Arctic Wolf opens first European Security Operations Centre

Arctic Wolf has opened its first European Security Operations Center (SOC) in Frankfurt, Germany, marking the company's official business expansion to Germany and the DACH region.

The opening of the company's first European SOC comes on the heels of rapid growth in the EMEA region, beginning with the establishment of its European headquarters in the United Kingdom in June and continued growth in the Nordics and the Benelux regions.  Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners was an early investor in Arctic Wolf and continue to support the company in its global expansion. 

To lead the company’s German operations, Arctic Wolf has appointed Dr. Sebastian Schmerl as director of Security Services for EMEA. Schmerl brings over 15 years of cybersecurity experience, with deep expertise in delivering cyber defense services for IT, OT, and Cloud domains and building enterprise SOCs for global brands including Daimler, Volkswagen, Bosch, Datev, and Bayer. Most recently, he served as the head of Cyber Defense and Industrial Security at Computacenter, building and operating customer SOCs and managing incident response and risk mitigation strategies.

With the opening of the Frankfurt-based SOC, Arctic Wolf customers across the globe will have full flexibility in where and how their native data is stored and accessed, ensuring alignment with their compliance initiatives related to local and international data governance regulations. EMEA customers will continue to benefit from Arctic Wolf’s Security Operations Cloud at scale, while addressing the specific data sovereignty needs of the region. The company plans to hire 50 regional employees over the next 12 months across security, sales, and operations, to support increasing customer needs. 

No other company can deliver world-class security operations to customers of all sizes at cloud--native scale and speed, as an “easy button” solution that also guides customers throughout their security journey to end cyber risk. The Arctic Wolf Security Operations cloud brings much-needed simplicity, ease of use, and accessibility to security operations as companies look for technologies and services that act as a force multiplier to their existing resources even if they have little or no security experience or staff. 

Arctic Wolf employs a 100% partner-centric go-to-market model, which has cemented the company as the cybersecurity partner-of-choice for more than 750 solution providers worldwide, including Blue Technologies, sysmind, and Cristie Data GmbH in Germany. Arctic Wolf’s award-winning channel program provides opportunities for security-minded and cloud-focused resale partners to forge a deep, strategic relationship with the company and position themselves at the forefront of the security operations market.