Being in the Healthcare industry; my company has a need to be able to send confidential information over email. To do this, obviously, we must encrypt the data. Since we used PGP for our whole disk encryption, we went with their Gateway Email solution to handle our secure email.
Installing PGP Gateway Email was simple. We fired up another VM and installed PGP Universal Server 3.0. I created a policy to allow only certain users to send encrypted email(licensing issues). I also specified in the policy to allow outside users to only access the secure email via a web portal.
PGP Gateway Email had everything we wanted. Our employees simply put a certain phrase into the subject line of an email and it will be encrypted by our server. So far everything has worked well and our staff has welcomed the ability to email the information instead of fax!
Cryptography, Security
Well it looks like Symantec bought PGP and Guardian Edge; two very popular encryption suites. As a user of PGP’s products, I am very worried about what will happen to the functionality of the product, but also to the brand as well.
PGP has a long history of turmoil. I fear that symantec will treat PGP like they did Backup Exec; make it huge and bloated.
While many say that they plan on taking Guardian Edge’s products and putting them under PGP’s management structure; I will wait to see what comes of this.
I’m sure licensing costs are about to go up as well.
Cryptography, Security
The company I work for now is in the Healthcare Industry. We have a number of users with field devices and due to the new HIPAA regulations, all of the hard drives must be encrypted.
After years of toiling with encryption as a hobby; I finally have a chance to deploy and manage enterprise level encryption!
We have decided on using PGP Whole Disk Encryption. After reading through the manual and setting up the server and a few clients; this is a relatively easy platform to work on. So far I have been very happy with it.
One more new skill under my belt.
Cryptography, Security
