Summary Customer
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Company Background
Our client provides healthcare to nearly 2 million people across the Midwest. Company products include PPO, POS, indemnity plans, as well as vision care, dental, life, managed drug plans, and disability insurance. The company also provides nearly 200,000 Medicare recipients with supplemental coverage.
Challenges and Requirements
The company was providing confidential patient health information to insurance brokers of all sizes and recognized that they needed to enable secure data transfer with select business partners. While they already had secure communications set up with larger brokers, they also needed a secure, cost-effective method to transmit the data to smaller brokers. The data they needed to secure originated on their UNIX server and was sent to an automated files transfer department for uploading to a web server. The insurance brokers then downloaded the information onto their desktops.Competitive Landscape
The company initially looked to their core system software provider for the security they required, but they were unable to offer the required encryption capabilities. They then consulted with Gartner analysts who suggested SecureZIP. Patrick Townsend was the other option considered. After evaluating both solutions, the company selected SecureZIP because it provided more features and a higher level of functionality, including the ability to compress files.The Solution - SecureZIP
SecureZIP met the company’s requirements by providing them an interoperable, cost- effective solution. With SecureZIP, data is encrypted on their server, ensuring the information is protected throughout the entire transfer process. The recipient easily unzips and decrypts the data on their desktops using PKWARE’s free ZIP Reader. When the company purchased SecureZIP, they had one server running multiple environments. Two years later, they began migrating the server environments to multiple physical servers. They needed to mirror the SecureZIP solution in their development, pre-production, and production environments, expanding the solution even further. This proved to be a simple implementation due to SecureZIP's scalability, meeting the company’s growing data security needs. |
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