Financial Services Use Case #1:

Investment Banking

Users: Investment Bank Merger & Acquisition Team - four financial analysts, two lawyers and the team leader.

Background: Two privately owned firms agree to merge via an exchange of common shares. Firm One retains the investment bank to conduct a valuation of the proposed partner, Firm Two. The bank's M&A team spends several weeks in the field gathering information on Firm Two's multiple factories, logistics facilities, suppliers, and customers. To reduce the time required, the M&A team members often split up and visit multiple facilities in parallel. The M&A team sends daily reports back to the Investment Bank HQ.

The team operates under terms of multiple non-disclosure agreements with significant penalties imposed for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.

Challenge: Team members often use email systems, wireless networks, and other communications infrastructure operated by the target firm or other potentially hostile players. Team member laptops are often left unattended in hotel rooms, rental cars, offices, and other locations where hostile parties could gain access.

Objective: To secure sensitive data and valuation information while at rest in team laptops and during intra-team communications via email.

Solution: AlphaCipher

AlphaCipher allows team members to employ unbreakable encryption for sensitive information stored on laptop computers and for confidential email messages, data files, or photos exchanged within the team. Any available infrastructure can be used for communications between team members with complete confidence that the sensitive data is secure. Confidential information stored on the team's laptops will remain secure if the system's passwords are discovered or cracked. In addition, sensitive information stored on the laptops will remain secure even if the laptop is stolen and subjected to the most sophisticated types of exploitation.

Target firm valuation: $600,000,000
Cost for unbreakable encryption: < $8,000