Features

• Secure confidential information in email with a centrally managed, desktop-based solution

  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® 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.

  • Powerful, End-to-End Email Encryption

    PGP Desktop Email delivers all the encryption functionality necessary for protecting an organization’s email communications in a single, easy-to-use and easy-to-manage solution. It enables organizations to automatically secure email communications from the sender’s email client to the recipient’s —and at all points in between—using centrally defined, policy-based encryption. PGP Desktop Email supports the major email security standards and interoperates seamlessly with most popular email security solutions used by recipients. For recipients without email security, senders can encrypt documents into a bundle using PGP® Zip or PGP® Self-Decrypting Archive and send the protected file as a standard email attachment.

  • PGP Encryption Platform–Enabled

    PGP Desktop 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 Desktop Email can be used with PGP Universal™ Server to manage existing policies, users, keys, and configurations, expediting deployment and policy enforcement. PGP Desktop Email can also be used in combination with other PGP encryption applications to provide multiple layers of security.

Benefits

• Easy, automatic operation

  Once PGP Desktop Email is deployed, its operation is completely transparent—users simply continue to work as usual. The software automatically protects messages, ensuring that users never forget to secure email and attachments.

  • Automatic messaging security

    Automatically encrypts, decrypts, digitally signs, and verifies email messages according to individual or centrally managed policies.

  • Secure clientless email delivery

    When deployed with PGP Universal™ Gateway Email, delivers messages securely to external users that lack an email encryption solution.

  • Multiple ways to protect data

    Protect sensitive data in transport using PGP Zip and PGP Self-Decrypting Archive and in storage using PGP® Virtual Disk.

  • S ecure file deletion

    Securely and permanently eliminates all traces of sensitive files from a disk.

• Enforced security policies

  Email policies can be set based on sender, individual recipient, recipient domain, keyword, or content, enabling confidential messages to be secured automatically with no changes required to user behavior. Policy definitions can be set and audited using PGP Universal Server’s management console.

  • Offline Policy Controls

    Administrators can now enforce policy for offline users by controlling what happens to email when the PGP Universal Server cannot be reached by PGP Desktop.

  • Client controls

    Enable the organization to better meet security requirements by locking down which features are enabled, visible to the user, and enforced.

  • Strong authentication options

    Provide two-factor authentication using smart cards such as the RSA SID800.

• Accelerated deployment

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

  • Rapid deployment process

    Speeds deployment by automating the installation and configuration process.

• Reduced operation costs

  Result from centralized automation of email encryption policies. With PGP Desktop 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.

  As a PGP® Encryption Platform–enabled application, PGP Desktop Email can be deployed with PGP Universal™ Server for central management of existing policies, users, keys, and configurations. This solution expedites deployment and enables consistent policy enforcement. In combination with other PGP® encryption applications, PGP Desktop Email provides multiple layers of security.