Our client is one of the 10 largest banks in the United States, operating thousands of branch locations, home mortgage stores, and other offices. A specific division of the bank operates as a full-service financial institution that serves automobile companies and new car dealers, handling financing, retail loans, leasing programs, and customer credit applications.

The bank instituted a comprehensive plan to protect all personal customer information, in part to comply with GLBA (Gramm-Leach Bliley Act) requirements, which mandate confidentiality of client information. The corporate compliance guidelines were extensive and extended to information stored on hard drives and in transit, including communications with external customers, prospects, and vendors.

The division needed a solution that would enable them to meet corporate mandates and enable strong security quickly, easily, and most importantly, cost-effectively. They had tough security requirements to meet with limited resources and an aggressive deployment schedule. In addition, the chosen solution had to work within the existing infrastructure of an extensive external network of clients and partners. Therefore, the solution needed to be user-friendly and easy for customers to adopt.

The division chose SecureZIP to meet their security requirements and was deployed throughout the organization in less than a week. SecureZIP helped the division gain regulatory compliance, along with the added ROI benefits of reducing file size through compression—even after information was strongly encrypted.

To solve their need for increased security among partners, the division is leveraging the free ZIP Reader by PKWARE to enable secure communication. The reader enables partners to decrypt files, regardless of their IT infrastructures. Using the free ZIP Reader, customers don’t have to purchase a security product in order to open secure files.

Using SecureZIP, the division is now able to ensure that files transferred between employees within the organization, and with external partners and other third parties, are secure. PKWARE enabled the division to quickly achieve enterprise-class security through data-centric security.