Case Study: Global Corporation achieves 100% PCI compliance and secures millions of files with PKWARE Data Redaction

Global Corporation Secures Data and Meets PCI Compliance Goals

Global Corporation faced a looming PCI DSS audit after acquiring a smaller business and discovered employees had been saving unencrypted credit card numbers in spreadsheets and documents. Lacking visibility into unstructured files on desktops, laptops and cloud-synced devices, the security team needed a single solution to both find and remediate exposed card data—so they evaluated and selected PKWARE’s automated data redaction technology.

PKWARE deployed its redaction software in a pilot on 30 devices and found 4,100 files containing more than 74 million credit card numbers, then rolled the solution out across thousands of machines and file servers. PKWARE automatically detected and remediated millions of files, enabling the company to achieve 100% compliance on its PCI audit and later expand protection to hundreds of file servers and over 100,000 endpoints, taking thousands of devices and millions of files out of audit scope.