Our client is a prominent international bank, serving more than 20 million consumer clients around the world.

The bank had experienced a security breach when a tape containing unencrypted sensitive customer information was lost in transit to a consumer credit bureau. While they already had an encryption initiative underway, the breach accelerated the project. The bank’s immediate need was to encrypt the data being saved to tapes from their z/OS mainframe. This data was being exchanged monthly with their largest trading partner.

PartnerLink provided the bank with a framework for exchanging data securely with partners. In addition to efficient implementation, the bank was influenced to select PartnerLink because of its acceptance from other business partners. The bank’s largest business partner was already using SecureZIP, allowing the companies to begin securely exchanging information immediately. In the future, the bank can easily extend PartnerLink to enable the secure exchange of sensitive data with other business partners, at no cost to those partners.