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Symantec’s encryption products, now including PGP and Symantec Endpoint Encryption, enable organisations to deliver comprehensive data protection with proven standards-based technology. The easy-to-deploy solutions provide centralised policy management, accurate compliance-based reporting and true universal management of Symantec’s encryption products.
PGP™ Command Line from Symantec™
PGP™ Command Line from Symantec™ enables organisations to integrate encryption into batch processes, data transfer, and backup processes to ensure the security of corporate data at rest or in transit. Whether it is credit card information, financial transactions, payroll, medical records, or other confidential information, PGP Command Line makes it straightforward to secure data from end to end during automated operations and backup procedures. As a PGP Platform-enabled application, PGP Command Line leverages keys managed by PGP Universal™ Server from Symantec™, expediting deployment and systems management. PGP Command Line can be used in combination with other PGP encryption solutions to provide multiple layers of security.
What's New:
- Certificate validity - allow PGP Command Line to take an input X.509 certificate, and ask the server (with supplied or cached credentials) whether the certificate is valid.
- Authentication - allow the user to have multiple cached authentication credentials (USP cookies).
- Additional extension – add support for Subject Alternative Name extension.
Key Features:
- File encryption security – Provides encryption for files prior to storage or transfer among internal systems, suppliers, and customers.
- Email workflow integration – Provides encrypted output in email-ready formats for integration in scripts that do file distribution or notification via email.
- Faster transmissions – Compresses data to save transfer time and bandwidth.
- Secure file deletion – Securely and permanently eliminates all traces of sensitive files from a disk. Secure delete the source file after encryption to ensure removal of sensitive data from the file system.
- Secure data exchange with any recipient – Provides multiple options for protecting data to ensure secure transmissions, including support for self-extracting archive for recipients without encryption software.
- Easy alternative to network-layer encryption – Encrypts the data itself, ensuring that data stays safe even on open network segments.
- Key administration – Enables organisations to easily administer encryption keys from a unified management console.
- Authenticity and audit trails – Digitally sign data for a long-term audit trail and to enable the recipient to verify the authenticity of the sender and content.
- Long-term corporate data access – Recovery methods provides emergency access to encrypted data.
- Support for open standards – Exchange encrypted information with organisations that may be using other encryption products.
Upgrade Information:
Free of Charge: Existing PGP Command Line customers with a current maintenance contract may upgrade to the current version free of charge.
Upgrade: Version Upgrade SKUs can be used by customers to reinstate lapsed maintenance.
Crossgrade: Crossgrade SKUs are available to move from one-key 2 CPUs, to two-keys 2 CPUs.
Marketing Description:
PGP™ Command Line from Symantec™ enables organisations to automate protection of sensitive consumer and business information, securing it for local storage or transfer over the Internet. In addition to support for OpenPGP and X.509 key formats, encryption, digital signing, compression, and secure wiping capabilities, PGP Command Line from Symantec also provides patented Additional Decryption Key (ADK) technology, enabling corporate access to encrypted data. Organisations with large deployments of PGP Command Line may choose to deploy PGP™ Key Management Server from Symantec™ for automated key provisioning, centralised key management, and reduced administrative effort.
PGP™ Desktop Corporate from Symantec™
PGP™ Desktop Corporate from Symantec™ provides flexible, multi-layered encryption by bundling PGP™ Whole Disk Encryption from Symantec™ to secure the files stored on local hard drives, PGP™ Desktop Email from Symantec™ to secure confidential data in email and PGP™ NetShare from Symantec™ to securely share files with selected colleagues. This powerful combination ensures that only authorised users can access sensitive data, helping companies address partner and regulatory requirements for information partitioning and security.
What’s new:
- What’s new in PGP™ Whole Disk Encryption
- AES-NI support for Mac OS X and Linux OS
- Support for Windows 7 Starter Edition
- Support for Windows 7 SP1
- Support for new versions of Linux
- Support for Single Sign On for certificate-based users in BootGuard
What’s new with PGP™ NetShare
- Group Keys
- SEV Integration – NetShare now tracks requests originating from kernel modules
- PGP NetShare Tab for NetShare in folder properties windows for Win 64-bit
What’s new with PGP™ Desktop Email
- Outlook 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit) support
Key features:
- PGP™ Desktop Corporate from Symantec™ is a bundle which includes the following products:
- PGP Whole Disk Encryption
- PGP NetShare
- PGP Desktop Email
Upgrade information:
Free of Charge: Existing PGP Desktop Corporate customers with a current maintenance contract may upgrade free of charge.
Upgrade: Version Upgrade SKUs can be used by customers to reinstate lapsed maintenance.
Marketing Description:
PGP™ Desktop Corporate from Symantec™ provides flexible, multi-layered encryption by bundling PGP™ Whole Disk Encryption from Symantec™ to secure the files stored on local hard drives, PGP™ Desktop Email from Symantec™ to secure confidential data in email and PGP™ NetShare from Symantec™ to securely share files with selected colleagues. Together, these products secure data at rest (such as in storage) and in motion (over email networks and file shares). This powerful combination ensures that only authorised users can access sensitive data, helping companies address partner and regulatory requirements for information partitioning and security.
PGP™ NetShare from Symantec™
PGP™ NetShare from Symantec™ enables teams to securely share documents on file servers by automatically and transparently encrypting the files for fine-grained group access. This approach ensures that only authorised users can read or modify files, fulfilling partner and regulatory requirements for information partitioning, separation of duties, and security.
As a PGP™ Platform-enabled application, PGP™ NetShare from Symantec™ can be used with PGP Universal™ Server from Symantec™ to manage policies for data protection, users, keys, and configurations. This expedites deployment and policy enforcement. PGP NetShare can also be used in combination with other PGP encryption applications to provide multiple layers of security.
What’s New:
- NetShare now supports group keys integrated with Active Directory security groups
- Symantec Endpoint Virtualisation integration – NetShare now tracks requests originating from kernel modules
- PGP NetShare tab for NetShare in folder properties windows for 64-bit editions of Windows
Key Features:
- Secure, trusted collaboration – Standards-based encryption on file servers to ensure secure collaboration between users.
- Seamless integration – Utilises existing Directory Services infrastructure for policy integration without changes to existing business processes.
- Application policy encryption – Specify applications that require encryption of files for automatic policy enforcement.
- Adherence to regulatory controls – Ensure sensitive data is protected from data breaches, loss, and theft.
Upgrade Information:
Free of Charge: Existing PGP NetShare customers with a current maintenance contract may upgrade free of charge.
Upgrade: Version Upgrade SKUs can be used by customers to reinstate lapsed maintenance.
Marketing Description:
PGP™ NetShare from Symantec™ enables collaborating teams to securely share sensitive files and folders on network shares. The encryption/decryption is performed transparently by the PGP NetShare client. Files remain protected during transport, backup, or copy operations and require no additional management or responsibilities for storage and network administrators. Centralised management available with PGP Universal™ Server from Symantec™ enables rapid deployment and administrative access to encrypted data. Part of the PGP™ Encryption Platform, the solution provides seamless integration with other PGP Encryption Platform-enabled applications, allowing administrators to easily and incrementally implement email, messaging, disk, and removable media security.
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