Smartcrypt redefines enterprise data protection, providing complete administrative control while finding and protecting sensitive data on user devices, file servers, mainframes, and more, on every enterprise operating system.

PKWARE’s Smartcrypt combines data discovery and encryption into a single workflow, making it easier than ever before to find and secure your organization's critical data.

Smartcrypt Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) protects sensitive information at rest on enterprise servers, ensuring compliance with a wide range of regulatory requirements and customer privacy mandates. Smartcrypt TDE secures file and application data without application changes, additional infrastructure or professional services.

The Smartcrypt Enterprise Manager is the central component of the Smartcrypt platform, allowing organizations to implement enterprise-wide encryption policies and maintain control over all encryption activity.

The Smartcrypt for Files and Folders agent enables data discovery, encryption, and decryption on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. The agent is installed on each device that will be used to access or store sensitive information.

The Smartcrypt File Servers agent ensures that shared files are protected on network file servers and network-attached storage devices by enabling server-based data discovery, encryption, and decryption.

Smartcrypt is the most flexible and powerful IBM Z encryption solution available. Smartcrypt protects both structured and unstructured data, gives customers the option to embed encryption directly into their applications, and can secure mainframe databases with field-level, length-preserving encryption.

Smartcrypt Application Encryption is the ideal solution for organizations who need to incorporate strong encryption into their products or systems. A powerful software development kit, Smartcrypt Application Encryption delivers high performance, cross-platform security that is easily embedded, insulating sensitive data from weaknesses in other systems that may handle the information.

Get the details on how Smartcrypt Data Discovery uses pattern recognition, dictionaries, and other tools to scan documents for sensitive data, while minimizing the possibility of false positives and false negatives.

A closer look at Smartcrypt's plugin for Microsoft Outlook, including configuration options and details on outgoing and incoming email workflows.

Organizations face a daily challenge to make data available to their customers and employees while also ensuring that this data is secure from internal and external threats.

PKWARE’s Smartcrypt file and folder encryption pairs with Gemalto’s SafeNet KeySecure key management appliance to provide an enterprise security solution that encrypts data as soon as it’s saved on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

As data volumes continue to increase and cyber threats grow harder to predict, data classification has emerged as an essential element of data-centric security.

When organizations can simultaneously identify and encrypt sensitive information on file servers and user devices, they gain unprecedented control and visibility over their data, eliminating the obstacles to true enterprise information security.

Each time an organization sends sensitive data outside its own network, it exposes itself to risks. PKWARE's Smartcrypt facilitates policy-based secure data exchange, without security gaps and without disrupting user workflows.

Recent high-profile data breaches have demonstrated beyond question that network and device protection is not enough. True information security requires persistent data level protection, so that files and folders remain secure even after they leave a company’s systems.

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation brings fundamental change to the ways businesses and other organizations collect, store, and use personal information.

The stakes are getting higher every day. External security threats grow increasingly sophisticated and unpredictable. Internal controls become more complicated and challenging to implement. When data breaches do occur, the damage can take years to repair...

New York’s 23 NYCRR 500, a set of cybersecurity mandates and recommendations for the financial services industry, took effect on March 1, 2017. The law is the first of its kind in the United States and represents an early step in what may become a nationwide movement to improve data security through increased regulation...

After acquiring a new business unit, a large global bank identified a significant PCI DSS compliance risk. Find out how the bank used Smartcrypt to mitigate that risk and secure data across the entire organization.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is responsible for safeguarding sensitive patient data, and also secures information exchanged between hundreds of partners at the federal and state level, as well as with universities and private businesses. As a result, there is zero tolerance for security breaches, and CMS must comply with ever-changing regulatory requirements...

A major healthcare software provider, despite its industry-leading reputation, recently found itself under pressure to enhance its data security capabilities. Many of the company’s largest customers had begun to request that it build strong encryption into its Electronic Health Records (EHR) software...

See how a major insurance company met customer demands for PCI-compliant encryption while securing its internal data against cyber threats with Smartcrypt TDE.

Learn how a fast-growing online education company met customer expectations for encrypting data at rest while laying a strong foundation for long-term data protection.

In 2014, one of the largest banks in the country suffered a data breach that compromised millions of customer records. The large-scale theft of unencrypted data resulted in significant SEC fines and a loss of shareholder and consumer confidence...

In one of the country’s largest cities, a government agency faced a series of challenges as it struggled to manage a rapidly increasing volume of secure data traffic...

A high-profile federal government agency, tasked with ensuring the safety of millions of travelers each day, recently found that its data security policies had several significant weaknesses....

Doing business with government agencies means you have to comply with increasingly stringent security standards and requirements. Smartcrypt meets the encryption standards and regulations mandated by the U.S. Federal Government. Sensitive information is secure and the risk of lost revenue is eliminated...

Smartcrypt helps banking and financial services companies tackle the challenge of increasing volumes of data. Insure that sensitive information remains secure and that SLAs are exceeded to reduce spending...

As volumes of data continue to grow, IT budgets have been reduced, financial transaction settlement windows are contracting, and compliance-driven requirements are becoming more complex. You need a tailored solution that can address the problem without burdening your already constrained IT budgets and resources...

Whether you’re handling settlement, customer master, or general ledger files, your organization needs to exchange huge volumes of sensitive information. You need a solution that can respond to multiple security requirements with your IT budget constraints in mind...

By protecting and compressing data, Smartcrypt helps banking and financial services organizations tackle the challenge of efficient data consolidation. Storage space is conserved. Sensitive information is secure. All without added infrastructure costs for you or your IT partners...

Smartcrypt fully addresses the standards outlined in FIPS 140-2 by strongly encrypting the data itself. PKWARE's own FIPS mode setting ensures only FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography is used and it avoids the need for setting disruptive operating system FIPS policy settings...

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare industry, vast amounts of patient information are being handled electronically. Therefore, there is an increased need for stronger data security...

OMB M-06-16 requires all federal government agencies and departments to secure sensitive information that is accessed remotely or stored off-site. This includes information that is physically transported outside of an agency’s perimeter, including information transported on removable media...

In February of 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act applies to “HIPAA covered entities and their business associates that access, maintain, retain, modify, record, store, destroy, or otherwise hold, use, or disclose unsecured protected health information...”

PKWARE’s Smartcrypt ensures that sensitive customer data remains secure within your organization’s network as it travels from user to user and platform to platform. Smartcrypt’s data-centric approach to security makes meeting specific requirements of PCI DSS easy...

With Smartcrypt, financial services organizations and their service providers can improve data security while ensuring compliance with NYCRR 500 mandates...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new cybersecurity law that will take effect in the European Union in May 2018. The law introduces both new rights for EU citizens and new obligations for companies that collect, use, or process the personal information of EU citizens...

As more organizations adopt end-to-end encryption solutions, their DLP processes and technology have become less effective. This has resulted in more blocks and redirects which slows down business velocity...

Smartcrypt is the only offering that reduces and secures data with portability and interoperability across all major operating systems and devices. One solution, not several point products, handles structured and unstructured data for immediate access across your extended enterprise...

Smartcrypt's automated data protection workflow is ideal for encrypting surveillance footage and other video files that contain sensitive information.

Exponential growth in enterprise electronic data, demands on data retention periods and an increased cost focus have led to a "perfect storm" in data proliferation...

In order to efficiently and effectively respond to business needs, large amounts of potentially sensitive data are exchanged frequently within an organization. Smartcrypt’s data-centric approach to security ensures that strong encryption is applied to the data and remains with it in storage...

Email communication creates multiple opportunities for sensitive data to be misdirected or intercepted. Find out how Smartcrypt keeps email messages safe from internal and external threats.

PKWARE’s Smartcrypt provides seamless key management in order to avoid direct user access to keys, key-rings, and public/private key files, etc. It allows encryption to be managed on an owner/recipient level, which avoids common key sharing and access issues...

Every organization needs to share sensitive information with external companies and individuals. As data volumes and data traffic continue to increase, data exchange becomes a greater necessity and a greater risk each year.

Smartcrypt is the most flexible, high-performance z Systems encryption solution available today.