PGP Desktop Email provides enterprises with an automatic, transparent encryption solution for securing internal and external confidential email communications. Organizations can minimize the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.

 

 

 

  Powerful, End-to-End Email Encryption

PGP Desktop Email can be used with PGP Universal Server to manage existing policies, users, keys, and configurations, expediting deployment and policy enforcement. PGP Desktop Email  can also be used in combination with other PGP encryption  applications to provide multiple layers of security.

 

Key Features

• Enables true end-to-end email encryption using standards-based OpenPGP and S/MIME message formats.

• Provides automatic encryption and decryption of sensitive email without changing the user experience.

• Operates as a proxy to increase performance while removing the need for application- and version-specific plug-ins. Works with standard email clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird, Lotus Notes and more.

• Integrates with PGP Universal Server to allow centrally created email protection policies to be distributed and managed.

Easy, Automatic Operation

• Once deployed, PGP Desktop Email is transparent—users simply continue to work as usual. The software automatically protects messages in the background, ensuring that users never forget to secure email and attachments.

• Automatic messaging security – Automatically encrypts, decrypts, digitally signs, and verifies email messages according to individual or centrally managed policies.

• Secure clientless email delivery – When deployed with PGP Universal Gateway Email, delivers messages securely to external users that lack an email encryption solution.

• Multiple ways to protect data – Protect sensitive data in transport using PGP® Zip from Symantec™ and PGP® Self-Decrypting Archive from Symantec™ and in storage using PGP® Virtual Disk from Symantec™.

• Secure file deletion – Securely and permanently eliminates all traces of sensitive files from a disk.

Enforced Security Policies

Email policies can be set based on sender, individual recipient, recipient domain, keyword, or content, enabling confidential messages to be secured automatically with no changes required to user behavior. Policy definitions can be set and audited using PGP Universal Server.

• Offline Policy Controls – Enforce policy for offline users y controlling what happens to email when the PGP Universal Server cannot be reached by the PGP Desktop Email client.

• Client controls – Lock down which features are enabled, visible to the user, and enforced - including optional manual encrypt and sign buttons.

• Strong authentication options – Provide two-factor authentication using smart cards.

Accelerated Deployment

Used together, PGP Desktop Email and PGP Universal Server’s unified management console establish, enforce, and update email security policy in real time. This combination reduces the time and effort required to deploy end-to-end email encryption. 

• Rapid deployment process – Speeds deployment by automating the installation and configuration process.