Background
This case study of a Global 500 financial services company is based on a December 2020 survey of PKWARE customers by TechValidate, a third-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.
Challenges
The cybersecurity needs that most influenced their decision to use PKWARE solutions:
- Automation
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Use Cases
The organization is protecting the following data types with PKWARE:
- Personal data (SSNs, race, religion, minors, etc.)
- Confidential files
They protect the data uncovered by PKWARE discovery using:
- Access control
- Encrypting
The business uses PKWARE functionality for data security with these additional use cases:
- Reporting on file contents and activity
- Most used for compressing files with PKZIP (command line version)
Results
Immediate benefits they experienced following the deployment of PKWARE included:
- Improved the efficiency of a business process
- Improved protection of critical information
- Data security increased by 25-50% since implementing PKWARE technology
- Saved up to 25% of time by moving from manually applied protection to PKWARE’s automated discovery and protection solution
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PKWARE is committed to creating a world where seamless, transparent, and comprehensive data security is the norm, automatically protecting sensitive data at all times without sacrificing productivity, regardless of how or where data is stored and used. That means with PKWARE, your data is continuously protected and your organization stays out of the news cycles and off the front pages. It means that you’ll know what data is important, where it is, and how it’s protected. At all times.
