PGP PDF Messenger

Overview

Vast amounts of mission-critical information move in and out of businesses through email. Everyone expects instant availability of digital documents. However, the ability to ensure data confidentiality and verify its content and sender is one of the biggest security challenges today to any size organization. Concerns about protecting information privacy, preventing fraud, meeting ever tighter regulatory compliance guidelines, and secure, confirmed delivery of sensitive information are now vital requirements for all business communications. Unprotected email poses a critical risk to an enterprise’s most sensitive data: customer information, financial data, trade secrets, and other proprietary information. Exposure of this information can result in financial loss, legal ramifications, and brand damage.

PGP® PDF Messenger provides clientless email encryption for secure email communications with large groups of customers and partners. By encrypting data down to the individual recipient, PGP PDF Messenger protects data from unauthorized access in transit over the public Internet, at rest on recipient mail servers, and at the endpoint. With PGP PDF Messenger, organizations can minimize the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.

PGP PDF Messenger automatically secures email messages as they leave the enterprise network according to highly configurable encryption rules, eliminating the need for client software or user intervention. Leveraging the broad adoption of PDF reader software, PGP PDF Messenger enables enterprises to address regulatory requirements and data breach risks without requiring special software or using proprietary email attachment encryption software. Among its benefits are the following:

• Easy, automatic operation–Protects sensitive email from sender to recipient without changing the user experience.
• Enforced security policies–Automatically enforces data protection using centrally managed policies without storing messages.
• Accelerated deployment–Delivers email encryption to a broad range of users using the existing infrastructure.
• Reduced operation costs–Result from eliminating training and help desk costs through transparent, clientless operation.

FAQ

General

What is PGP PDF Messenger and why is it important?

PGP PDF Messenger is a product that permits secure communications with external recipients who do not already have an email security solution. By policy, PGP PDF Messenger delivers the messages as an encrypted PDF. PGP PDF Messenger allows recipients to use existing Adobe® Reader® clients to decrypt and display the encrypted message.

What business problem does PGP PDF Messenger solve?

Email sent to and from an organization can contain the most sensitive customer, patient, financial, or intellectual property data. Protection of this data is often mandated by government and industry regulations, and many organizations have well-established information security policies and audit processes. PGP PDF Messenger allows organizations to automate the protection of sensitive data in email according to policy, without client software, both within the enterprise and with customers and partners.

What are the key benefits of PGP PDF Messenger?

PGP PDF Messenger enables businesses to:

• Secure customer data and intellectual property–PGP PDF Messenger performs email encryption as messages leave the organization’s network securing the email message all the way to the recipient’s endpoint.
• Enhance data security without impacting productivity–Because it does not require client software for senders and recipients inside or outside the organization, PGP PDF Messenger does not affect the user's experience, workflow, or productivity.
• Leverage existing investments–Organizations with existing investments in email hygiene, outbound content compliance, and directory services can further automate data security protection and audit performance by using standard features of PGP PDF Messenger.

How does PGP PDF Messenger work?

PGP PDF Messenger operates as a mail proxy service at the gateway, delivering messages and attachments in encrypted PDF documents.

What is the end-user experience?

For end users inside the enterprise, there is no change to their email experience; email is encrypted by PGP PDF Messenger based on policy. Users outside the organization receive messages and attachments as encrypted PDF files.

Is PGP PDF Messenger a separate product from PGP Universal Gateway Email?

Yes, PGP PDF Messenger is available as a separate product that may be licensed by enterprises needing a tool to enable gateway-based encryption of messages as encrypted PDFs. PGP PDF Messenger also is available as one of the Secure Delivery options in PGP Universal Gateway Email.

Is the product source code available for download?

Yes. To validate the integrity of its products, PGP Corporation releases all product source code, including PGP PDF Messenger, for peer review. For more information, see PGP® Source Code.

How does PGP PDF Messenger relate to the PGP Encryption Platform?

PGP PDF Messenger is a PGP Encryption Platform–enabled application managed by PGP Universal Server. Account creation, key management, and policy enforcement are automated for all PGP Encryption Platform–enabled applications.