PGP Corporation announced the availability of upgrades to its PGP Encryption Platform. Six updated PGP Encryption Platform-enabled applications will enhance management, policy, and reporting capabilities as encryption is deployed across an organization to protect data wherever it lives or goes. Highlighted in this release as part of the PGP Encryption Platform's new Secure Delivery functionality is PDF Messenger, which ensures secure email communication regardless of the recipient's infrastructure.

    "Enterprises are looking for encryption solutions to protect data throughout the enterprise. Our customers are excited about the new management, policy, and reporting capabilities in this PGP Encryption Platform release. We've performed an exhaustive evaluation of the new release and know it's ready to cost-effectively secure enterprise data," stated Marc Suttle, deployment engineer at ANI Direct.

    Proven by enterprises worldwide in pre-release testing, Secure Delivery functionality protects communications without requiring additional installed software. Recipients simply continue to use the software they already have installed-a mail client, a Web browser, or a standard PDF reader-to securely receive, read, and reply to email messages. Corporate policies are automatically and uniformly applied to outgoing messages to help ensure compliance.

    "I'm impressed with the latest release of the PGP Encryption Platform, especially PGP Whole Disk Encryption. The upgrade was seamless, and the software provides great central reporting-important to our enterprise data protection strategy," says Alan Mitchell, IBM senior technical staff member, chief information officer Security & Privacy, with IBM Corporation. "The additional management controls, such as the ability to lock down certain features, allow us to phase our deployment in managed stages so users can get acquainted with their new capabilities and the potential for help desk calls is reduced."  

    PGP product licenses are based on the encryption applications customers select and the management tools they use. Customer options range from a single seat of a single encryption application to multiple seats of a single application with central management server or to a mix-and-match combination of encryption applications all managed by the same server. English versions of all products are available immediately worldwide from PGP resellers and the PGP website.

    The PGP SDK allows developers to integrate comprehensive and mature PGP security technologies into their software. The PGP SDK 3.0 includes a wide range of field-tested and standards-based encryption, digital signature, and encoding algorithms as well as a variety of secure network protocol implementations. The PGP SDK offers developers the same core crypto that is at the heart of other PGP products.

Additionally, this PGP Encryption Platform update:
    -  Increases the number of strong authentication options available for PGP customers from vendors such as Aladdin, Gemalto, and RSA Security
    -  Enables organizations to accelerate deployment of endpoint encryption with PGP Whole Disk Encryption, PGP NetShare, and PGP Desktop Email
    -  Adds support via PGP Command Line for encrypting and digitally signing OpenPGP- and S/MIME-formatted email messages for additional flexibility in processing business transactions
    -  Facilitates closer monitoring of deployments through new logging and reporting capabilities available with PGP Universal Server
    -  Allows administrators to enforce location-based data protection via PGP NetShare, extending an organization's encryption policy beyond endpoints to network file shares