CipherTrust Boosts E-Mail Security

IronMail Secure Delivery supports a variety of encryption standards and allows companies to manage encrypted mail through policies enforced at the gateway, said Matt Anthony, director of marketing at CipherTrust, based here.

"Customers want to get the end user out of the equation," he said.

With Secure Delivery, IronMail now supports server-side PGP and S/MIME in addition to SSL/TLS.

The device also supports secure Web delivery if a recipient's mail server doesn't support other encryption methods, Anthony said. In that case, IronMail sends the recipient an e-mail containing a unique URL that when clicked on will open a secure browser session to open the contents of the message.

Customers can implement an array of policies through IronMail's Policy Manager to ensure that confidential data is encrypted when it's sent outside the organization, Anthony said.

For example, an administrator could set a policy to encrypt a message if it contains keywords such as "confidential" or a project code name. Administrators also can block unauthorized encrypted messages.

Rick Basich, president of National Business Group, a network integration firm also based here, said his company has had a lot of success selling IronMail, primarily for its antispam capabilities, and sees demand for Secure Delivery.

"This secure messaging technology looks like it's going to be pretty strong," he said. "There's some momentum starting to build with companies wanting this technology."

Health-care and financial services firms are particularly interested in secure e-mail "because their feet are to the fire to tighten things down," Basich said, referring to federal regulations affecting those industries.

But he added that Secure Delivery "is diverse enough to deploy in all types of organizations."

Secure Delivery is available with the purchase of an Iron Mail license key starting at $20,000.