A current WinZip® user, the company was struggling with the lack of administrative capabilities the product offered for controlling employee encryption functions. The company considered several other IT security vendors, including Tumbleweed® and WinZip for the desktop and Townsend® and PGP® for server.

The company purchased SecureZIP Enterprise Edition for i5/OS, Windows desktop, as well as for Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers. SecureZIP provided a single solution that met all of the requirements listed above. Information placed on all forms of removable media is protected, satisfying a corporate-wide security initiative. Using the policy manager function of SecureZIP allowed IT administrators to centrally configure and control which employees were and were not able to encrypt information.

In addition, because the company uses passphrases to encrypt sensitive data, the contingency key functionality of SecureZIP proved to be an invaluable tool. It ensured that data could be accessed at any time, even if a passphrase was lost or stolen, a critical factor when considering SEC regulations. While using contingency key allowed data to be accessed at any time, the company also wanted to increase the complexity of the passphrases they were using for encryption. SecureZIP offers passphrase hardening, which allowed IT administrators to set regulations on factors that increased passphrase strength, such as length of the passphrase and special character requirements.

Finally, our client was pleased to discover that SecureZIP provided them with one solution that was compatible across all computing platforms. The company was in the process of executing an organization- wide desktop refresh, looking for a single solution that would meet their needs, including Vista compatibility, on over 380,000 desktops. SecureZIP provided a single solution, providing both encryption and compression needs, allowing the company to replace WinZip and others and use one universal product throughout the organization.