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PGP CORPORATION SHIPS NEW SELF-MANAGING SECURITY ARCHITECTURE,
DELIVERING AUTOMATIC SECURE MESSAGING AND INFORMATION STORAGE
Mitigates corporate risk and manages governance and regulatory
requirements while securing confidential business assets and
intellectual property
London, UK/15 September, 2003
– PGP Corporation, the recognized leader in secure
messaging and information storage, today unveiled PGP®
Universal at the Gartner Security Summit 2003 in London. PGP
Universal is the world's first security architecture to
shift the burden of securing email messages and attachments from
the desktop level to the network level in a way that is automatic
and entirely transparent to users. The technology has undergone
extensive testing and is already in use by large enterprises
worldwide. The first release of PGP Universal is available
immediately.
Commitments
When PGP Corporation was formed and the core PGP assets were
reacquired a year ago, the company announced three guiding
principles; continuity, relationship, and innovation. During the
past year, PGP Corporation's public focus has been on
continuity and relationships-upgrading and introducing new versions
of its existing products, expanding relationships with its loyal
customer base, developing and training sales channels worldwide,
and establishing significant business alliances. At the same time,
PGP Corporation has privately made a major investment in technical
innovation.
"From the start, we envisioned a technology that would
eliminate the barriers to achieving universal, enterprise-wide
information security," said Phillip Dunkelberger, PGP
President and CEO. "We are today announcing and shipping
an innovative new architecture that raises the standard for
corporate email security, making possible what was not possible in
the past. We built PGP Universal to be so flexible and
cost-effective that companies can make the transition from securing
a few individuals to protecting all their information
assets."
Architecture Goals
Added Mr. Dunkelberger, "Our technology vision extends
beyond enterprise-wide secure email. In the future, the PGP
Universal technology foundation will also address enterprise
security needs for instant messaging, mobile devices, data storage,
and other technologies at the network protocol level."
Technology Advances Automate Secure Messaging
"Privacy concerns and regulatory initiatives like HIPAA,
Sarbanes-Oxley and others, coupled with widespread awareness of the
security risks posed by unsecured email have driven many
enterprises to look for technical solutions in this area,"
said Ray Wagner, Research Director for Information Security
Strategies for Gartner, Inc. "To date, however, very few
organizations have widely deployed solutions due to concerns over
cost, convenience, interoperability, and manageability.
Network-based, self-assembling approaches could offset current
limitations and prove attractive to enterprise
customers."
Announcing PGP Universal
PGP Universal is a new architecture and product family built on
trusted and proven PGP technology. Its new network proxy- and
protocol-based approach provides full end-to-end security in a way
that overcomes current deployment, management, usability, and cost
objections. PGP Universal makes possible a dramatic change in how
organizations think about information security, allowing them to
secure all their information assets in a practical, transparent,
and cost-effective manner.
Executive and Business Management can now achieve
organization-wide compliance with legislative regulations, minimize
non-compliance risk, and meet employee and customer privacy
requirements at a practical cost by utilizing PGP
Universal's:
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User transparency - allows users to concentrate on
business requirements without the burden of learning and adhering
to policy and using desktop-oriented security solutions
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Automatic central security policy - provides uniform
compliance with policy and regulations by moving enforcement from
the desktop to the network
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Two-way policy enforcement - extends internal policy
enforcement to external suppliers, partners, outsourcers, and
customers
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Digital signatures - protects against falsified or spoofed
company and employee communications
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Immediate, incremental, and scalable deployment - allows
benefits to be realized immediately without major investment in
IT or related organizations
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Low cost of ownership - achieved by eliminating existing
burdens (desktop software, user training and support) and not by
adding to existing IT, email, and network infrastructure
Network, Email, and IT Management can now deploy an
organization-wide information security solution without changing
existing network, email, or digital certificate configurations with
PGP Universal's:
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Implementation transparency - achieved through proxy- and
protocol-based technology implemented at the transport layer, not
the application layer
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Interoperability and standards compatibility - achieved by
supporting common and standard network protocols (SMTP, POP,
IMAP, MAPI, Notes)
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Certificate and message format compatibility - achieved by
supporting and being interoperable among OpenPGP, X.509, and
S/MIME standards
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Self-managing security architecture - permits automatic
key generation and lifecycle management, automatic encryption and
decryption, and digital signatures
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Incremental deployment - allows organizations to deploy
according to corporate policies rather than technology
limitations
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No user support - eliminates user involvement so IT
organizations no longer need to deploy desktop security software
or train and support users
Information Security Management can now realize their full
organizational charter of implementing organization-wide solutions
with automatic and uniform policy enforcement with PGP
Universal's:
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Central, two-way security policy management - applied to
all employees, partners, outsourcers, and customers, on both
outgoing and incoming email
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Network-based policy enforcement - moves from the desktop
to the network, eliminating user costs and involvement while
providing central policy control
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Self-managing security architecture - permits automatic
key generation and lifecycle management, automatic encryption and
decryption, and digital signatures
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Single solution - delivers security beyond the firewall
(external), inside the firewall (internal), to all types of
recipients in a single, scalable solution
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Keyless recipient management - permits policy enforcement
for recipients without keys, using PGP Universal Web Messenger
and PGP Universal Satellite
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Certificate- and message format-agnostic - integrates and
interoperates with existing X.509 and S/MIME deployments
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Additional decryption keys (ADKs) - gives organizations
the ability to recover information, when necessary
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Trusted technology foundation - builds on the existing,
proven PGP technology toolkit and includes product source code
for peer review
"After a promising evaluation, we have decided to use
PGP Universal on a trial basis in our company," said Don
Michniuk, Corporate Manager of Information Security, Bechtel
Corporation. "By shifting security from the desktop to the
network, PGP Universal reduces the need to rely on users to comply
with security policy. This new architecture makes it possible to
set and enforce a domain-based security policy uniformly and
automatically for all messages, as well as to extend strong email
security to all users."
PGP Universal Relieves Organizational Concerns about Information
Security
By enabling enterprise-wide security of information assets, PGP
Universal helps organizations mitigate corporate risk and manage
governance and regulatory requirements. With PGP Universal,
organizations can secure confidential business assets, intellectual
property, and ensure customer and employee information privacy both
internally and externally. Communications with partners,
contractors, outsourcers, and suppliers, as well as shareholders
and the media, can be uniformly secured and digitally signed.
PGP Universal Availability
The first release of PGP Universal is available immediately
through the PGP Certified Solution Partner program managed by
Ingram Micro, Inc. in the United States and Canada and by PGP
distributors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan,
Asia/Pacific, and Latin America. For information, see
www.pgp.com/partners/universal.html
About PGP Corporation
The recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and
information storage, PGP Corporation develops, markets, and
supports products used by a broad installed base of enterprises,
businesses, governments, individuals, and cryptography experts to
secure proprietary and confidential information.
During the past ten years, PGP® technology has built a
global reputation for open and trusted security products. The PGP
Corporation family of products ranges from automatic, self-managing
network-based solutions for enterprises to individual desktop
solutions. Venture funding is provided by DCM-Doll Capital
Management and Venrock Associates. Contact PGP Corporation at
www.pgp.com or +1 650 319
9000.
Media & analyst contacts for PGP Corporation:
John Tran
Neale-May & Partners
+1 650 328 5555 ext. 277
jtran at nealemay dot
com
Franz Miltenberger
Central
European Communications GmBH
+ 49
(0) 811 600 95 20
f.miltenberger@ceuroc.com
Rory MacDonald
Kudos
Marketing, Ltd.
+ 44
(0) 1794 518 171
rory@kudos-marketing.co.uk
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