An IT-Friendly Approach to Secure Messaging

An IT-Friendly Approach
to Secure Messaging
White Paper
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Sigaba Technology
Introduction 3 Integration Issues 3
Integrating with the Enterprise 4Preparing for the Future: Federated Identity Management 5
Additional IT-Friendly Bene?ts 5
Password Management 5
Electronic Statement Delivery 5
Summary 6
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INTRODUCTION training, and in many cases are completely transparent This white paper describes how Sigaba's secure email to the user. But when it comes to meeting the needs of solutions minimize the burden on IT organizations IT organizations, these other approaches fall short in a through a combination of easy integration with existing number of important areas.enterprise systems and simple maintenance. Sigaba's INTEGRATION ISSUES"IT-friendly" approach is in sharp contrast with that Every company doing business in the twenty-?rst of other secure email vendors, whose installation and century has at least some investment in both email deployment, and ongoing administration, require a great and security. For enterprise-scale companies, this deal of work from professional services organizations or investment is substantial, and may comprise multiple third-party consultants. systems. Obviously, it's important that a secure email MARKET OVERVIEW system be able to integrate with these legacy systems. The secure email market has matured to the point But there are actually three integration issues that IT where most vendors offer a stable feature set of baseline organizations need to look at when it comes to secure security capabilities. For enterprise-scale deployments, email: integrating the various components of the secure such as are seen in banks and ?nancial institutions, this email system with one another, integrating them with set includes the following: the existing infrastructure, and dealing with integration . end-to-end encryption (gateway-to-gateway or issues that may arise in the future.desktop-to-desktop) SECURE Email SYSTEM INTEGRATION . mutual authentication (gateway-to-gateway or Sigaba's secure email solution is totally integrated. Its person-to-person) primary components are as follows:. anti-virus and anti-spam capabilities . a gateway server that functions as a policy engine . auditability (to determine whether or not a message and content ?lterhas been delivered and whether or not it has been . a key server that stores, manages and presents the read) keys that enable encryption/decryption. control over the message by the sender (including . an authentication server that veri?es the identity of policy-based controls, digital rights management, the sender and the recipientas well as the ability to recall messages that have These components comprise a core solution that lets not yet been read, and to de-authorize recipients of employees send secure email to anyone, with no need a message for special software on the desktop CPU of the senders . message management (archiving, content ?ltering, or the recipients. This basic solution can be extended in work?ow) three ways, all of which are built on top of - and fully . off-line read integrated with - the core components:
While Sigaba is the only company that can offer all of . Sigaba Desktop Plug-Ins extend email security these capabilities in a standards-based solution, other so that individuals within an organization can solutions on the market do provide a viable subset. send secure email messages to one another. This In general, their products are fairly easy for the end- enhances the core solution described above, where user. Like Sigaba's, they require little if any employee encryption occurs at the gateway - the "edge" of
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