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Winning company: CipherTrust
Winning product: IronMail appliance
If you don't think messaging is imperative to your business, take away the mail server for a few days and see how many calls you get from employees. Better yet, think of how you accomplished your job before e-mail. (We remember something about telephones, fax machines, paper memos. . . .)
Back to reality. In 2005, we looked closely at the security of messages crossing the network. We tested some e-mail encryption products that bolt onto e-mail systems and others that provide new features for the encryption-savvy.
CipherTrust's IronMail appliance won the e-mail encryption product test as well as the Best of the Tests Messaging category. The appliance provided strong encryption delivery performance and incredibly easy installation, garnering a score of 4.1 out of 5. "We were up and running with a base configuration in minutes," said Network World Lab Alliance member Travis Berkley. Installation is easy because CipherTrust delivers appliances, preconfigured to your specs, that are simply slipped into a rack and turned on, he said.
Also impressive, Berkley noted, is that a customer can take its corporate brand (logo, colors, Web design) and redraw the CipherTrust interface to match that corporate look and feel.
While the test focused on CipherTrust's gateway-to-user e-mail encryption using its staging-server module, the company also offers gateway-to-gateway encryption. This latter method can be best for supporting standards and securing ongoing business relationships, such as with partners and customers, as well as in supporting multiple technologies, such as SSL/Transport Layer Security, Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions and OpenPGP.
Since our test, CipherTrust launched TrustedSource Portal, a free resource that offers precise information about an e-mail sender's reputation by domain and IP address. It also launched IronMail Version 6.0 (we tested Version 5.0.1), which provides deeper integration with TrustedSource, has enhancements to outbound messaging-security features (including dictionary correlation and customized reports), offers customizable dashboards and has tighter ties with Active Directory.
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