MTR Corporation picks Verizon to facilitate information-asset protection

Verizon will enable MTR’s 14,000 employees to quickly and consistently identify, classify and encrypt sensitive company information.

The MTR Corporation, which carries 4 million passengers every weekday in Hong Kong, wanted to bolster its security capabilities to better protect corporate and customer information. 

Verizon Business professional services experts helped the mass transit operator update its existing security and data classification policies and implemented a comprehensive Information Rights Management program. To build a security framework, Verizon conducted a series of stringent process assessments and workshops for employees with access to sensitive and classified information. As a result, MTR’s 14,000 employees are now able to quickly and consistently identify, classify and encrypt sensitive company information. And the new security framework has greatly helped to reduce the risk of unauthorized and inadvertent disclosure of such information, according to a Verizon report. 

Daniel Lai, MTR Corporation’s head of information technology, said: “Our business uses significant amounts of information in different forms. And since our employees and external partners are increasingly mobile, we wanted to ensure that all sensitive information was properly protected. With the help of Verizon Business, the entire MTR team is now well-equipped to safeguard customer data – and protect the underlying qualities of the MTR brand.”