Email Security

Security and control to protect your company’s electronic assets

It is hard to imagine doing business today without e-mail. With this convenient and efficient means of communication also come increased opportunities for valuable information to fall into the wrong hands. Since e-mail security threats can originate from within your organization or from external sources, it is imperative to enforce policies to protect your organizations security and to meet compliance requirements.

Today, many companies and government bodies transfer encrypted information by e-mail that was previously sent by registered mail or even by courier. There are several reasons for that:

• To secure against industrial espionage
• To protect sensitive information about people
• To preserve expertise

Depending on your organization’s size and infrastructure, Utimaco offers e-mail security solutions that deliver the protection, visibility and control you need – whether it be plug-and-play protection or centralized policy-based e-mail management, including the precise control over message content and attachments.
Securing e-mail communication at a central location has many benefits over the classic approach of securing e-mail on the client:

• Simple integration and administration
• Central implementation of a company’s security guidelines
• Support of all international e-mail security standards
• Easier to comply with regulations and track compliance

In addition to email protection features included in SafeGuard Enterprise, Utimaco offers two e-mail solutions for internal and external e-mail security:

• SafeGuard MailGateway for external e-mail security: A software appliance based on a hardened variant of the Linux operating system, which is integrated at the center of the SMTP chain. All incoming and outgoing e-mails are encrypted and decrypted by means of rules, and e-mails are digitally signed. SafeGuard MailGateway includes several modules, including:
  
  
  • SafeGuard WebMail is the ideal extension of SafeGuard MailGateway, when encryption through S/Mime or OpenPGP is not available.
  • The patent pending Utimaco innovation SafeGuard PDFMail allows users to send encrypted emails via encrypted PDFs, to external recipients who do not have an email security infrastructure and offers an easy and secure for external recipients to reply to the PDF-based email.
    
• SafeGuard PushMail for internal e-mail and Blackberry™ e-mail security: Provides comprehensive central protection for internal e-mail communication, if the organization is running PushMail services or just all internal e-mail.

The table below presents the optimal use of the e-mail security solutions from Utimaco: