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PKWARE Case Study: Financial Services Provider #4

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Overview The company is a global payment and financial services company, conducting business in two primary segments. One segment provides money transfer services, money orders, and bill payment services to consumers. The challenge was to securely exchange data via FTP and retain compression capabilities while adding a cross-platform security solution. It deployed SecureZIP for Linux server that had ability to securely exchange information with largest business partner.

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Publisher	Pkware	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Security Management

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