CipherTrust Encryption - Protecting Messages Outside the Network

While few will debate the value of encrypting messages that contain sensitive information, many security officers have resisted installing an encryption solution on their enterprise e-mail network due to the multiple incompatible technologies available, difficulty in communicating encryption requirements to end users, and challenges of getting end users to enforce the corporate policies.

IronMail solves these problems with an integrated, policy-based encryption solution that automates and enforces corporate IP protection policies with no end-user intervention. Just ask Network World Magazine, who in September 2005, named the CipherTrust Encryption solution the “Clear Choice Test” winner for enterprise email encryption.

Key Benefits and Functionality

Powerful Policy Engine

Leveraging CipherTrust’s award-winning, Automated Compliance Profiler policy engine, IronMail allows detailed policies to be enforced, making encryption decisions based upon hundreds of different attributes, including sender, recipient, content, domain, groups, attachments, and more. By removing end users from the decision-making process, IronMail ensures that the messages that require encryption get it.

Reduced Administrative Overhead

A key challenge in encryption is adapting to the needs of the recipient. Depending on their capabilities, different types of encryption may be most appropriate. With the help of IronMail’s policy engine, IronMail can dynamically select between different encryption methodologies to best fit the situation.

IronMail encrypts messages from gateway-to-gateway via industry standard TLS, and offers support for legacy systems such as S/MIME and OpenPGP through CipherTrust Secure Delivery. In addition, IronMail allows recipients with no encryption capabilities to receive encrypted messages from IronMail-protected senders via a familiar Web interface. The recipient has the ability to reply securely, keeping the encryption cycle intact on all legs of a sensitive message’s journey. IronMail allows multiple encryption techniques to be used in tandem, removing any questions that may arise over conflicting technologies.

IronMail's Policy Engine determines which communications need to be encrypted, and automatically chooses the most appropriate encryption technology based upon the recipient's technological capabilities

Easy Credential Set-Up

IronMail can import existing keys or generate appropriate credentials to support all encryption methods, ensuring that administrators do not have to be encryption experts.

Integration with PGP® Universal

The CipherTrust/PGP Compliance Bundle is the only hardened gateway offering to integrate powerful e-mail policy compliance and PGP Universal encryption capabilities into an easy-to-deploy and manage solution. The solution combines the market leading message scanning and policy enforcement technology within IronMail with PGP Universal’s world-class centrally managed encryption capabilities.

Integration with Voltage® Server

Through its relationship with VoltageTM, CipherTrust also offers the ability for users to have ongoing secure e-mail relationships using the Identity-Based Encryption Server.

Management and Usability

As an enterprise solution, IronMail was designed to reduce the strain on the IT networking staff by eliminating the need for end user training, i.e., transparent to end users. IronMail eliminates the headache of key management with an automated approach that updates encryption keys from a central console. By integrating with existing infrastructure through LDAP or Active Directory, IronMail provides a solution that works with your existing environment.

Just as important, IronMail was built for enterprise deployments. Within the IronMail solution, CipherTrust has built in a high-performance Message Transfer Agent (MTA) that effectively manages and routes millions of email messages a day. This extensible messaging platform allows the IronMail solution to be continually updated with new email security technologies and tools as they are developed.

Management Reporting

IronMail’s MTA provides administrators with automated logging and reporting, saving time and money. Instantly, administrators can access statistics on who is sending what type of emails to whom and when messages and attachments are opened. The IronMail dashboard provides a comprehensive view of the entire messaging infrastructure, giving administrators full visibility into message traffic.