Corporate overview

Cordsen Engineering GmbH (CE) is a privately held company located in the city of Seligenstadt / Germany within the greater Frankfurt Rhein-Main area, in a modern, secure facility of more than 1.500m². We are cleared to handle & process classified information, and our key personnel is cleared to Top Secret.

The company develops and manufactures a broad range of mission critical products – from rugged computers and peripherals – to a comprehensive range of TEMPEST equipment, and IT-Security products.

We provide high-technology products and services to government/military and commercial customers worldwide.

Our design team of the Rugged Product Division maintains a comprehensive design engineering capability, and can transform existing COTS products or system to achieve compliance with unique mechanical, electrical, or environmental requirements, tailored to MIL-STD-810F; MIL-STD-461D and others applicable standards. Our environmental tailoring process ensures, that system design and test criteria are tailored to environmental conditions within which material is to operate, and depending on the mission need statement and the operational requirements, we optimize cost and operational effectiveness.

We have a wide range of Standard Products, some with NATO Stocknumber, and our strength is custom design with rapid prototyping and production run.

Special know-how is available to optimize Lightning protection, including NEMP/HEMP of mission critical products and/or installations.

The TEMPEST Product Division is responsible for the continuing development of state-of-the-art COMSEC products iaw AMSG 720B. New equipment and/or performance upgrade is added to our standard product range continuously. Our design principle ensures a optimized cost of ownership, as upgrades and enhancements are possible within the standard design. We have HP as our strategic partner for the supply of all printer and scanner, as well as Workstation and Server.

Besides AMSG 720B, by far the most demanding requirement in COMSEC technology, we do of course offer all other emission standards, and again, we are geared to deliver customized solutions, even beyond AMSG 720B.

For mission critical application we do employ long life-cycle high reliability industrial SBC’s, and we have designed TEMPEST Workstations with a overall MTBF of > 100.000h, including NEMP/HEMP protection.

Our Encryption Product Division provides professional hard- and software solutions to multinational corporations, financial institutions and government. We have installed and maintain large multinational networks, including Link Encryption, Frame Relay, ATM (SONET up to 2.5Gbps) and VPN up to 1Gbps. We have designed sophisticated Access Control Systems employing authentication with biometric devices especially fingerprint technology, SSO, local and group encryption, electronic signature in combination with biometric authentication, PKI including trust center technology.

Our own developments are NetCrypt (Group encryption within a secure Network) and ELSIG (ELectronic SIGnature) where the authorisation will be defined by biometrics (fingerprint) and the electronic signature will be realised using asymmetric encryption or will be used in combination with a trust center and/or PKI to implement the Digital Electronic Signature.

ELSIG technology allows the production of a forgery proof ID-Card system with an authentic encrypted data set (personal data together with biometrics), like passport picture, signature and fingerprint, stored on a PDF417 barcode and/or MIFARE encoded smart card.

ELSIG supports on-line/off-line secure verification, and cost effective solutions are available yet secure, and forgery proof, due to sophisticated encryption and authentication processing. ELSIG supports data base systems like SQL-Server and Oracle.