Application Examples

• ProtectFile provides secure user group access to centrally stored and sensitive confidential data such as customer files, payroll, financial information, strategic plans etc.
• ProtectFile is used to eliminate the risk of malicious interception of confidential information that is in transit across the LAN.
• ProtectFile is commonly used to provide company boards with their own folders of confidential data files that are secured by encryption, such as board papers, strategy documents etc. These files are easily accessed by each board member and their respective executive, however all non-authorized parties, including network administrators and the savvy hacker, are unable to read these files in clear text.
• Securing access to confidential data stored on Application Service Provider (ASP) facilities. As data is secured at client level, confidential data is protected not only on the outsourced storage server, but also in transit between the ASP and the computing devices remote location.
• ProtectFile is often used as part of an overall solution to escalate the security of confidential data on any Windows file system device that may contain information critical to corporate governance laws such as Sarbanes Oxley section 302 and 404.
  
  In respect to Sarbanes Oxley section 404, ProtectFile’s ability to cryptographically enforce access control to encrypted files is utilized to assist compliance to meeting authenticity of financial reporting. It can protect against unauthorized access and manipulation of financial data.
• ProtectFile is often utilized as a component of an overall solution to assist adherence to legislated privacy laws that require organizations to secure electronic information on customers and employees. These include the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Australian Federal Privacy Act 1998, the European Data Protection Directive, the SB1386 California Senate Bill, plus others.
  
  ProtectFile’s ability to control access to encrypted files that are stored anywhere within the local area network, on mobile devices and on portable storage media, secures privacy-related information from unauthorized exposure. Since encryption and decryption is undertaken on the client, the savvy hacker is unable to intercept such confidential data as it traverses the network.
• ProtectFile facilitates ‘Chinese walls’ within the organization, enabling employee groups to store confidential data on the company servers without the risk of access by unauthorized users, including ICT and management.