genua is a German IT security company that develops firewalls, gateways and secure network access for public authorities, organisations handling classified information and operators of critical infrastructure. The portfolio includes the genugate and genuscreen firewalls, the genuwall industrial firewall, VPN appliances, the genubox solution for secure remote maintenance, data diodes and genusphere for zero-trust access to applications. The products are delivered mainly as hardware appliances, with virtual versions for virtual machines and cloud environments, software clients for mobile working and accompanying services such as support and updates.
genua is headquartered in Kirchheim near Munich and has been part of the Bundesdruckerei Group since 2020. Because the products run as appliances or virtual machines in the customer's own network or in a cloud environment of its choosing, the customer decides where traffic and configuration data are processed. The software is proprietary rather than open source. For European public bodies and critical-infrastructure operators, genua is a firewall and remote-access supplier headquartered in the European Union.