Problem: A large, complex environment that needed encryption before the 2009 tax season, or risk significant data loss and project delays. This environment included more than 100,000 endpoints, such as USB thumb drives storing critical Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data.

Solution: Merlin International® partnered with IRS technical leaders for approximately nine months of system integration to provide an EAL4, FIPS 140-2, 508-compliant, centrally managed solution to all IRS endpoints.

Results: Merlin’s solution greatly enhanced confidentiality, with a new security policy that automatically forced encryption on all data sent to any USB removable storage device from any endpoint and by the deadline.