Success Story: SecureZIP® Delivers Ubiquitous Encryption Solution to Protect Sensitive Employee Data

Company Background
Our client is a consumer products company with one of the largest and strongest portfolios of trusted household brands. The company is as strong internationally as it is domestically, with employees located in 81 countries.

Challenges and Requirements
The employee services division of the company manages all of the internal HR, payroll, training, and travel expense systems globally for all employees. Historically, the company outsourced some or all of its HR functions.

As increasingly more employee data was being sent to third-party providers, it became clear that a standardized encryption solution was needed across the organization, in order to protect sensitive information and ensure the company remained in compliance with various government regulations.

However, many of the encryption solutions being used internally were not versatile enough to work across different computing platforms. These systems were also often incompatible with the wide variety of systems run by third-party vendors. The company needed a solution that was not proprietary to a single provider.

Competitive Landscape
The company’s information services division looked at several encryption solutions, including WinZip® and PGP®. They also researched best practices with Gartner analysts before deciding on SecureZIP.

The Solution – SecureZIP
SecureZIP was the only solution that met all three of the company’s primary requirements:

1. It provided industry-standard encryption
2. It was a public standards-based solution
3. It was capable of being deployed across all required platforms (Windows®, HP-UX, and IBM® zSeries®)

SecureZIP also supported the organization's future aspirations of implementing PKI, because it supports certificate-based encryption and digital signing.

SecureZIP has enabled the HR department to exchange encrypted email attachments with other departments, remote offices, and third-party providers quickly and easily. By adding SecureZIP to the server environment, PDF reports queried from the SAP database are now encrypted.

An added benefit for the company is that SecureZIP also compresses attachments by up to 95 percent, conserving bandwidth and storage space.

For special projects, such as mergers and acquisitions, when large volumes of employee data is exchanged, the company now sends encrypted files, rather than copying personal employee information onto a CD for hand-delivery. The new process is both more efficient and more secure.

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