Suppliers

Many employees in companies involved with supply are equipped with mobile personal devices such as notebooks, PDAs, and smartphones. They use them to access corporate data anywhere and anytime.

It’s the same for service technicians working for computer manufacturers or maintenance staff working for energy suppliers: accessing their employer’s CRM and ERP system helps them complete a job faster, thereby increasing customer satisfaction. For example, the service technician can check directly, online, whether a particular spare part is in stock at the warehouse and then order the required part with one click. It is just as easy and quick to fetch the construction plans for a power station assembly from the corporate network as it is to write repair reports directly onsite.

The “bandwidth” of the mobile personal devices used for these tasks ranges from notebooks to PDAs to smartphones. All mobile personal devices have one thing in common: they are at increased risk of being lost or stolen, which can mean the possible loss of confidential and valuable enterprise data.

To reduce this threat, companies protect their employees’ mobile personal devices. Many well-known companies in the supply sectors place their trust in the protection provided by the Utimaco SafeGuard family of products, the SafeGuard MailGateway, and the hardware security module SafeGuard CryptoServer, and thus are able to provide optimum security for their confidential and valuable data.