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.

Features

• Protect email confidentiality with centrally defined and enforced encryption policy

  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.

  • Gateway-Based Email Encryption

    PGP Universal Gateway Email secures email messages automatically as they leave the enterprise network according to highly configurable encryption rules, eliminating the need for client software or user intervention. Flexible delivery options allow an organization to integrate seamlessly with partners’ existing standards-based email encryption solutions or to securely deliver messages to partners and customers that lack an email encryption solution.

  • PGP Encryption Platform–Enabled

    PGP Universal Gateway Email is a PGP Encryption Platform–enabled application. The PGP Encryption Platform provides a strategic enterprise encryption framework for shared user management, policy, and provisioning,automated across multiple, integrated encryption applications.As a PGP Encryption Platform–enabled application, PGP Universal Gateway Email can be 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.

  • PGP Universal Server Management

    PGP Universal Gateway Email is centrally deployed and managed using PGP Universal Server, enabling organizations to easily set and enforce data security polices throughout the enterprise.

    • Centrally enforced security policy

      Automatically enforces protection of sensitive data and email using security policies driven by an existing corporate directory.

    • Extensible protection

      Allows management of PGP® Whole Disk Encryption, PGP® NetShare, or any other PGP Encryption Platform–enabled application.

Benefits

• Easy, automatic operation

  Once PGP Universal Gateway Email is deployed, its operation is completely transparent—users simply continue to work as usual. The software automatically provides secure delivery for outgoing messages according to policy, without changing internal end-user behavior, workflow, or productivity. Users are automatically enrolled using the existing infrastructure.

  • Flexible, secure delivery options

    Provides encrypted PDF or Web-email interface (Web Messenger) for securely delivering messages to external users that lack an email encryption solution.

  • PDF Messenger

    Delivers messages to partners as encrypted PDFs, eliminating the need for special software.

  • Certified Delivery

    Allows organizations to track and verify delivery of PDF Messenger–delivered messages.

  • Standards support

    Interoperates with existing OpenPGP or S/MIME-based solutions to secure email to partners.

• Enforced security policies

  Security policy configured in PGP Universal Server automatically triggers encryption based on content, sender, recipient, and other message details that identify confidential information.

• Accelerated deployment

  Used together, PGP Universal Gateway Email and PGP Universal Server’s unified management console establish, enforce, and update security policy in real time. This combination reduces the time and effort required to deploy email encryption.

  • Branding support

    Allows organizations to customize the Web-based delivery mechanism to reflect their brand.

  • Clientless operation

    Eliminates impact on senders and does not require partners to invest in new software, hardware, or training.

  • Automated user enrollment

    Makes account creation and key management automatic and transparent to end users.

• Reduced operational costs

  With PGP Universal Gateway Email, no special training is required for end users. This approach accelerates deployment time, reduces training costs, and avoids any increase in help desk calls. PGP Universal Gateway Email allows organizations to:

  • Adapt to evolving security requirements

    Allows administrators to quickly implement new policies to control mail flow and encryption.

  • Leverage existing compliance investments

    Integrates with leading third-party email hygiene and outbound content compliance solutions to act on existing policies and processes.

• 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.

System Requirements

PGP Universal Gateway Email runs on PGP Universal Server.