Northern Rock has selected Symantec security technology to help secure customer and corporate information. 

The bank has employed Symantec’s PGP Universal Gateway Email platform as part of its data protection strategy.

Northern Rock has 75 branches throughout the UK, as well as postal, telephone and internet operations.

Symantec’s PGP Universal Gateway Email system has been rolled out to all email users within the organisation, allowing them to communicate securely with customers, partners and regulatory authorities.

The system provides centrally managed, standards-based email encryption to secure email communications with customers and partners.

By encrypting data at the gateway Symantec’s PGP Universal Gateway Email ensures data is protected from unauthorised access in transit over the public internet and at rest on a recipient's mail server.

As a result, organisations can minimise the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.

“At Northern Rock we take a proactive approach to data protection. With increasing regulatory pressures we thought the time was right to upgrade our existing security strategy,” said Rick Hunkin, chief risk officer at Northern Rock. “Symantec offered a transparent solution which helps us deliver the appropriate levels of security.”