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

Proofpoint Encryption offers powerful, policy-based email security encryption features that mitigate the security risks associated with regulatory violations, data loss and corporate email compliance policy violations, without adversely impacting business operations. Proofpoint Email Encryption solution is ideal for any corporate organization that needs to protect and secure sensitive email content, while still making secure emails 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 email content 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 corporate email compliance and email 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 email encryption.

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

Simple to Administer

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

• Easy corporate email encryption 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 corporate email 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 Email Encryption eliminates the administrative overhead associated with traditional email encryption services. Using Proofpoint Email Encryption technology, keys are generated locally by each unique customer instance of Proofpoint Email Encryption, whether deployed as software-as-a-service (SaaS) or on-premises.
  
  
• Minimal email data storage and archive requirements: Proofpoint Encryption simplifies the email 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 software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructure.

Easy to Use

Proofpoint Email Encryption operates transparently to end users without requiring software downloads or the installation and maintenance of desktop or mobile encryption clients. Proofpoint's email encryption services automatically encrypts and decrypts sensitive email 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 Email 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 Email 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 email security compliance policies, right at the gateway.
  
  
• Regulatory Compliance, data loss prevention and email content security policies are consistently and accurately applied, as-needed.
  
  
• Eliminates encryption key management, backup and administration burdens through the Proofpoint Key Service™, using software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructure for secure, fully redundant key storage.