Features

• Secure email, files, and data in active use

  PGP Desktop Professional provides a comprehensive set of encryption applications to protect sensitive data in email and instant messages and on disk or removable media. PGP Desktop Professional secures confidential data, protecting sensitive business information and helping to meet partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.
  
  

  • Disk, Volume, and File Protection

    PGP Desktop Professional includes PGP® Whole Disk Encryption, which locks down the entire contents of a laptop, desktop, external drive, or USB flash drive, including boot sectors, system, and swap files.
    
    

  • 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 Encryption Platform–Enabled

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

• PGP Universal Server Management

  PGP Desktop Professional can be centrally deployed and managed when used with PGP Universal Server (optional), 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.
    
    

  • Recovery passphrase

    Automatically generates and stores a unique one-time-use recovery passphrase to ensure authorized access to encrypted data.
    
    

  • Extensible protection

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

Benefits

• Easy, Automatic Operation

  Once PGP Desktop Professional is deployed, its operation is completely transparent— users simply continue to work as usual. The software automatically encrypts and decrypts data on-the-fly, ensuring data protection without requiring changes in users’ behavior.
  
  

  • Automatic messaging security

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

  • 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.

• Enforced Security Policies

  Security policy configured in PGP Universal Server ensures that email, local disks, and removable media are encrypted, defending data across the network and transported on easily lost devices.
  
  

  • Client controls

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

  • Status reporting

    Enables inspection and reporting on the state of disk encryption in the organization to satisfy regulatory requirements and help prevent a data breach.
    
    

  • Strong authentication options

    Perform pre-boot authentication using smart cards such as the RSA SID800.

• Accelerated Deployment

  Used together, PGP Desktop Professional 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 full disk and end-to-end email encryption.
  

• Reduced Operation Costs

  With PGP Desktop Professional, no special training is required for end users. This approach accelerates deployment time, reduces training costs, and avoids any increase in help desk calls.

System Requirements

PGP Desktop Professional supports Windows Vista (all 32- and 64-bit editions), Windows XP (32- and 64-bit editions), Windows 2000 Professional (SP4), and Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.