Our client is a global payment and financial services company, conducting business in two primary segments. One segment provides money transfer services, money orders, and bill payment services to consumers. The other segment provides financial institutions with payment processing services, primarily official check outsourcing services and money orders for sale to their customers. Overall, the company provides consumers and businesses with these global payment services through a network of over 125,000 agent locations.

The company transfers customer financial data to banking institutions and agents daily via FTP. Previously, they were using WinZip® on the desktop to encrypt transactions carrying customer account numbers during transmission.

When the company decided to migrate their FTP servers to a Linux environment, they realized they would have to find a new encryption solution because WinZip does not operate on a Linux platform.

Because the company sends data to thousands of customers, it was critical to retain the ability to use compression. Another key requirement was cross-platform interoperability. The solution also had to be non-invasive, easy to use, and cost effective for the recipient.

SecureZIP not only enables cross platform interoperability, but is also easy to use and offers command line functionality for use with the company’s Linux servers. In addition, the company’s largest business partner, a SecureZIP user, highly recommended the product. SecureZIP met all of the company’s initial requirements and made exchanging information with their largest business partner even easier.