Video: Bank of China, US, on Using Proofpoint for Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus and Email Encryption

We issued a press release today (see, "Bank of China New York Deploys Proofpoint to Solve Spam, Data Loss Prevention and Email Encryption Challenges in Days") about Proofpoint customer Bank of China New York Branch's use of Proofpoint for anti-spam, anti-virus and email encryption.

Bank of China New York (http://www.bocusa.com), the US branch of the world's fifth largest bank, uses Proofpoint to block incoming spam and viruses, prevent exposure of private information and encrypt sensitive outbound emails to achieve compliance with data privacy regulations including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).

Last week, I was at Proofpoint's East Coast "Inner Circle" customer event and I had a chance to sit down with Kostas Georgakopoulos, Director of Information Security at Bank of China's US branch and talk with him about how the bank is using Proofpoint. You can view the resulting video embedded in this post.

Writer Penny Crosman at Bank Systems & Technology also spoke with Kostas last week and her article, Bank of China Steps Up Email Securityis also out today. In the article, Kostas says:

"Like other financial institutions, we're targeted by spammers and people who send us spearing attacks... Our concern is to protect the integrity of our data, our customers' confidential information, and the availability of our systems... We needed something that would scale, that would provide additional capabilities, for example to help us meet regulatory concerns such as Gramm Leach Bliley."

If your organization faces similar data protection and regulatory compliance challenges, you'll probably be interested in the Proofpoint whitepaper, Protecting Enterprise Data with Proofpoint Encryption, which you can register to download here:

http://www.proofpoint.com/emailencryption

I shot quite a few more Proofpoint customer videos at last week's event (and hope to this week at our West Coast "Inner Circle" meeting), so stay tuned for more.