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Citrus and Chemical Bank Deploys Route1 MobiKEY for Secure Resource Access and Business Continuity Planning
Citrus and Chemical Bank Deploys Route1 MobiKEY for Secure Resource Access and Business Continuity Planning.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTORONTO, Jan. 10 /CNW/ - Route1 Inc.(TM) (TSX-V:ROI) today announced that\nCitrus and Chemical Bank has deployed the Route1 MobiKEY to ensure its\nemployees have fully encrypted, secure remote access to desktop and network\nresources. While initially purchased from Route1 as part of the bank's\nbusiness continuity plan in the event of employee illness, a pandemic or other\nunforeseen event, award-winning MobiKEY also provides key banking personnel\nand commercial loan officers with a highly secure way to access desktop\ncomputers and the corporate network when away from the office.\n\n\n\"As part of our pandemic planning, we needed to empower our employees to\ncommunicate with us and connect to our highly secure network from home while\nusing existing broadband, cable or dial-up connections,\" said Render Swygert,\nExecutive Vice-President of IS&T for Citrus and Chemical. \"That meant finding\nsomething that was secure, easy to deploy, and more cost effective than a\nvirtual private network (VPN).\"\n\n\nIn examining alternative solutions, Citrus and Chemical was introduced to\nRoute1's MobiKEY by Six X Telecom Corp, an accredited reseller of Route1\nproducts. MobiKEY is a highly secure, ultra-portable solution for reliably\nconnecting users with enterprise applications from any Internet-enabled,\nWindows-based PC. Powered by Route1's MobiNET service delivery platform for\nsecure identity management, MobiKEY technology is embedded into a smart\ncard-enabled, cryptographic USB device, making it one of the most powerful and\neasy-to-use secure computing solutions available today.\n\n\nCitrus and Chemical initially deployed seven MobiKEYs for distribution to\nIS/IT staff and for emergency use, but that number very quickly grew to 30\nonce the bank recognized MobiKEY's tremendous value in both contingency\nplanning and for day-to-day use. Today, the bank's IS/IT staff use MobiKEYs in\ntheir day-to-day roles to access, manage and support desktops and physical and\nvirtual servers on the network from practically any location. Key banking\npersonnel use it to tap into the network when away from the office, while\ncommercial loan officers use it to log into head office to gather information\nwhile at customer sites.\n\n\n\"Having an up-to-date business continuity plan and providing employees\nwith secure access to computing ...