Entrust's Secure E-mail Gateway offerings add flexibility with Adobe(R)
LiveCycle(TM) Policy Server content protection, enhanced Web Mail, and PGP
DALLAS, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU), a
world-leader in securing digital identities and information, today announced
the planned addition of several new delivery methods to its secure e-mail
gateway appliance, Entrust Entelligence(TM) Messaging Server. Building upon
its current capabilities of industry-standard S/MIME and secure web mail
communications, Entrust will be adding support for PGP, enhancing its Web mail
capabilities, and integrating with the Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server. As a
result, organizations will be able to centrally control how their email
messages will be protected, and can more flexibly adapt to the needs and
capabilities of internal and external message recipients.
In a recent report*, IDC, a leading IT market research firm, stated that
government regulations are requiring additional protection of information
associated with privacy and also company governance, and that e-mail
encryption is a best practice that can provide regulatory compliance. To
comply, organizations need a way to communicate sensitive information securely
and efficiently to a broad range of recipients, without relying on the user to
enforce policy. But email security is traditionally hampered by varied and
incompatible delivery formats and security capabilities demanded by
recipients, and compliance efforts are limited by inability to control what
recipients do once a message is received.
The Entrust Entelligence Messaging Server provides customers with
automatic protection of sensitive e-mail communications -- in a format that is
transparent to the sender, is driven by what protection level is required, and
is delivered to the recipient via the most suitable format. Security
credentials for external recipients are transparently managed at the gateway
on behalf of the organization.
As a part of the expanded delivery options, Entrust's secure e-mail
gateway is also being integrated with the Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server to
allow for the dynamic conversion of sensitive e-mail communications to
policy-protected Adobe PDF documents. This integration is an industry first,
and will provide organizations with the unique ability to protect e-mail
content persistently, long after the recipient receives the email. Content
protection applied to the PDF document can help prevent the document from
being printed, opened by unintended recipients, or cut and pasted, while
enforcing the expiry of the message contents.
"Adobe is pleased to be working with Entrust to bring persistent and
flexible content protection to enterprise email traffic," said Ivan Koon,
Senior Vice President, Intelligent Documents Business Unit at Adobe. "Our
combined solution offers a centrally managed approach to help customers meet
their compliance requirements. We believe the new Adobe LiveCycle Policy
Server adds significant value in a secure email environment, by ensuring that
message senders maintain control over what is done with their proprietary or
confidential information."
With the addition of new delivery methods, the Entrust Entelligence
Messaging Server will be able to handle a broad range of secure delivery
formats:
-- S/MIME: industry-standard support for Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes
environments that can be installed on the desktop for "end-to-end"
security or at the gateway for boundary-only encryption
-- WebMail Center: offers both a full-featured secure web mail portal and
an option for delivering encrypted HTML that eases secure
communications with customers or partners in various e-mail
environments
-- PGP: supports the automatic conversion of plaintext or S/MIME to PGP
and vice versa, and includes the centralized management of PGP
credentials
-- Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server: integration to help enable the policy-
driven protection of e-mail communications using content protection
capabilities delivered by the Adobe's LiveCycle Policy Server and
compatible capabilities in Adobe Acrobat(R) 7.0 software.
"Entrust has always been focused on bringing customer-driven products and
solutions to market," said Leah MacMillan, Vice President of Products &
Solutions at Entrust. "Offering greater flexibility in terms of delivery
options helps our customers more easily communicate securely with their
employees, partners and customers. Our customers can help meet their
acceptable use policies and regulatory compliance needs without relying on end
users to enforce policies, and with less concern about the email environment
or security level of the recipients."
The PGP and WebMail functionality is planned for commercial availability
in the summer of 2005, with the Adobe integration available later in the year.
For more information or see a preview of these capabilities, please visit
the Entrust booth #316 or Adobe booth #1342 at the RSA Conference, February
14th to 18th 2005. For more information about the Entrust Secure Messaging
Solution, please visit: http://www.entrust.com/messaging/
About Entrust
Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) is a world-leader in securing digital
identities and information. Over 1,400 enterprises and government agencies in
more than 50 countries use Entrust solutions to help secure the digital lives
of their citizens, customers, employees and partners. Our proven software and
services can help customers achieve regulatory and corporate compliance, while
helping to turn security challenges such as identity theft and e-mail security
into business opportunities. For more information on how Entrust can help
secure your digital life, please visit: http://www.entrust.com
* Source: IDC, Worldwide and North American Email Encryption 2004-2008
Forecast and 2003 Vendor Shares: Has Secure Email Finally Arrived? , IDC
# 32518, Dec 2004
Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, Inc. in the United States
and certain other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of
Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust Limited. All other company and product
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to new
capabilities of the Entrust Entelligence Messaging Server (collectively, the
"new offerings") that Entrust expects to release and the expected benefits of
such new offerings, and such statements involve a number of risks and
uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are
delays or failure to complete development and/or testing of these new
offerings, inability to license PGP-compatible technology from an appropriate
toolkit vendor, failure of these new offerings to support or interoperate with
various infrastructure and client software packages used by typical enterprise
and government customers, delays in the training of Entrust's sales/marketing
forces in respect to the new offerings, undetected software errors or bugs in
the new offerings, competitive pressures, market acceptance of the new
offerings, changes in customer requirements, governmental regulations
including failure to procure the necessary export classifications for the new
offerings, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time
to time in Entrust's periodic reports and registration statements filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation Entrust's
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2004.
Entrust cautions investors that it might not update any or all of the
foregoing forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Entrust, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.entrust.com
CONTACT:
Robert Vankirk of Entrust, Inc.,
+1-972-713-5834, robert.vankirk@entrust.com; or Amanda Rottier of
Dittus Communications, +1-202-715-1536,
amanda.rottier@dittus.com, for Entrust, Inc.
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