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Encryption: PGP
o matter how much things component of security. That means 12 months. PGP has addressed
N change, they stay the
same. As I have pointed
out, there have been massive
some sort of universal key manage-
ment system that supports third-
party keys is needed. This is not
AT A GLANCE that with new products that focus
on more platforms. In addition to
multiple platforms, we now see
changes in security drivers over a new problem, but certainly one multiple environments, such as
the past 12 months. The changes that has moved up in the stack. SaaS, cloud computing and others.
have generated a new set of chal- Another new challenge that has The last new “big deal” is per-
lenges, but, even though our been on the horizon, at least at sonal encryption. This is not just
encryption innovator has done a the state level, is breach report- email and documents, but now we
first-rate job of addressing them ing. More than 40 states now have wikis and social networking
over the past year, the new issues have breach reporting laws and Flagship product: PGP Encryption sites. This implies a way around
are generating a sort of déjà vu there will be a federal law in the Platform the key management and decryp-
picture of the encryption market. foreseeable future. That implies Vendor: PGP Corporation; tion problems.
Key management still is a chal- some sort of safe harbor for email www.pgp.com Those are the challenges. The
lenge, for example, not because using encryption. An extension of Cost: Encryption: starts at $119; good news is that when you are the
PGP has not addressed it, but that is email and document reten- Email: starts at $149; Universal world’s largest purveyor of encryp-
because the ballgame is chang- tion. Here, as in most encryption Server: starts at $169; and tion software, you have a lot of
ing rapidly. Now there is a strong applications, the challenge is not NetShare: starts at $149 customers all telling you what they
movement toward universality in in encrypting information, it’s Innovation: Inventive solutions to want and what their needs are. All
encryption. Clearly not everyone decrypting it. data protection challenges you have to do is listen and that –
uses the same encryption product, Applying encryption to multiple Greatest strength: Close customer listening and responding – is one
but everyone now seems to have platforms is another area that has contact/willingness to listen of the key strengths of this peren-
learned that encryption is a critical become important over the past nial innovator.
Data leakage/extrusion prevention: Trend Micro
don’t recall the first time I