E-mail encryption

Encryption won't solve all your security problems, but these days there's no excuse for not protecting sensitive data whether it's in e-mail, sitting in a database or on a backup tape on the way to your offsite storage facility.

You've got mail
E-mail encryption is becoming a necessity for protecting sensitive information.

CipherTrust tops encryption field
In this Clear Choice Test, we look at six e-mail encryption products: CipherTrust IronMail, Entrust Entelligence, PGP Universal Series 500, PostX Secure E-mail, Tumbleweed MailGate and ZipLip Secure Messaging Suite.

Who's minding the data store?
Encrypting e-mail is a good start, but it doesn't address the security of data sitting on servers and back-up systems. And it doesn't protect data being transported to offsite back-up facilities, a lesson several companies learned the hard way this year when their tapes containing sensitive customer information were lost in transit.

Toronto investment company turns to e-mail outsourcing with encryption
Outsourced e-mail archive service provider Fortiva knew encrypting sensitive Microsoft Exchange e-mails was critical to building customer trust.

How we did it
How we tested the six e-mail encryption systems.

CenturionMail provides strong software with desktop encryption
Though CenturionSoft's CenturionMail 3.0 did not meet the criteria for our server-based testing, its software is quite good, so we've included a brief summary of what it offers.

NetResults chart
Breakdown of how each of the six e-mail encryption products scored in our tests.