Ergon Informatik (Airlock)

Ergon Informatik is a Zurich-based software company, founded in 1984, that built the first online banking system in Switzerland for Credit Suisse — work that became the origin of its security product line, Airlock. Airlock has been on the market since 2002 and has evolved into a “Secure Access Hub” that combines a web application firewall, customer identity and access management (cIAM) with strong customer authentication, and API/microservice security into a single platform rather than three separate point products.

Ergon states that Airlock protects more than 20 million active digital identities and 30,000 backend systems across 600-plus customers worldwide, with particular depth in Swiss and European financial services, where its authentication capabilities are used for regulatory-grade strong customer authentication. Ergon itself employs roughly 325 people and generates on the order of $40 million in annual revenue, operating as an independent, privately held Swiss company with no disclosed venture funding.

Airlock’s differentiation is less about novel technology than about pedigree: it was built and hardened inside one of the most security-scrutinized sectors (banking) rather than adapted for it after the fact. That gives it a credible, decades-deep track record for regulated enterprises, though as a consolidated WAF-plus-cIAM-plus-API-security hub it competes with established access-management and WAF vendors rather than creating a new security category.