Covata Limited, an Australian IT security firm, announced that through its partnership with T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, the company will deploy Safe Share, its file-sharing solution, to protect sensitive data for German health insurance company, Barmer GEK. Safe Share will run in an accredited high-security data centre operated by T Systems in Germany. Together T-Systems and Covata provide file sharing based on enterprise grade security architecture to provide Barmer GEK’s data security.
Last year, T-Systems announced it would build a technical network to connect Barmer GEK with its partners based on the T-System’s secure infrastructure. As part of this contract, Barmer GEK has opted to use Covata’s Safe Share for secure file-sharing, such as between their mobile sales force, customers and suppliers. Covata Safe Share, hosted on T Systems infrastructure, was selected for its ability to provide encryption, flexibility, usability and the ability to securely share large and classified data with more than 50 GB file size, the firms say.
T-Systems SVP of Cloud Apps Frank Streker said: “T-Systems is committed to not only providing our customers with the best network infrastructure, but provisioning them with leading cloud applications from our carefully selected vendor network. Covata Safe Share is the blue print for the way businesses should securely store and share data in the cloud.”
And Frank Löhler, Teamleader Mobility & Mobile Strategy BARMER GEK, said: “The digitisation of our business processes is a core element for improving customer service and strengthening our competitiveness. Barmer GEK prides itself on its exceptional service, and this extends behind the scenes to how we protect the valuable personal data we receive from our community. Partnering with Covata and T-Systems will allow us to further strengthen our approach to data security.”
Trent Telford, CEO of Covata, said: “Time and time again we’ve seen employees introduce immense risk into the enterprise by using consumer grade file sharing and collaboration tools that do not provide any significant level of data protection or security protocols. For an enterprise customer, these risks could ultimately result in the compromise of millions of records or other pieces of sensitive data. By using Safe Share, German enterprises will have access to an easy-to-use platform that will enable the company to maintain full control over their data, including knowing where their data is stored.”
