Best practices for securing confidential company information and compliance related data sent via email is through the use of encryption. With email encryption, organizations can minimize the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy. Protecting email against threats like viruses and worms are important. Yet, when it comes to the last line of defense, encryption protects the target of the email threats – it protects the data itself.

PGP's comprehensive suite of email encryption products enables companies to customize their email protection to best meet business needs. PGP gateway, end-to-end, and clientless solutions can work standalone or in combination. They also work unmanaged or centrally managed and policy based using PGP Universal™ Server. PGP® solutions are standards based to offer a high level of interoperability with recipient's encryption solutions.

PGP email encryption solutions include:

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• PGP Universal™ Gateway Email – Secure emails going external to the company, even to recipients without encryption software
• PGP® PDF Messenger – Secure communications to large groups of customers or partners, such as monthly statement delivery, even to recipients without encryption software

• PGP® Desktop Email – Enable end-to-end secure emails starting right from the sender's laptop or desktop computer
• PGP® Mobile – Protect email and data on Windows Mobile® smartphones
• PGP® Support Package for BlackBerry® – Extend PGP email security to BlackBerry smartphones

Email has evolved into the most important business communications system in the world, enabling organizations to efficiently interact with customers, clients, and business partners. Unfortunately, unprotected email poses a critical risk to an enterprise's most sensitive data: customer information, financial data, trade secrets, and other proprietary information. Exposure of this information can result in financial loss, legal ramifications, and brand damage.

PGP Universal™ Gateway Email provides centrally managed, standards-based email encryption to secure email communications with customers and partners. By encrypting data at the gateway, PGP Universal Gateway Email ensures data is protected from unauthorized access in transit over the public Internet and at rest on a recipient's mail server. With PGP Universal Gateway Email, organizations can minimize the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.

• Easy, automatic operation–Protects sensitive email without changing the user experience.
• Enforced security policies–Automatically enforce data protection with centrally managed policies.
• Accelerated deployment–Deliver email encryption using the existing infrastructure.
• Reduced operational costs–Result from eliminating training and help-desk costs through clientless operation.

Secure Delivery Solutions

PGP Corporation provides two options for deploying secure, clientless email delivery:

• PGP Universal Gateway Email–Provides multiple, flexible secure delivery options for secure webmail using PGP Universal™ Web Messenger, encrypted PDF messages using the built-in PDF Messenger feature, and standards-based OpenPGP and S/MIME message formats.
• PGP® PDF Messenger–stand-alone product version provides secure delivery using encrypted PDF messages, maximizing the options for communicating with a broad range of email recipients.

PGP Encryption Platform Enabled

As a PGP® Encryption Platform-enabled application, PGP Universal Gateway Email is used with PGP Universal™ Server to manage existing policies, users, keys, and configurations, expediting deployment and policy enforcement. PGP Universal Gateway Email can also be used in combination with other PGP® encryption applications to provide multiple layers of security.

Vast amounts of mission-critical information move in and out of businesses through email. Everyone expects instant availability of digital documents. However, the ability to ensure data confidentiality and verify its content and sender is one of the biggest security challenges today to any size organization. Concerns about protecting information privacy, preventing fraud, meeting ever tighter regulatory compliance guidelines, and secure, confirmed delivery of sensitive information are now vital requirements for all business communications. Unprotected email poses a critical risk to an enterprise’s most sensitive data: customer information, financial data, trade secrets, and other proprietary information. Exposure of this information can result in financial loss, legal ramifications, and brand damage.

PGP® PDF Messenger provides clientless email encryption for secure email communications with large groups of customers and partners. By encrypting data down to the individual recipient, PGP PDF Messenger protects data from unauthorized access in transit over the public Internet, at rest on recipient mail servers, and at the endpoint. With PGP PDF Messenger, organizations can minimize the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.

PGP PDF Messenger automatically secures email messages as they leave the enterprise network according to highly configurable encryption rules, eliminating the need for client software or user intervention. Leveraging the broad adoption of PDF reader software, PGP PDF Messenger enables enterprises to address regulatory requirements and data breach risks without requiring special software or using proprietary email attachment encryption software. Among its benefits are the following:

• Easy, automatic operation–Protects sensitive email from sender to recipient without changing the user experience.
• Enforced security policies–Automatically enforces data protection using centrally managed policies without storing messages.
• Accelerated deployment–Delivers email encryption to a broad range of users using the existing infrastructure.

Email is the most important business communications system in the world, enabling organizations to efficiently interact with customers, clients, and business partners. Yet unprotected email poses a critical risk to an enterprise’s most sensitive data: customer information, financial data, trade secrets, and other proprietary information. Exposure of this information to unauthorized parties can result in financial loss, legal ramifications, and brand damage.

PGP^® Desktop Email provides enterprises with an automatic, transparent encryption solution for securing internal and external confidential email communications. With PGP Desktop Email, organizations can minimize the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.

• Easy, automatic operation–Protects sensitive email without changing the user experience.
• Enforced security policies–Enforce data protection automatically with centrally managed policies.
• Accelerated deployment–Achieves end-to-end email encryption using the existing infrastructure.
• Reduced operation costs–Result from centralized automation of email encryption policies.

PGP Desktop Email also enables users to encrypt and compress files for sharing or backup using:

• PGP^® Virtual Disk–For secure storage, PGP Virtual Disk enables storage of files and folders in a single encrypted file that is used like a removable disk drive.
• PGP^® Zip–For storing backups or sharing files, PGP Zip stores files and folders in a single, encrypted and compressed file.

Smartphones enhance productivity and enable new ways of conducting business beyond the confines of the office. They contain all the confidential corporate email and data once reserved for laptops, but in a much smaller, highly mobile form factor that professionals carry with them 24/7.

However, these same devices that provide a competitive advantage also present new security risks to the enterprise. A smartphone that is lost or stolen with unencrypted data or email that is sent unencrypted significantly increases the risk of a corporate data breach.

PGP® Mobile solves this problem with comprehensive email¹ and data encryption for Windows Mobile smartphones and storage cards that provides powerful protection for the data stored, in transit, and shared with others.

• Maximum protection – Protects email, email attachments, and data with few changes to the user experience. Email encryption happens automatically right on the smartphone which provides maximum protection by enabling true end-to-end encryption.
• Enforced security policies – Leverages PGP Universal™ Server to automatically, transparently, and consistently enforce email security policies without user intervention.
• Accelerated deployment – Using over-the-air deployment, centralized management, and integration with existing enterprise infrastructure.
• Reduced operation costs – Results from centralized deployment, management, and consistent policy enforcement across all PGP® applications.
• Strategic, leveraged, extensible approach – As a PGP® Encryption Platform–enabled application, PGP Mobile is deployed and managed using PGP Universal Server.

Mobile devices such as Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry® smartphones are popular tools for digital communications, both in the office and on the road. As more employees and executives begin to carry these wireless devices, the amount of sensitive and confidential information put at risk increases. Lacking the right protection, sensitive email that is stored or transmitted on mobile devices may be breached. The resulting damages can include lost revenue, regulatory penalties, and brand damage.

PGP® Support Package for BlackBerry® enables enterprises to extend market-leading PGP® messaging security solutions for laptops and desktops to BlackBerry smartphones. Developed in partnership between RIM and PGP, PGP Support Package for BlackBerry is already integrated into the native BlackBerry OS. It simply needs to be purchased and activated to begin providing encryption protection for BlackBerry emails.

PGP Support Package for BlackBerry is a comprehensive email security solution that providesdata encryption, digital signature, secured attachments, and automated key lookup (view example screenshots). Additional benefits include:

• Easy, automatic operation–Protects data with few changes to the smartphone user experience.
• Enforced security policies–Automatically enforces data protection with centrally managed policies, keys and logs when using PGP Universal Server.
• Accelerated deployment–Reduces setup time and speeds enterprise data protection.
• Reduced operation costs–Results from fast deployment and intuitive user interface, plus the automation of email encryption policies if using PGP Universal Server.