140sp811. Computer Security, Staines. Utimaco Safeware Success Story: Data Warehousing, Financial Services Solutions Telecommunications / Media - Sybase Inc. In response to tough new telecom regulations for data retention and on requests by several telecom customers for integrated lawful interception and data retention solutions, Utimaco partnered with Sybase to develop a new purpose-built data retention solution.
Understanding Market Challenge and Opportunity Throughout the world laws have been introduced stipulating the responsibility of service providers for data retention purposes. Outlined within the laws is the process for storing call detail records and subscriber data for periods up to 24 months, and in addition responding in a timely manner to ad-hoc inquiries by law enforcement agencies.
Data is then used to discover patterns of behavior to identify and trace suspects, uncover social networks among terrorists, or to collect admissible evidence for court proceedings. Utimaco Safeware AG (USA:GR) Stock Quote & Analysis. British surveillance software linked to brutal Syrian regime. Over 3,500 Syrian revolutionaries have been killed by Assad’s forces since March.
A British company has been implicated in the sale of state-of-the-art spying technology to Syria, a joint investigation by the Bureau and Newsnight can reveal. The technology, which enabled the Syrian government to manage a system that could allow the interception and archiving of email and telephone communications, was sold to the regime by Italian company Area. However, the Bureau has learned that vital surveillance and telecom-tapping equipment that formed part of the package sold by Area, to the Syrian government was made by Utimaco, which is part of Sophos, a British company based in Oxfordshire. It is alleged that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime either did or intended to use this British software to target activists who have been uploading footage of civil uprisings to the internet.
Utimaco. For more than 25 years Utimaco has been a provider of data security solutions.
Since 1 July 2009 Utimaco Safeware AG has been part of the Sophos Group, a world leader in IT security and data protection with headquarters in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. While Utimaco data security products are now distributed by Sophos, the business units "Lawful Interception and Monitoring Solutions" and "Hardware Security Module" form Utimaco’s operating businesses. Utimaco‘s Business Unit “Lawful Interception & Monitoring Solutions“ located in Aachen, Germany, develops solutions for lawful interception and data retention and manufactures solutions to protect electronic data. Since 1994 Utimaco has been providing lawful interception systems for mobile and fixed network operators and Internet service providers.
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