Utimaco Positioned in the Leaders’ Quadrant of the Mobile Data Protection 2008 Magic Quadrant

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Foxboro, Mass. US/ Oberursel, September 29th, 2008 / Utimaco – The Data Security Company, today announced that Gartner has positioned the company in the Leaders Quadrant of the Mobile Data Protection 2008 Magic Quadrant.

“We are very ecited about our inclusion in Gartner’s Leader Quadrant. This placement confirms that our comprehensive product suite, road map and mission are in lockstep with customers’ requirements,” said Martin Wuelfert, chief executive officer, Utimaco. “Our financial results continue to be very strong and we partner with some of the world’s largest and best-known technology brands to deliver true customer value.”

According to Gartner, "Leaders have products that work well for Gartner clients in small and large deployments. They have long-term road maps that follow and/or influence Gartner's vision of the developing needs of buyers in the market. Leaders make their competitors' sales staffs nervous and force competitors' technical staffs to follow their lead. Their MDP products are well-known to clients, and they encounter little resistance in selling their products."

Utimaco brings tremendous value to enterprise customers through key management systems that ensure its flagship product, SafeGuard Enterprise, is highly interoperable with other systems and easy to use. Utimaco also boasts partnerships with top vendors including Microsoft, Seagate, Intel and Lenovo to make it easy for enterprise customers to ensure end point systems are highly secure while reducing the total cost of ownership associated with supporting multiple end point agents.

Holding FIPS (140-2 Levels 1–4) and CC Certifications (EAL4) means that Utimaco has the critical security certifications necessary for organizations that need a vendor who can prove their solutions are of the highest caliber. Utimaco also supports multiple platforms including Linux, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Windows XP and Vista.

For more information about the Magic Quadrant, current Gartner clients may go to http://www.gartner.com. Source: “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection, 1H08,” John Girard and Ray Wagner, 23rd September 2008.
For more information about Utimaco – The Data Security Company,
go to http://www.utimaco.com.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted Sept. 23, 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Utimaco Safeware – The Data Security Company.
Celebrating 25 years in business, Utimaco is a leading global provider of data security solutions, enabling mid- to large-size organizations to safeguard their data assets against intentional or accidental data loss, and to comply with privacy laws. Utimaco’s complete range of data security solutions provide full 360 degree data protection for data at rest, data in motion and data in use. Utimaco offers its customers comprehensive on-site support via a world-wide network of certified partners and subsidiaries. Utimaco Safeware, with headquarters in Oberursel, near Frankfurt, Germany, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN DE0007572406). For more information please visit www.utimaco.com.

Additional information:
Utimaco Safeware AG –
The Data Security Company.
http://www.utimaco.de/press
http://www.utimaco.com
Rieke Bönisch
Tel: +49 (0)6171 88 – 12 10
E-Mail: rieke.boenisch@utimaco.de

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This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available upon request from Utimaco.
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 23 September 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.