GMV shows in Colombia how to control information access by encryption

In the words of Colombia’s ICT minister, David Luna, the number of the country’s teleworkers has risen by 200% from 2012 to 2016, soaring from 31,000 to 95,000. This is good news but it also poses a stiff information-security challenge for the major organizations involved. For this very reason Colombia’s ICT ministry and employment ministry (MINTIC and MINTRABAJO) plus Colombia’s civil service (Función Pública) have organized the 3rd International Job Fair (3ª Feria Internacional del Trabajo), where technology firms such as GMV have been able to showcase their solutions for tackling this brand new scenario with success.

Within any organization there are always people handling confidential information and, with the spread of teleworking, they might well be working and communicating from untrustworthy environments outside the control of the company’s IT security department. Rising to this challenge, GMV has developed arkano SVD, a security product controlling data access by means of encryption mechanisms coded into the data itself, a system sometimes known as data self-protection.  Arkano SVD allows users to access a secure virtual desktop at any time from any place in a reliable manner. This security and peace of mind is achieved by means of a double authentication factor, disk encryption, centralized privilege- and access-control policies and also built-in DRM to compare encrypted documents among users.