Karsten Klohs

Karsten Klohs, in his role as Director of Business Development Security Engineering at achelos GmbH, is at the forefront of advancing the company's expertise in embedded security solutions. With a deep understanding of the evolving landscape of digital identity protection, Karsten leverages his extensive experience to help clients navigate the complexities of modern security ecosystems. His focus lies in expanding achelos’s security engineering capabilities, supporting developers across industries—ranging from telecommunications to embedded systems—in implementing, testing, evaluating, and certifying their security solutions.

A key aspect of Karsten’s work involves guiding projects that utilize industry standards such as Common Criteria, ensuring that embedded security modules—like smart cards, secure elements, and hardware security modules—meet rigorous certification requirements. His expertise in program analysis, embedded systems, and information security enables him to assist developers in integrating secure authentication mechanisms into mobile devices and IoT environments, where secure elements and integrated secure hardware play a crucial role.

Karsten’s proficiency in programming languages such as C and Java, combined with his knowledge of Linux-based platforms, positions him well to support the development and certification of secure embedded solutions. By fostering collaboration between development teams and security certification bodies, he helps streamline the path from concept to certified product, ensuring robust protection for digital identities in increasingly interconnected ecosystems. His strategic approach not only enhances achelos’s offerings but also reinforces the industry’s shift toward more sophisticated, interconnected security architectures—where mobile devices, embedded systems, and secure hardware work seamlessly to safeguard sensitive information.