Reader’s Digest Condenses File Transfer Infrastructure with Ipswitch MOVEit Family of Products

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Reader’s Digest is the largest-selling magazine in the world, appearing in 50 editions and 21 languages. The magazine and its associated book, magazine, and audio products are marketed through a wide range of channels including direct mail, television, catalogs, and the Internet.

The Challenge

“I needed to implement security standards for all data coming through the firewall,” explains Dan MacDonald, director of customer technology for Reader’s Digest. “We didn’t have a consolidated data transfer security standard that everyone followed. In essence we were leaving the decisions as to what was sensitive to the end-users. I was uncomfortable with the level of security. We had an incumbent product and performed extensive research to create a short list including the products from Ipswitch.” According to MacDonald, after a focused onsite Proof of Concept it became very clear that Ipswitch’s MOVEit DMZ and MOVEit central products with the optional PGP encryption and Secure Messaging modules were a perfect fit. “We were impressed with the solution maturity, ease of administration and bulletproof security.”

The Solution

The MOVEit DMZ managed file transfer server improves productivity and collaboration between employees, partners and customers by enabling the quick, easy, and secure exchange of sensitive business data via encrypted messages, as well as by file transfers—without needing to install any software on end-user PCs, managing encryption keys, burdening email systems with large volumes of files, or allowing email attachments through firewalls. The MOVEit Central workflow engine automatically moves files on a scheduled, event-driven or on-demand basis between a wide variety of internal and external computer systems, including MOVEit DMZ servers.