Financial Services

Enormous advances in personal devices, data transfer technology, and mobile data media have led to “mobile offices” being implemented across the board at financial service providers. Staff in these companies have data stored on their mobile personal devices, such as notebooks, PDAs, and smartphones, and they process it while on the move.

For example, a representative of an insurance company can use his or her mobile personal device to get direct access to the company’s current stock data and suitable tariff models after an evening meeting with a customer. If the customer’s family circumstances has changed (e.g., got married or had a new baby), the representative can update the details immediately in the customer’s master data file and transfer it to the central corporate server. The representative might then offer a suitable family insurance policy due to the change in the customer’s family circumstances.

To protect against the increased risk of the mobile personal device being lost or stolen, and consequently the loss of confidential and valuable customer data, it is necessary to protect the representative’s mobile personal device. Many well-known financial service providers place their trust in the protection provided by the Utimaco SafeGuard family of products, SafeGuard MailGateway, and the hardware security module SafeGuard CryptoServer, and so they are able to provide optimum security for their customer data.