To mark the milestone, the company will kick off a series of activities across its headquarters and global offices to highlight the developments made but also the strategy to drive further innovation in a rapidly changing industry.
Utimaco was founded by Horst Görtz in 1983 as a general application software company through the acquisition of the computer center company Utilisation des Machines Comptables and renamed Uti-maco software.
In the following years, Görtz laid the foundations for Utimaco’s IT security business by introducing the PC-based data security system SAFE-MEN at CeBIT. Today, Utimaco has over 550 global employees and headquarters in Aachen, Germany and Campbell, USA. The company’s UK office is in London.
For the past 20 years, Utimaco’s focus has been on on-premises and more recently cloud-based hardware security modules (HSMs). These HSMs enable the key generation, data protection and identity management that secure our digital lives.
Another key element of Utimaco’s solution portfolio is telecommunication compliance solutions used by governments and companies around the world. As it has grown, the company has made strategic acquisitions and expanded to encompass key management, PKI and Public Warning Systems.
The company’s founder retired from an active role in the company in 2005, but he remains a figure in the wider cybersecurity industry through his Horst Görtz Security Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German IT industry.
Since 2019, Utimaco has been led by its current CEO, Stefan Auerbach (pictured above with Görtz).
Auerbach said, “We are all incredibly proud to have reached this stage of our journey. We are now a global company on a very rapid growth trajectory, but more importantly the cybersecurity marketplace knows the name Utimaco.
“We have become a mark of trust throughout the world, and when companies are looking to create or improve upon security solutions, they know that we have everything they need and will always be on the cutting edge of security technology.”