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 | | Home > Products > Adaptive E-Mail Encryption | | Digital Guardian Adaptive eMail Encryption Software | Many companies have purchased email encryption software to protect private, sensitive and valuable information communicated by email. These individual tools are effective, but as part of an overall data security and loss prevention strategy, they lack the integration required to be a complete solution. Email encryption software should be an integral part of a greater data security solution in which security policies can be uniformly defined and enforced in the context of the business processes they enable. This enables data classification, monitoring, control, email encryption and file encryption controls to be described and enforced in a common way. It also means that the monitoring and auditing of data usage and movement is collected holistically across a single system and reported in aggregated and more actionable formats.
The Digital Guardian Difference
The Adaptive E-Mail Encryption Module (AME) extends Digital Guardian's comprehensive monitoring and control polices to perform on the fly, automated email encryption and capture the associated data usage and movement in a single integrated solution. AME uses patented data encryption and simplified key management technology to flexibly apply encryption to protect email content and attached files containing proprietary and sensitive information. AME provides: - Automated encryption enforcement avoiding the requirement that employees remember to apply encryption
- Flexible encryption enforcement, applying email encryption only when needed
- Automated key management as part of the Digital Guardian secure architecture greatly simplifying system management
- Support for Microsoft® Outlook/Exchange and Lotus® Notes/Domino protecting content and attachments with AES-256 encryption
- WinZip password based collaborative encryption designed to support mobile, joint venture, outsourcing and other partner related work environments
- Centralized visibility, auditing and reporting enabling security managers to understand what encrypted data moved in emails and as attachments as well as what did not, giving visibility into compliance with corporate policies and privacy.
 | | | The Problem with Point Products
Many companies have taken a tactical approach to data security; putting out the next fire without stepping back to look at the reason the fire started. This “seeing trees and not the forest” approach leads IT departments down the path of managing multiple security solutions and forces them to deal with multiple vendors, multiple licenses, multiple support issues and so on. Although this is a painful and costly way to run an IT department, it is a reality in today’s world.
But in the world of data security, the point product approach is fraught with peril. This is because sensitive data moves across more than just email or systems protected by other point products as part of a normal business process. The policies that protect data must be uniform in their application to the data across complete business processes. If they are not, unseen gaps in security programs are created. For example, you have an email encryption tool with a set of policies, a content monitoring tool with another set of policies, and a end point device tool with yet another set of policies and so on.
All of these policies will describe data and enforce controls in very different ways. As experienced security managers know, in an enterprise environment this is an unmanageable model. It can lead to flaws in the protection of data and makes it nearly impossible to collect, aggregate and report on data movement and usage in a actionable way.
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