Company History

1993

Foundation of HKM as a system house

1997

System provider for publishing houses and law firms with their focus on insolvency law. Management at Interim.

2001

Focus on the conception, design and integration of IT systems in data centers.

2004

First system solutions for intellectual property protection (Information Lost Protection / Data Leakage Prevention)

2009

Proving the value of Data Leakage Prevention through the scandal in the 2007 Formula1 season. First forensically proven incident of illegal data leakage.

2014

Foundation of HKM Consulting GmbH as a consulting company for cyber security systems to secure intellectual property.

2015

Portfolio expansion: Compliance to Code. Bundling of services for data classification, SIEM, IDS, system monitoring as well as operational structures for next-level SOC.

2016

Portfolio extension: Platform agnostic EIM – Enterprise Integrity Management

2018

Portfolio expansion: Security appliances for EIM and Compliance to Code. Automated roll-out via remote management

2020

Portfolio expansion: management of IoT components, realization of ISO 27001 controls through Enterprise Integrity Management

2021

Portfolio expansion: roll-out portal for security appliances and training portal & eLearning

Team and Corporate Culture

“To live is to learn for life.”

This motto is perhaps the best way to describe the corporate culture at HKM Consulting. The common, permanent striving for new solutions for IT security is our ultimate goal. Offering our customers the best possible solutions is something we prove every day.

The team welcomes all who find their values reflected in these goals and who want to contribute as a person with experience and expertise. We value team members who bring a balance of “listening” and “doing” to solutions and projects. Every component that is improved helps us become better together. What helps us become stronger, strengthens our customers.

We promote smart and creative work models, because we understand the increasing importance of work-life opportunities. In doing so, we observe an increase in creativity and higher satisfaction in our team. This in turn leads to an increase in efficiency.

Testimonials

“Klaus is one of the most reliable, dedicated and versatile managers I’ve ever encountered. From the moment we started to interact he had a broad impact on resourcing and recruiting process in IT security business.
He is the most customer focused person I’ve ever seen while he is perfectly able to take a variety of roles in his hands on manner from presales to project management to professional services consulting to work as well as building excellent business development relationship.
By his enthusiastic and inspiring spirit he managed all activities effectively, in parallel and to absolute customer satisfaction.
I can recommend Klaus for any role that requires a visionary senior manager with exceptional technical expertise. His skills in establishing meaningful business relationships are excellent. His wise choice and inspiring motivation of team members is legendary.

I´m looking forward to work in business-projects with him.
Thank you for your attention. If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact us.”

Mario Domsel, CEO Domsel Consulting

 

“Klaus is a very knowledgeable and talented technical sales consultant and business development manager, with vast experience of working in many different areas. He is enthusiastic about his work and as a specialist brings natural authority in customer meetings and as a public speaker. Klaus demonstrates strong ethical values and I admire the personal standards he sets for the quality of his work. I would recommend Klaus for any role that requires a senior, sophisticated, technically superb team builder and manager in an international business environment. It was always a pleasure to work with him and I would like to interact with him again. For further reference, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Henning Ogberg, Member of the Executive Board at eleven

 

“Klaus is an excellent, professional and highly organized consultant with a broad and in-deep knowledge in IT security. He is also a team player with superb soft skills and furthermore provides an intercultural competence and outstanding customer focus. He used his exceptional skills in communication and presentation for multiple lectures and keynotes at IT security summits. His tireless work ethic led by example as he and his small team covered a very broad region across diverse languages and cultures with a great deal of travel to ensure customer satisfaction and deployments were successful without fail. He succeeded at a number of large complex deployments in sophisticated customer environments and brought a level of passion for his work that made it a joy and pleasure to collaborate with him. I would like to work with Klaus again.

Michael Neumayr, Regional Manager at Websense

 

“Having worked closely with Klaus as a member of the Sales Engineering team, it’s with great pleasure that I write this endorsement. While in his leader role for the EMEA Sales Engineering team and right through to his role as CEMEA SE, I have come to greatly appreciated his willingness to share his knowledge and experience as well as to the mentoring and development of careers of those under his command. A true legend! On a personal note, Klaus creates and maintains an excellent rapport with all those he comes into contact with. In summary Klaus has been a true asset to the team and I would not hesitate to work with Klaus or to recommend him in future.

Uwe Hofmann, Senior Sales Engineer at SurfControl and Websense