Enterprise secure messaging?

PGP Corporation has a new version of its PGP Universal product which extends the enterprise information security architecture to a broader user base and allows improved interfacing with existing email systems and security infrastructures, shifting the burden of securing email messages and attachments from the desktop to the network in a way that is both automatic and transparent to users.

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The PGP Universal product line focusses on three A's.

* First automate processes (encryption, digital signatures, key management) to make email security simple.

* Second, aggregate tasks and functions (desktop and network email security, PKI infrastructure) under a single architecture to make systems management more effective;

* Third accelerate an enterprise's ability to quickly deploy secure messaging to all critical employees and external partners Functional enhancements in PGP

Universal 1.1 include:

S/MIME and X.509 Certificates support--, in addition to OpenPGP keys and messages.

This allows PGP Universal to interoperate with PKI deployments, adding email security to existing PKI investments Microsoft Exchange MAPI support-- PGP Universal Satellite -PGP's client software used within the Universal infrastructure-now supports Microsoft Outlook users who use MAPI to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server, providing both gateway and end-to-end email security.

PGP Universal Satellite Mac OS X-PGP Universal Satellite now supports Mac OSX as well as Windows clients.

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