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PGP Newsletter: Encryption Matters 2.0

Volume 1, Issue 3, March 2009

Cybersecurity and Smartphones:

Email Security Requires End-to-End Content Encryption

President Obama's use of a BlackBerry® has sparked conversation about mobile data protection solutions. How can you provide email security on your smartphones?

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The Truth About Data Breaches:

Most Result from Negligence, And Costs Continue to Rise

Each breached record costs an average of $132 in lost customer business, and $202 in total. Which industries have the highest costs?

Customer News

How Other Businesses Are Defending Their Data

How can you manage security of all the laptops used on 35 college campuses?

The University System in Georgia tells how »

Solutions News

PCI Compliance Is Not Enough

PCI-compliant Heartland Payment Systems, a large credit card payment processor, announced recently that its systems had been compromised.

Find out why PCI failed to prevent this attack »

Save Money with Secure PDF Delivery

Do you mail many documents to customers or partners? Improve your bottom line by digitizing them.

Learn what the cost savings can be by going paperless »

How to Manage the New TCG Drive Encryption Standard

Now that there is a uniform disk drive encryption standard, will it be better to provide your encryption the hard way or soft way?

Compare the advantages and disadvantages »

Crypto Coverage

Recent News Articles on PGP Solutions: A Sampling

Want to save money? SaaS is increasingly popular because it lowers customers' up-front investment in capital expenditures and staff time. The PGP® MSPN offering delivers on this. Learn more in Messaging News: “Pinching Pennies with SaaS”

Can spies be on time? The U.S. intelligence community's project to link the thousands of databases run by all 16 U.S. spy agencies has an unrealistic timeline, experts say. "They're under-estimating the speed at which it's going to get done and underestimating the conflicting budgets," says PGP Corporation CTO Jon Callas. Get details in InternetNews.com: “Fed Plan to Connect Intelligence Agencies Flawed”

U.S. President Obama is a BlackBerry® e-mail addict. But what about eavesdropping? The U.S. government uses special ciphers for secret information and they use different data networks from the public data networks, says PGP Corporation CEO Phil Dunkelberger. "Unless you're using point-to-point encryption technology...or the mail itself is encrypted, you would have exposure to people administering the network." See CNET: “Obama's New BlackBerry: The NSA's Secure PDA?”

Service & Support

Tips for Creating Strong Passphrases

How effective are the passwords and passphrases that you and your users have?

Tips for creating strong passphrases »

Quick, Easy Help with PGP® Desktop

Whenever you need help installing or configuring a PGP® Desktop application, you can immediately get step-by-step instructions.

Learn how to use PGP® KnowledgeBase »

32-Bit or 64-Bit? Who Knows?

When customers are selecting which version of PGP® Desktop applications to download, we're often asked, “How do I know if I have the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the Microsoft’ Windows XP or Vista operating system?”

Here's your answer from the Microsoft Knowledgebase »

Partner News:

A New Managed Service Provider

Small and mid-market businesses wanting hosted encryption can find an ideal solution within the PGP® Managed Service Provider Network (MSPN). Check out Converge Net, the newest PGP MSPN partner.