E-mail encryption now almost a necessity!

Issued by Global Research Partners for SecureData

Johannesburg, 03 Aug 2010

E-mail has become a vital business tool, so much so that analysts estimate that at least 80% of a company's intellectual property is contained in its e-mails.

However, since e-mail is transmitted as clear text over the Internet, it is susceptible to compromise by network 'sniffers' that monitor traffic for confidential, and ultimately profitable, information.

A natural desire to protect this increasing amount of sensitive e-mail-based information is fuelling the growth in e-mail encryption, as is the need to meet the legal requirements to comply with government privacy regulations, particularly in healthcare, financial and government services sectors. To maximise protection, an encryption solution should minimise the barriers to use.

Email Encryption from Trend Micro efficiently secures e-mail delivered to anyone with an e-mail address. It enables organisations to deliver information securely and helps them comply with legal regulations. Trend Micro's Private Post technology, developed by cryptographers at the University of Bristol, uses identity-based encryption (IBE) to address the limitations of earlier Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology, thus eliminating burdensome pre-registration and certificate management, as encrypted content is pushed from senders to recipients like any other e-mail.

Trend Micro Email Encryption Client is a software plug-in option for popular e-mail clients as it deploys without modifying existing business processes and integrates seamlessly with most existing e-mail infrastructures.

“Policy-based and client encryption are provided by Trend Micro to provide an overall encryption solution,” commented Lee Bristow, Product Manager at SecureData. “Policy-based encryption is offered through InterScan Messaging Hosted Security that automates the encryption of particular types of content while user-designated, while client-based encryption protects unique content in specific e-mails. Both efficiently deliver secure e-mail to anyone with an e-mail address.”

“As e-mail in many organisations already accounts for well over 95% of all that company's correspondence, it has become a desirable target for attack from both inside and outside sources,” concluded Yugan Reddy at SecureData. “To this end, encryption of e-mails is becoming a necessity rather than an unfortunate overhead.”

SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, is the sole sub-Saharan distributor for Trend Micro.

For further information, please contact Lee Bristow at tel. +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail leeb@securedata.co.za.

Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security, focuses on securing the exchange of digital information for businesses and consumers. A pioneer and industry vanguard, Trend Micro is advancing integrated threat management technology to protect operational continuity, personal information, and property from malware, spam, data leaks and the latest Web threats. Trend Micro's flexible solutions, available in multiple form factors, are supported 24/7 by threat intelligence experts around the globe. Many of these solutions are powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a next generation cloud-client content security infrastructure designed to protect customers from Web threats.

SecureData

SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.

SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.

For more information, visit SecureData at http://www.securedata.co.za

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