Need for Secure Email…

Globally expanding businesses have created the need for cost-effective and confidential methods of communication. Previous attempts at secure communications included confidential faxes, diskettes via courier and closed-door meetings. These methods were inconvenient and insufficient to meet the pressures of time and budget constraints. Secure e-mail (using your existing e-mail messaging system) alleviates the need to use inadequate communication methods and enables confidential information to be shared between employees, customers and partners over private and public networks.

Key Benefits and Features of Netrust Secure Mail

Unique Email Security Values

• Interoperability - Uses open standards such as S/MIME and X.509 certificates.
• Ease of use - Users need not understand PKI to send and receive secure e-mail.
• Security - Messages are protected even in storage and transit.
• Automated CRL checking - Automatically checks the status of certificates when sending and receiving messages. This ensures that only trusted certificates are used to encrypt data.

Trust Management

• Easy recipient lookup - Automated certificate retrieval - When you type a recipient's name in the To: field, NSM retrieves the recipient's certificate without requiring intervention from the user.
• Non-repudiation - A message signed using NSM guarantees that you write the exact contents of the message.
• Mandatory passwords - NSM requires the entry of a password to access your digital ID. This means that when you receive a message you can be sure of the sender's identity. With optional passwords, anyone with access to the sender's browser can impersonate the sender.
• Message integrity - When you receive a signed message, NSM verifies that the contents are not altered after the message is signed. You can be certain that the message you are reading is identical to the message that is sent.

Integrated Security with Native Email Clients

• Native look and feel - NSM integrates security smoothly and naturally into the underlying e-mail client. It maintains the look and feel of your current e-mail solution so users require little or no training to communicate with enhanced security.
• Simple user interface - Ease of use through the grouping of advanced features under a single menu option. This removes advanced features from view and simplifies the user interface.

Transparent Key and Certificate Management

• Automated security management - Software handles key and certificate updates.
• Automatic key update - Netrust keys are updated together with the certificates. This provides enhanced security compared to other e-mail solutions, which simply update certificates without changing the underlying key security.
• Key backup and recovery - Ease of use through continuous access to encrypted e-mail, even when a key is lost or damaged. You can confidently encrypt information knowing your keys are backed up.
• Key history management - NSM automatically retrieves the appropriate key needed to access encrypted data.
• Single login to Netrust-ready applications - NSM provides ease of use and enhanced security by enabling you to access all Netrust-ready applications including Web, VPN, ERP and desktop solutions using one login. This minimizes the number of passwords to remember which decreases the likelihood of you forgetting your password.