Germany-based, Brigther AI offers advanced redaction software for images & video data (so they can be safely used across borders or even in public without raising privacy concerns). The startups does this with “Precision Blur” to detect & blurs objects (e.g. face, license plate, characters), as well as “Deep Natural Anonymization” to detect faces & generate a synthetic replacement (that reflects the original attributes) – via cloud & rest API (prices start from €80p.m. for 500 images or 120min video). Brighter AI is already used to generate anonymized footage in e.g. a) automotive & mapping (e.g. autonomous driving data, vehicle & road data, dashcam footage) (clients incl. Valeo: “for improvement of lane & sign detection...

Germany-based, Secfix helps SMEs get certified in the security standard that they need to meet – in particular ISO 27001, but also TISAX, GDPR & SOC 2. What is ISO 27001? the most popular IT ‘seal of approval’ in Europe (& beyond). Whilst mostly voluntary, it is mandatory in some industries & countries e.g. in Germany, critical industries (KRITIS) must (according to §8a BSIG) implement ISO 27001 (or IT Grundshutz by BSI) ISO 27001 vs. SOC2? ISO 27001 focuses on establishing & maintaining an effective IT security mgmt system, while SOC2 merely evaluates the effectiveness of controls related to specific problem areas (e.g. security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality & privacy) TISAX? developed by the ENX Association, it is...