PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, has announced a new release of PGP Command Line for IBM Power Systems in conjunction with its presence this week at COMMON and Infosecurity Europe 2009 in London.

PGP Corporation is continuing to extend its support for a broad range of operating systems including midrange and mainframe environments, Windows, Unix, Linux and now IBM i. The extensions make it even easier for enterprises to integrate and automate business information security with end-to-end encryption.

With this release, enterprise customers now have unparalleled choice and flexibility when it comes to securing the privacy and confidentiality of their data exchange between heterogeneous systems internally, and externally with third-party business partners, the company said.

IBM i supports virtualized, large transaction processing and line-of-business applications typically deployed in vertical industries such as financial services, retail, insurance, manufacturing and distribution where they typically handle extremely high-volumes of confidential data, such as credit card numbers, bank account information, employee payroll and benefit forms, health care information, and patient data.

Customer and partner data from these types of applications are most often being transferred to third-parties and external sources for billing and collection, data backup and storage archival processes. To ensure the confidentiality and privacy of customer and partner information, whether the data is in use, at rest, or in transit, it must be protected and encrypted at all times in the case of interception, loss or theft.  Even more importantly, data must be protected to meet stringent compliance and regulatory mandates, in addition to corporate security policies and practices.

PGP Command Line for IBM Power Systems enables administrators to add encryption to existing business processes including batch processing, data transfer and backup. By automating the encrypted transfer and backup of large volumes of business data, IBM Power Systems customers using PGP Command Line can ensure compliance with corporate mandates and information security regulations. With PGP Command Line, IBM Power Systems administrators can easily integrate information security and data protection into existing automation scripts and backup processes-data moving across networks and stored on servers is encrypted and protected at the source. With PGP technology, the integrity of the data is supported throughout its lifecycle with end-to-end encryption, no matter where the data resides. 

Examples of how PGP Command Line secures data on IBM Power Systems include:

• Moving data to and from remote corporate offices, partner, or customer sites over internal networks or the public Internet
• Data residing on servers accessible by local system administrators or exposed to other unauthorized personnel by gaps in the local security infrastructure
• Data transferred for offsite storage and in danger of being lost, misplaced, or stolen.

"PGP Corporation continues to evolve the PGP Encryption Platform to support more operating systems, platforms and devices to meet the data security needs of any type of enterprise environment," said Steven Schoenfeld, vice president of Products and Strategy at PGP Corporation.  "PGP Command Line is ideal for organizations with high-volumes of sensitive data that they are moving between data centers. By adding support for IBM i, we are enabling enterprises using IBM Power Systems to encrypt data at the source, thereby strengthening their data security infrastructure."

Availability

PGP Command Line for the IBM I for Power Systems is available today through the PGP global network of resellers.

About PGP Corporation

PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software for enterprise data protection. Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and backups.

PGP solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune 100, 75 percent of the Fortune Global 100, 87 percent of the German DAX Index, and 51 percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP solutions help protect confidential information, secure customer data, achieve regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies' brands and reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com.