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Spicing up the internal world

As we learned standard email clients support S/MIME and therefore make end to end encryption
possible without any extra software. However without any additional plug-ins, the end-user is
responsible for encrypting emails and must be trained accordingly.

Any risks can be eliminated through the deployment of email client plug-ins which take over the
responsibility for activating encryption and for selecting the appropriate encryption method
according to centrally configured security policies.

Even with state of the art technology, security is only good when it is accepted and used correctly
by employees.

Summary

Public key infrastructures provide the corner stone of secure email communication. It does not
matter what encryption technologies the communication partners use or even if they have a method
of decrypting messages.

Secure Email Gateways can ensure that emails are delivered securely from the employee’s
computer right to the recipient. For organizations, companies and public agencies that do not use
use mobile end devices and do not have any secrets to hide from their mail server admins, a
Secure Email Gateway is all they need.
For all others Organizational End-to-End combined with Personal End-to-End delivers a universal
solution for secure email communication that protects emails in transit and in rest.

About The Author

Dr. Burkhard Wiegel is the founder and CEO of Zertificon Solutions. He
graduated in computer science and obtained his doctorate at the
Technical University in Berlin. He has published many papers on secure
email and was a pioneer in the IT security market, long before email
security became a mainstream topic.

His research and insights led to the development of Zertificon's Z1
SecureMail Gateway – one of Europe's leading email encryption
solutions.

Burkhard can be reached online at LinkedIn and our company website https://www.zertificon.com/
He will be available for meetings at the German Pavilion on next years RSA® February 29 – March
4, 2016 in San Francisco. Zertificon is looking for resellers in the USA.

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