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Summary


Company Background
Our client is a global pharmaceutical company, producing some of the most well-known consumer and animal health products. By collaborating with a complex network of partners, the company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets advanced drug therapies to hospitals, doctors, and consumers.

Challenges and Requirements
Because the company operates globally, they had several key data security issues within their organization. The company has employees using laptops to access sensitive data, such as patient health information, research findings, and other intellectual property. They also have employees working in lesser developed areas in the world where the risk of laptop theft is very high. The company was very concerned with the loss or misuse of information resulting from the potential theft of laptops and removable media devices containing trade secrets. They needed to ensure their research and client information was secure regardless of where the laptop or other removable media resided.

In order to facilitate collaboration with all of its entities, the company sends data via CDs, tapes, disk arrays, and FTP to other company locations around the world. They needed a way to secure that data regardless of the transmission method. Operating on a global scale, they encountered multiple government security mandates, the most restrictive in Japan and Europe.

The Japanese government requires any company operating in Japan to utilize passphrase encryption to protect all sensitive employee and customer data that is sent attached to emails. This resulted in a need for the company to acquire a solution that would enable desktop email encryption for their subsidiary in Japan.

The European Union’s “safe harbor” laws were developed to assure EU companies that the organizations they share information with provide adequate data protection. Organizations in the United States who wish to comply with the safe harbor framework must protect personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. This enables the companies to confidently and securely exchange information without experiencing interruptions or delays.

The Solution - SecureZIP
Utilizing a combination of SecureZIP for Windows desktop and UNIX, the company was able to solve each of their data security issues easily and in a cost-effective manner. SecureZIP for Windows desktop enables them to encrypt sensitive data when it is stored on laptops rather than encrypting the entire hard drive. SecureZIP’s data-centric technology protects the data itself, so even if the laptop is lost of stolen, the data is protected.

SecureZIP also enables the company to meet Japanese government’s data security requirements and EU’s safe harbor laws. Although Japan had originally standardized on WinZip®, they chose SecureZIP as an alternative because it enables passphrase-based encryption for email attachments. To comply with EU’s safe harbor laws, the company leverages SecureZIP for Windows desktop combined with SecureZIP for UNIX. They are able to encrypt all of the information they are sending to their European locations utilizing existing data transfer and processing methods.



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