Email Encryption: SaaS-powered, Policy-based Email Encryption

Proofpoint Encryption offers powerful, policy-based email encryption features that mitigate the risks associated with regulatory violations, data loss and corporate policy violations, without adversely impacting business operations. Proofpoint Encryption is ideal for any organization that needs to protect sensitive email data, while still making it readily available to appropriate affiliates, business partners and end users—on their desktops and mobile devices.

Email Encryption and Today's Email Compliance Challenges

As email has become the preferred medium for business communications, preventing confidential information from being leaked in outbound email messages has become an essential component of preventing enterprise data breaches. Additionally, the number of government and industry regulations requiring email compliance and security is on the rise. Federal regulations (such as HIPAA, SOX and GLBA), security standards such as PCI-DSS and, most recently, state data protection laws such as Massachusetts 201 CMR 17 all require enterprises to protect private data through technologies like encryption.

Proofpoint Email Encryption meets these requirements with the industry's most powerful and flexible solution for policy-based email encryption.

Simple to Administer

Unlike alternative approaches to email encryption services, Proofpoint Encryption provides effective protection for sensitive email information without the administrative burdens and infrastructure costs typically associated with secure messaging. Features include:

• Easy policy management: All email encryption policies—whether they are driven by regulatory compliance, data security or internal corporate concerns—are centrally managed and enforced at the gateway. A convenient graphical interface is provided for defining encryption policies, which can be triggered based on structured, unstructured or keyword/regular expression content matches identified by the data loss prevention features of Proofpoint Privacy.
  
  
• Simplified key and certificate management: Proofpoint Encryption eliminates the administrative overhead associated with traditional email encryption solutions. Using Proofpoint Encryption technology, keys are generated locally by each unique customer instance of Proofpoint Encryption, whether deployed as SaaS or on-premises.
  
  
• Minimal data storage and archive requirements: Proofpoint Encryption simplifies the storage and backup overhead that is typically associated with email encryption. The Proofpoint Key Service handles all key management functions using Proofpoint's next-generation SaaS infrastructure.

Easy to Use

Proofpoint Encryption operates transparently to end users without requiring software downloads or the installation and maintenance of desktop or mobile encryption clients. Proofpoint's encryption solution automatically encrypts and decrypts sensitive content as required, without end users having to use and manage complicated digital certificates or encryption keys. Proofpoint's email encryption solution can also support multiple end-user authentication sources.

Low Total Cost of Ownership

Proofpoint Encryption seamlessly interfaces with other components of Proofpoint Privacy, including Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance and Proofpoint Digital Asset Security. Easy deployment and minimal ongoing management requirements greatly reduce the ongoing costs associated with email encryption. Proofpoint Encryption's unparalleled ease-of-use for end users minimizes support, training and helpdesk costs.

Email Encryption Benefits with Proofpoint Encryption

• Automatically and dynamically applies email encryption based on your organization's policies, right at the gateway.
  
  
• Regulatory Compliance, data loss prevention and content security policies are consistently and accurately applied, as-needed.
  
  
• Eliminates encryption key management, backup and administration burdens through the Proofpoint Key Service™, using SaaS infrastructure for secure, fully redundant key storage.