Competitive Solutions

  PKWARE SecureZIP Data21 ZIP/390 ASPG Megacryption IBM Encryption Facility
Native z/OS Implementation yes yes1 yes  
X.509 ZIP Format yes      
OpenPGP Format yes yes2 yes yes2
Other Platforms yes   yes3  
Contingency Key yes      
1 Compression& symmetric encryption is native to z/OS, PKI encryption is offloaded to a Windows server
2 Not natively on z/OS – Data21 offloads to Windows server, IBM EF is Java
3 Windows, Linux, Unix OpenPGP support

Alternative Solutions

  SecureZIP + FTP FTP FTPS/sFTP MFT
Compression yes yes1
Security:
Transmission Level		 yes2   yes yes
Security:
Computer to Computer		 yes2   yes
Security:
Data Centric 		yes      
1 Most MFTs provide some basic level of compression
2 Implicit through data centric security