Secure Content Exchange

Encryption, the process of converting data into an encrypted form, has become headline news in recent months/years. Encryption by definition means that data is only intelligible to someone who knows how to ‘un-encrypt' it in order to obtain the original message. 

News headlines are buzzing with stories of personal/private data loss due to stolen or lost laptops, desktops and data storage devices. The most worrying factor is that in almost every case of lost data, the owner(s) is often unsure exactly what data was being stored on it, and more worryingly the device was not encrypted - the most famous example of this was in 2007, when the government lost 2 unencrypted CDs holding thousands of UK child benefit details. 

Encryption is therefore highly important and offers the unique ability to secure data with such confidence that it can be "unlocked" and shared across collaborative environments.   

Two main types of encryption:

1. File Encryption - to protect content on local drives or copied/pasted to portable devices or file shares
2. E-mail encryption - to protect private, sensitive and valuable information communicated by email. Email encryption software should be an integral part of a greater data security solution in which security policies can be uniformly defined and enforced in the context of the business processes they enable.

Benefits

• Reduced risk, increased safety 
  Less risk of data loss or compromise, while enabling the sharing of sensitive data globally across collaborative and mobile environments
• ROI
  Return on investment is high - encryption can be inexpensive compared with the high cost of data loss or associated law suits over private data losses
• Reputation
  Encryption allows firms/institutions to be confident that the data they store, whether their own or of third parties, is secure and they will not run the risk of being humiliated by a security breach
• Flexibility
  With all storage devices encrypted effectively, employees are free to take laptops ad USBs home to work on, with peace of mind that the data stored on them is secure 

Features - General

• Central policy management
• Uniform and automated policy enforcement
• Risk-appropriate responses to policy violations
• Global visibility to location and usage of sensitive data
• Policy based automated encryption
• Encryption protection for data copied to removable storage and server storage
• Flexible encryption enforcement
• Automated key management; simplifies system management
• Actionable data discovery and classification
• Protection for data stored on local drives, USBs and other media if lost/stolen
• Visibility, auditing and reporting in order to be aware what data may be compromised if a system or device is lost/stolen 

Features - Email Encryption

• Automated encryption enforcement; means employees don't have to be relied upon to remember to apply encryption
• Flexible encryption enforcement; can apply email encryption only when it's needed
• Automated key management; simplifies system management
• Support for particular email applications, such as Microsoft Outlook/Exchange; protects content and attachments
• Centralised visibility, auditing and reporting enabling security managers to know what encrypted information has moved via emails and as an attachment; improves visibility.

Why ITC

Through our partnership with Verdasys and access to their professional variety of software tools, ITC can offer you computer data security solutions that have been proven to solve strategic, real-world data security problems for global organisations. Encryption, both of files and emails, enables the sharing of sensitive data for greater collaboration between employees, contractors, outsourcers and partners.