PartnerLink: Solving the Challenges of Data Exchange With Partners

Every minute of every day presents the opportunity for a data mishap. A security breach, as well as lost, stolen or even compromised records triggers negative exposure that quickly equates to forfeited sales, legal fees, disclosure expenses and a host of remediation costs. The fallout can result in years of struggle to recoup reputation and repair a brand in the marketplace.

Exposure is further amplified as organizations are required to exchange sensitive information with partners across the globe, outside the enterprise, and with varying security policies and data security formats. Best practices dictate that data shared with business partners should be protected as it is transmitted and wherever it resides.

Data exchange is often a critical part of daily operations and can involve ten to tens of thousands of external partners; increasing complexity and costs and often presenting a significant barrier to doing business.

The wide variety of today’s computing platforms and operating systems make data exchange with external partners and customers even more problematic. Companies need to ensure that information won’t be lost, stolen, or exposed once it leaves the network. To remain profitable, organizations are forced to manage costs, use of resources and disruption to existing processes while providing as much flexibility and accommodation to as many partners as possible.

The SecureZIP PartnerLink solution eliminates both operational and economic obstacles. An organization becomes a sponsor of the security initiative, acquires a SecureZIP PartnerLink license and distributes the solution to partners at no cost. The SecureZIP Solution supports ZIP and OpenPGP security formats to further remove barriers to data sharing among partners--without sacrificing control or security outside of the enterprise. This ability to consolidate to a single vendor with compression capabilities and support for multiple encryption formats, even across computing platforms, solves the data exchange challenge.