Email Encryption
End-to-end, Boundary and Web-based Protection
Overview of Email Encryption Products
Echoworx has a range of email encryption products that can be used individually or in combination depending on an organization's requirements. These applications are delivered from a centrally managed encryption platform that can be deployed on-premises or hosted as a managed service.
| End-to-end Encryption | Boundary Encryption | Web-based Encryption |
 Secure Mail |
 Secure Mail Gateway |
 Encrypted Message eXchange |
| Secure Mail provides standards-based desktop email security by enabling encryption, decryption and digital signatures with popular email applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and on BlackBerry devices. | Secure Mail Gateway is an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage boundary encryption solution that enables organizations to enforce encryption policies without any need for client software or changes existing workflows. | EMX is a web-based portal allows communities of interest to communicate and exchange information privately using industry trusted PKI and S/MIME technology for strong encryption and digital signatures. |
Why Email is a Key Information Security Risk
Number of work-related emails sent and received by the average business user in a week:
675
Corporate intellectual property that resides in email data stores:
75%
IT security professionals who feel email is a common leakage channel:
65%
Outbound email that poses a legal, financial or regulatory risk:
19%
The vast amount of corporate intellectual property that is available in email coupled with relative ease of access to this data from internal and external sources makes email a top information security risk.
Despite the many investments in corporate IT security over the last several years, organizations routinely allow their employees to send unencrypted emails that contain confidential corporate information over internal networks, open wireless networks, SMTP proxies, SMTP servers of their home ISP, or through a hotel network. Even when Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections are used between the email client and the server or between organizations, messages typically remain unencrypted in the local email store, on internal email servers, on back-up tapes, in corporate archives and as the message travels to its ultimate destination.
Messages that are not encrypted are sent from an email server in plain text, typically in a MIME format via SMTP or IMAP. A message can travel across several internal and / or external mail servers on the way from the sender's desktop to the intended recipient; at any point along the way the message is vulnerable to being opened, read and tampered.
To learn more about common threats, points of attack, and strategies to prevent email data loss download our recent whitepaper Email Data Loss - A Key Information Security Risk.