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Solution Brief

Encryption Fundamentals for Small Business

Would you post your Social Security number in a store window? Publish your medical record in a newspaper ad? Write your banking credentials on a postcard and mail it?

If you’re not using email encryption, you may as well be doing all of the above— not just with your data, but with the personal information your customers entrust to you. Email travels over the wide-open public internet, passing among servers, routers and switches to get from the sender to the recipient. Its contents can be intercepted and read at any of those stops along the way. Email just wasn’t designed with privacy and security in mind. 

Proofpoint Essentials Email Encryption helps small businesses reduce the risk of data loss by encrypting sensitive email automatically. Download the solutions brief to learn more.