EHS Encryption

EHS Encryption

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Overview

Add to Exchange Hosted Filtering with EHS Encryption. Exchange Hosted Encryption is a convenient, easy-to-use e-mail encryption service that helps to securely deliver your confidential business communications. Encrypted email may be an internal requirement of your organization, or "encouragement" by your customer.

Regulations
Government and industry regulations, such as those posed by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, offer even more compelling reasons for corporations to increase the security of messages to help meet compliance requirements.

What It Does
The service enables users to send and receive encrypted e-mail directly from their desktops as easily as regular e-mail. Using a simple process, users can encrypt and deliver any business communication without complex hardware and software to purchase, configure, and maintain. Exchange Hosted Encryption is deployed over the Internet, which helps minimize up-front capital investment, free up IT resources to focus on value-producing initiatives, and mitigate messaging risks before they reach the corporate network.
 
Solution Overview

Transparent Encryption and E-Mail Delivery
When a user sends an e-mail message, it travels to the Microsoft global network through a Transport Layer Security (TLS)-encrypted tunnel, and is automatically encrypted at the gateway according to rules created and managed within the Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering module.

When a message is encrypted, a private key for the recipient is created and stored in a security-enhanced environment on the Microsoft network. The private key is made available to the message recipient when the recipient decrypts the message. The recipient does not have to pre-enroll to receive and decrypt the message. In fact, the recipient may have never received a prior e-mail from the sender.

The Microsoft encryption process is entirely transparent to the sender, who does not need to do anything other than write and send the message as usual.

Simple Authentication and Security-Enhanced, Web-based Decryption
Upon receiving an encrypted message, the recipient authenticates their identity and sets a password to securely open encrypted messages from the Hosted Encryption service. Once this password is created, the recipient can use the same password to quickly authenticate and view protected email. Password-based authentication provides an easy and secure method to authenticate and verify a recipient's identity.

After completing the authentication and password setup process, the recipient decrypts and views the message using the Voltage Zero Download Messenger. The Zero Download Messenger is a clientless, browser-based method that enables a recipient to have confidence decrypting and reading a message and its attachments and then to reply with confidence. Furthermore, the encrypted message remains in the recipient's e-mail inbox for access at any time.

Benefits
  • Sends encrypted e-mail messages to anyone, regardless of the recipient's system configuration
  • Decrypts and read e-mail with confidence, without installing client software
  • Provides strong, automated encryption with a cost-effective infrastructure
  • Consistently and automatically helps protect sensitive information and data leaving your e-mail gateway
  • Helps manage compliance with security and privacy requirements such as HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley
  • Eliminates need for key and certificate management
  • Generates keys on the fly
  • Minimizes up-front capital investment
  • Integrates with existing e-mail infrastructure
Helps free up administrator time to focus on other projects

What Next
Are you looking for more information than what you found on our website? Our Microsoft EHS Consultants would be happy to answer questions and arrange demonstrations. Simply fill out the request form below or call 310-337-4521 between 8am and 5pm PST, Monday through Friday.

EHS Encryption is available on Microsoft volume licensing (Open, Select, Enterprise) or on shorter terms (month to month and annual contracts). We'd be happy to provide you with a no-obligation quote.
 

 

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