Entrust Security Solutions — Winter 2008

BlackBerry & EMS — Simple, Secure E-mail Encryption

As employees are increasingly un-tethered from the desktop, Research in Motion's (RIM) extensive line of popular BlackBerry devices have become one of the cornerstones of office productivity — regardless of industry. From routine correspondence to conducting business-critical tasks, BlackBerry smartphones are relied upon to facilitate communication and efficiency. With the advent of this technology, organizations need to consider how corporate sensitive information and intellectual property can be kept secure and confidential.

While RIM has implemented built-in S/MIME encryption to help secure communication, it inherits the traditional user challenges of complex certificate management, thus becoming difficult and time-consuming to execute. The result is that business and productivity is impacted; or worse yet, users avoid using encryption and sensitive data can be compromised.

Entrust has the answer. The Entrust Entelligence Messaging Server (EMS) is an e-mail encryption appliance designed to automate the encryption process by making secure communication simple for both senders and recipients.

RIM developed a software server plug-in with Entrust that automates the encryption process. BlackBerry users can simply set their default BlackBerry capability to "encrypt for EMS," which will direct all outgoing secure messages to the e-mail encryption server. EMS, in turn, handles the tasks of harvesting existing recipient certificates, setting up delivery types, and even creating secure e-mail capabilities for recipients (usually external to the organization) who do not have encryption in place.

With EMS, secure e-mail becomes simple for your users and allows them to communicate with virtually anyone, from anywhere — all while protecting sensitive data.

What about organizations that need the ability to scan messages? Content-scanning is a very common requirement today and ensures messages do not contain viruses or malicious code. In addition, more and more organizations are scanning content for acceptable use and regulatory compliance.

With EMS, encrypted messages sent from a BlackBerry are temporarily decrypted and sent securely to the content scanner for inspection. Once complete, the message is re-encrypted by EMS and sent securely to recipients. The encryption processes can co-exist with content-scanning, helping organizations enable their workforce in a secure, confident fashion.

For more information on seamless, cost-efficient methods to encrypt communication within your e-mail environment, as well as secure BlackBerry communication, visit our Entrust Entelligence Messaging Server page.

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