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Summary


Company Background
Our client is an independent Federal Government agency established to regulate civilian use of nuclear materials. Over 3,000 employees work to support the agency’s primary mission of protecting public health and safety, as well as protecting the environment from the effects of radiation from nuclear materials, reactors, and waste facilities.

Challenges and Requirements
The agency handles various types of sensitive information, including intellectual property, employee information, and other proprietary information that is not intended for public release. This information is being exchanged both internally across desktops and externally with other partners.

The agency was required to meet the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance mandates for data security. This required them to develop, document, and implement an agency-wide program to provide information security for the information and information systems that support the operations and assets of the agency. In addition to FISMA compliance, they also needed a solution that was FIPS 140-2 compliant, supported secure file shredding, and could be administered centrally to enforce compliance.

Competitive Landscape
The agency was already using WinZip®, but could not consider using it to meet their security requirements. WinZip does not have any administrative capabilities, which was extremely important to the agency.

Government agencies are required to evaluate a minimum of 3 alternative solutions. Therefore, the agency also reviewed PGP®, Sigaba®, File Assurity®, and Tumbleweed®. SecureZIP was chosen because it fulfilled both the agency’s compression and encryption requirements, and also because SecureZIP was the only product that could assist with FIPS 140-2 compliance.

The Solution - SecureZIP
Using SecureZIP’s policy manager, system administrators can define how end-users apply encryption, allowing the agency to maintain control over its employees. To help meet the stringent security standards imposed on governmental agencies, PKWARE developed a special version of SecureZIP for the agency, which incorporates a FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption engine from RSA® Security.

SecureZIP also enables the use of Verisign certificates, another important requirement. The agency deployed SecureZIP on 1,800 desktops throughout the organization, including stand-alone regional locations, in one month.



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