Best Disruption
EuroCloud Award 2026 ·
Winner of the Best Disruption category at the EuroCloud Summit 2026 in Cologne, elected by the summit participants after a top-three nomination. Organised by EuroCloud Deutschland_eco e.V.
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Awards
Prizes VORNAC has received for the platform, with the awarding body and date.
Best of Technology 2026
WirtschaftsWoche, Cybersecurity category ·
Finalist in the Cybersecurity category, awarded the rating Excellent. Fraunhofer ISI is the award's scientific partner.
Winners pageCoverage
Reports, interviews and trade-journal articles about VORNAC in specialist and business media, newest first.
CIO
Wenn der KI-Agent zum Pentester wird
Analysis of continuous AI-driven pentesting: Arthur Raess on the snapshot trap of the annual pentest, operation on German infrastructure, evidence for NIS2 and DORA.
Computerwoche
Wenn der KI-Agent zum Pentester wird
Feature on VORNAC's approach: continuous pentesting with a proprietary model and no external AI services, from a German cloud or on premises, instead of point-in-time tests.
et Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen
Vom Messpunkt zum Steuerpunkt: Die neue Angriffsfläche der Verteilnetze
Why section 14a of the German Energy Industry Act turns the grid connection from a metering point into a control point, where the attack surface behind the smart meter gateway emerges and why annual penetration tests no longer provide proof of effectiveness.
Computerwoche
IT-Security und KI: Warum es auf die Governance ankommt
Report on the IT and Cloud Security 2026 roundtable with André Feigenbutz on the offensive use of AI and its growing role in blue teaming.
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
Ihr KI-Agent ist so kreativ wie ein Hacker
Profile of the Heidelberg company: Arthur Raess and André Feigenbutz train their agent on behaviour rather than knowledge, drawing on 20 years in the hacker and IT scene.
Our publications
Papers and articles from the company, citable with date and author.
Company at a glance
Company profile and facts for free use in editorial content.
Company profile
VORNAC GmbH, based in Heidelberg, develops a platform for continuous, autonomous penetration testing. An AI-driven agent tests production systems with real attack techniques, chains vulnerabilities into attack paths and delivers audit-ready reports with reproducible evidence within hours. Operation and data storage take place exclusively in German data centres. Customers are regulated companies that have to provide evidence under NIS2, DORA, KRITIS, TISAX and ISO/IEC 27001. VORNAC was founded in 2025 by André Feigenbutz and Arthur Raess, is a member of TeleTrusT Bundesverband IT-Sicherheit e.V. and a partner of the BSI's Alliance for Cyber Security.
One-liner
VORNAC GmbH, Heidelberg: platform for continuous, autonomous penetration testing with audit-ready evidence for regulated companies, operated exclusively in German data centres.
Facts
- Company
- VORNAC GmbH
- Founded
- 2025 in Heidelberg, Germany
- Founders and managing directors
- André Feigenbutz, Arthur Raess
- Registered office
- Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Ring 5, 69124 Heidelberg
- Commercial register
- HRB 757584, Amtsgericht Mannheim
- Services
- Continuous pentesting, assumed breach simulation, CTEM, OT pentesting
- Data residency
- German data centres run by German operators only
- Memberships
- TeleTrusT Bundesverband IT-Sicherheit e.V., Alliance for Cyber Security (BSI)
- Seal
- IT Security made in Germany (TeleTrusT)
Press kit
Logos, founder photo and documents. Please do not distort, recolour or crop the logo.
Speakers
The founders are available for interviews, background briefings and guest articles.
Press contact
Journalists can reach us at presse@vornac.com. We arrange interviews with the founders, background briefings on continuous penetration testing, figures and images, and usually reply on the same working day.
Angelina Deibert
Founders Associate, VORNAC GmbH
presse@vornac.com +49 6221 647 95 25
Write to presse@vornac.com