Entrust® Web Mail Helps Organizations Comply with Regulatory Guidelines Through Secure External Email Delivery
Organizations have flexibility to choose from Secure Web-based or S/MIME format when sending messages to external partners or customers
26 Jan 2004
Dallas, TX - Entrust, Inc. [NASDAQ: ENTU], a global leader in securing digital identities and information, today announced several enhancements to the Entrust® Secure Messaging Solution including a flexible, standards-based method to help organizations comply with regulatory guidelines by delivering secured email messages to external customers or partners via the Web.
The Entrust Secure Messaging Solution integrates with a broad range of enterprise email environments including Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook/Exchange. The method of delivery for all outbound email communication to partners and customers can be centrally defined as either Web-based or S/MIME format and automatically applied on a per recipient basis.
The new Web-based delivery option, Entrust Entelligence WebMail Center 7.1, offers organizations the flexibility to choose the delivery method for these communications, without impacting the way users currently work. This new development allows organizations to easily share sensitive information with a diverse range of recipients using a variety of email clients or Web mail services such as Yahoo! or Hotmail. To help prevent unauthorized access to these messages, organizations can take advantage of Entrust's zero footprint certificate-based solution for strong authentication. Recipients of secured email are able to reply to the sender with the same level of security as the original email.
The Entrust Secure Messaging Solution protects email content and attachments at all times. As the market focus on sound corporate governance practice with Information Security Governance intensifies, the solution is a strong candidate to help organizations mitigate the risk of information exposure. It helps make sensitive communications private to further compliance with various regulatory guidelines. These guidelines include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and laws such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999.
"We recognize that organizations and their customers and partners have heterogeneous messaging environments and a growing need to protect information beyond the four walls of the corporation," said Leah Macmillan, vice-president of Secure Desktop Applications, Entrust, Inc. "The addition of the secure Web mail delivery feature within our messaging solution can give our customers the flexibility to leverage their existing investment in a web portal to securely communicate with their customers or partners."
The Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center 7.1 is expected to be commercially available this week.
Unlike other boundary-based security solutions that only encrypt e-mails as they leave the organization, the Entrust Secure Messaging Solution protects e-mail messages from 'end-to-end'. This means that messages are protected in transit, through to delivery at the recipient's desktop.
Entrust will host a Secure Messaging Web Seminar on Feb. 10 which will include representatives from KPMG and the US Department of Energy. Please register at the following URL: http://www.entrust.com/events/messaging.htm
This press release contains forward looking statements relating to a new product that Entrust expects to release and the expected benefits of such new product, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward looking statements are delays or failure to complete development and/or testing of the Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center, failure of the Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center to support or interoperate with various email clients and/or services used by typical enterprise and government customers, delay or default by third parties retained by Entrust to assist with the development and/or support of the Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center, delays in the training of Entrust's sales/marketing forces in respect to the Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center, undetected software errors or bugs in the Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center, competitive pressures, market acceptance of the Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center, changes in customer requirements, governmental regulations including failure to procure the necessary export classification for the Entrust Entelligence Web Mail Center, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Entrust's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation Entrust's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003. Entrust cautions investors that it might not update any or all of the foregoing forward-looking statements.