Leading IT Services Provider Secures External Data Exchange, Reduces Overall Data Center Costs

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Company Background

Our client is one of the largest securities and data processing firms in the country. The company provides customers with the knowledge and tools needed to succeed in the brokerage industry, focusing specifically on computer processing expertise to provide practical solutions designed to fit customer needs.

Challenges and Requirements

In their current operating environment, the company was using a method of secure FTP to transfer information from the mainframes within their data center. They realized that data leaving their facility was vulnerable and could end up unprotected in the wrong location. Secure FTP did not provide the protection they needed.

The company went to work looking for a security solution that would ensure that data being transferred would remain protected while in transit and as it arrived at each respective endpoint. Information is sent out from the data center’s mainframes, as well as by employees within the organization from their desktops. Since our client is responsible for processing data for large global organizations, having unencrypted information intercepted in transit had the potential to create a great deal of damage for all parties involved.

In addition to a data encryption solution, the company was also looking for a way to provide strong security while also increasing operational efficiencies within the data center—ideally they wanted a solution that would not only provide them with encryption, but also a way that they could save time and resources while achieving that data security.

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition & SecureZIP PartnerLink

The company realized that SecureZIP Enterprise Edition and SecureZIP PartnerLink would solve their security issues, and therefore purchased the product for their desktops and mainframes. This enabled them to send encrypted data to external customers from either operating platform, ensuring information remained protected at all times. Employees could encrypt data easily and exchange information securely from their desktops throughout the organization. The company brand was protected, as well as all data being sent from their organization to large business partners and internal resources alike.

The Application Integration feature of SecureZIP for z/OS® provided our client the ability to stream data directly into, or out of, a secure ZIP container, improving operating efficiencies within the data center while ensuring data remained protected, without ever staging it to disk. Extensive testing of this feature has shown elapsed processing times reduced by up to 600% and CPU clock times reduced by up to 60%.