Postini Announces Availability of Postini Encryption Manager as Part of Groundbreaking Federated Encryption Strategy 2/13/2006
Services Provide Policy-Based Encryption for Private, Secure Business-to-Business and Business-to-End-User Communications
RSA CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 13, 2006 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Postini, the global leader in Integrated Message Management, today announced the immediate availability of Postini Encryption Manager, a suite of managed security services to encrypt and secure connections between email servers and email message content. Encryption Manager, with the Connection Security Module, builds on Postini's industry leading support for the TLS (transport layer security) encryption standard to provide comprehensive policy management tools for establishing and maintaining secure networks between messaging servers. The Zix Encryption Module provides for full content-level encryption to secure message content and enable delivery of this content to end users where server- to-server security is not available or not desired.
Postini Encryption Manager solutions are designed to overcome the complexity, incompatibility, and costs associated with multiple encryption standards and technologies, paving the way for an industry-first federated encryption managed service.
"The challenge with implementing a real-world encryption solution is twofold. First, a company needs to determine which of the innumerable market standards are required to support their customers' needs. Then, IT must implement desktop and/or gateway-level encryption requirements, provide key management capabilities, and enable the selective provisioning and encryption disposition across each of these incompatible technologies," said Scott Petry, founder, chief technical officer and executive vice president of product development at Postini. "With the launch of Encryption Manager, Postini is establishing a hierarchy of service-based encryption solutions that address the broad, real-world, secure messaging needs of our customers. With a common policy framework and a common management platform, our customers can create private networks between trusted companies, and employ numerous content-level encryption solutions without the burden and costs of traditional PKI solutions."
Today, Postini operates one of the world's largest TLS encryption networks, processing tens of millions of encrypted messages per day. With the Encryption Manager Connection Security Module, Postini enhances its TLS support to provide comprehensive policy-based management for server-to-server connections. The Connection Security Module can enforce mandatory domain- level TLS connections, restrict connections that cannot be encrypted, and generate alerts when TLS policy cannot be enforced. IT has command and control over which messages must be delivered via mandatory TLS to which domains.
For instances where server-to-server encryption cannot be established, or where connection level security is not preferred, the Zix Encryption Module allows for encryption of message content. Based on Zix Corporation (Nasdaq: ZIXI) encryption technology, the Zix Encryption Module is designed to eliminate the complexities of software installation and ongoing key management. Customers are able to send encrypted email to anyone, regardless of whether a pre-existing encryption solution is installed with the recipient. With the Zix Encryption Module, a policy can be established to encrypt all messages from a sender or group of senders, or can encrypt all messages flagged as "sensitive" or "confidential." Postini will encrypt the message, post the message in a secure web portal, and notify the recipient of the message. The recipient can authenticate with the Postini system and securely read and reply to the message. The recipient also has the ability to install their own key, allowing end-point delivery of subsequent encrypted messages. Encryption Manager supports the Zix encryption standard today, with support for PGP, S/MIME, and other market standard encryption solutions planned for deployment shortly. With the federation of numerous content-level encryption standards, the Postini Encryption Manager enables a new era of seamless interoperability across the market standards.
Using Postini's new encryption service, IT does not need to build and maintain dedicated secure networks such as VPNs between partners. And Encryption Manager offers comprehensive policy-based encryption capabilities protecting companies from the risk of users who may forget to encrypt sensitive or regulated messages. This functionality is available to Postini customers seamlessly, without the installation of new hardware or software, and without the ongoing burden of key management. By federating various standards, Postini maximizes interoperability across technologies.
"As an outsourced managed services solution, Postini Encryption Manager makes it easy to securely communicate directly with email recipients," said Ralph Comulada, vice president, Infrastructure & Network Services of National Financial Partners Corp., an early Postini customer of Encryption Manager. "It's a critical requirement for many organizations to encrypt their email communications to customers and partners, and we're pleased to be working with a respected leader such as Postini for advanced, integrated encryption capabilities delivered via a managed service."
About Postini
Postini is the global leader in Integrated Message Management, providing compliance, security, availability, and visibility solutions for corporate email and instant messaging. Postini offers a complete suite of services including message archiving and discovery, spam and virus blocking, and messaging continuity. The company's powerful managed services infrastructure seamlessly integrates with customers' infrastructure, providing uncompromising security for more companies than any other provider in the world. Postini's services protect organizations from a wide range of threats, reduce compliance and legal risks, ensure reliable communications, and enable the intelligent management and enforcement of enterprise policies that protect companies' intellectual property, reputations and business relationships. For more information contact Postini at 866-767-8461, or visit http://www.postini.com .
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This news seems to be very good and i think it can get back to what it used to be at around the 4's
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