About us
Cyber Security Specialists
IT District was founded in 2017 to implement cutting edge cyber security solutions for some of the largest companies in Switzerland. We were founded as a CyberArk implementation partner and our team has since grown to address the evolving needs of our customers. Today we focus on identity and network security and our customers are some of the largest Swiss and German enterprises in the Banking and Finance sectors, Logistics, Telecoms, Manufacturing, as well as public sector organisations.
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Years of Experience
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Security Engineers
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Client Engagements
Technology Partnerships

TRUSTED PARTNER OF THE LEADING IDENTITY SECURITY VENDORS
About us
Our Mission Is Your Security
Laser focused on identity security
Mission
We enhance resilience against cyber threats, enabling our clients to focus on their core strengths.
Vision
We are a leading partner in identity security, empowering business worldwide to strive in a secure digital future.
Strategy
Leveraging expert guidance and innovative, cloud-first technologies, we implement integrated solutions to protect our clients' digital identities.
User-centric approach
Every implementation and every integration is designed with your end-users in mind.
Best in class
We partner only with leading solutions to enable the highest quality services
Unmatched service and support
Our team exists to ensure YOU make the most out of YOUR security investments.
Team
Meet the Leadership Team
We are a dedicated group of individuals driven by our shared vision that identity and network security is the key to you sleeping well at night.

Simon Eicher
CEO & Founder

Mark Gustafson
COO

Jan-Patrick Vöhrs
Co-CTO

Valentin Mercier
Co-CTO

Peter Wrann
CSO

Eike Stratmann
CDO

Sebastian Chacon
Team Lead

Kirsten Heitmann
Team Lead
About us
Company Milestones
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2026
Palo Alto Networks Offering
Expanding our footprint in network security we have added Palo Alto Networks to our product offering. Palo Alto is currently in the process of acquiring CyberArk.
2025
Silverfort Partner
Recognising our clients' need to manage service accounts efficiently we partnered with Silverfort as the market leading solution, which complements our customers' PAM solutions to extend security to service accounts and allows them to extend MFA to systems where they were previously not able to.
2025
Infoblox Sapphire Partner
Having added two of Switzerland's most senior experts on network security and Infoblox in particular to our team we reached Infoblox Sapphire partner status.
2025
IT District Service Desk
We introduced a standardised CyberArk managed service to the market to bridge the gap between our support and time and material services and our service desk takes care of efficiently running our clients' ongoing operations and hygiene tasks on a cost-efficient 12 months rolling contract.
2024
Venafi partnership
Being responsible for client's critical security systems we saw the need to automate the certificate lifecycle management to prevent outages and started working with Venafi.
2024
ISO 27001 certification
With the expansion of our team and services our CISO led our ISO 27001 certification with the aim to document and audit our information security standards.
2023
24x7 Support Service
Introduced our 24x7 support service with support locations in Germany, Switzerland, and the USA.
2023
Sailpoint partnership
Our new CTO Jan-Patrick Vöhrs brought in IAM expertise and talent and one of our clients asked us to help them implement a global Sailpoint solution and this has set us on the path to build holistic identity security architectures for our customers.
2022
German office opened
We opened our Bremen office for our growing German client base and to hire local talent in Germany.
2020
1st CyberArk Managed Service Provider in Switzerland
Recognising our clients' need not just to implement, but to efficiently run their key security solutions we became the first CyberArk managed service provider in Switzerland and now have multiple customers who trust us with running their privileged access security programme.
2019
1st CyberArk Advanced Partner in Switzerland
Demonstrating a strong commitment to the mission of securing our clients most privileged accounts we became the first partner to attain the highest CyberArk partner status and have retained it to this day.
2018
1st CyberArk "Guardian" certified partner in Switzerland
Working with large corporate clients on CyberArk privileged access security implementations and on a CISO mandate the IT District leadership recognized the importance of continuous education and certifications in the context of a constantly evolving threat landscape.
2017
Founded
IT District was founded as the first dedicated CyberArk value added reseller in Switzerland and we started working with some of Switzerland's largest corporates.
FAQ
Common Questions
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