Utimaco

Utimaco is a company active in the sector of cybersecurity and compliance solutions, with headquarters in Aachen, Germany, and Campbell, California, USA.

Utimaco's product portfolio includes: In mid-1983, Horst Görtz acquired the computer centre company Utilisation des Machines Comptables, and renamed it uti-maco software GmbH (an abbreviation of the original name).

[6] Until 1998, further subsidiaries were founded in Austria and Belgium,[7] France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway,[8] as well as in Sweden and Finland,[9] and the US company Mergent International was acquired.

[17][18] In 2012, Sophos conducted squeeze-out proceedings against the minority shareholders of Utimaco and delisted the company from the stock market.

[18] In the same year, the annual general meeting amended the Articles of Association and transferred the registered headquarters from Oberursel to Aachen.

[19] In 2011, Utimaco faced allegations of supplying Lawful Interception Management Systems (LIMS) to repressive regimes such as Iran and Syria, raising ethical concerns when their products were used by Iranian authorities to detain and torture a university student.

[28] In April 2023, Utimaco acquired conpal GmbH, a provider of IT security systems for protection of private data and authentication.