Practical Challenges of Partner Data Exchange, Explored

Costs can quickly escalate for you and your partners when multiple vendors are needed to accommodate differing infrastructures, policies and software. Add to that varying security requirements and the scenario can soon become an integration nightmare or worse yet… a deal breaker.

In response to the many challenges, a security solution is needed that serves the needs of all partners without hampering productivity, adding costs, requiring set-up time or disrupting operations. It must offer flexibility and seamless integration into any environment and offer guaranteed protection at the end points of the data exchange— outside the extended enterprise.

Contingency Access

PKWARE helps maintain control of organizational data with contingency key capabilities. Contingency key processing ensures that whatever is encrypted is accessible both for the user and the enterprise. This enables the enterprise to meet the needs of auditors, compliance officers, or regulators to inspect or recover encrypted data - even if a passphrase is forgotten or a decryption key lost.

Support for Multiple Security Formats

The support of both ZIP and OpenPGP within a single application allows enterprises to standardize on PKWARE SecureZIP PartnerLink for all of their data security needs while still meeting business partner requirements. Organizations can spend even less money on providers and maintain or even increase the IT benefits. Enterprise needs can be sustained and proper protection of PII will better manage the risk of exposure. This flexibility and interoperability, without the loss of control or unnecessary compromise, yields direct and indirect rewards to users and partners alike.

Technologically Adaptive

Incorporating SecureZIP PartnerLink into a processing protocol will not impair productivity or require alterations in routine. As an application, SecureZIP PartnerLink:

• Works compatibly across many computing platforms, regardless of the operating systems used in the process or the number of circumstances and variables involved
• Functions seamlessly whether data is transported via automated scripts on a mainframe or sent “interactively” from desktops that call up an encryption program as needed
• Uses both public-key infrastructure and passphrases in the encryption-decryption process
• Offers an authentication option to identify instances of tampering

Conflicting Security Standards and Policies

Neither key management nor policy administration is required of partners. PKWARE Policy Manager functionality enables organizations to lock down encryption controls to reflect their data security policies and practices in a manner that users cannot circumvent. Administrators can create and manage multiple SecureZIP policies via the familiar Microsoft Management Console (MMC) providing more flexibility with less effort, ensuring adherence to organizational encryption policies.