Email Signing and Encryption
Email Signing and Encryption solution allows you to digitally sign and encrypt your email and attachments, protecting individuals and organizations from email-based attacks and data breaches
The Challenge
Email hacking that results in theft of intellectual and capital property as well as damage to the business and brand is very common nowadays. Phishing tactics have become more sophisticated and effective at tricking their targets. So it’s more critical than ever for organizations to adopt digitally signed and encrypted email technology to secure their email communications and protect their integrity.
The Solution
Entrust Secure Email Certificates (S/MIME) provide organizations with a capability to dramatically reduce the risk of company data loss originating from email. Entrust’s identity and end-to-end encryption capabilities supported for internal and external emails, together with the deployment automation and lifecycle management capabilities, enable organizations to improve their compliance and security posture relative to other solutions.
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Email Signing and Encryption
Entrust S/MIME certificates secure email communication through end-to-end encryption and identify the sender via a digital signature.
What is an S/MIME certificate?
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (S/MIME) certificates secure email communication through end-to-end encryption and identify the sender via a digital signature.
They are a standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. With S/MIME certificates, recipients of an email can identify where the email came from, so employees can verify that the email came from a CEO, CFO, or other member within the organization and can trust the “From” address of the email.
What dangers can organizations experience from email attacks?
There are two types of email hacking activities:
• Phishing: When generic messages are delivered to a wider pool of potential victims
• Spear phishing or business email compromise (BEC) attacks: Specific and planned targeted attacks to an individual or a group; these attacks aim to:
– Extract sensitive information
– Install malware onto the network
– Wire money to accounts that belong to the attackers
How big of a threat are business email compromise (BEC) attacks?
BEC attacks have been exploding in recent years, moving across geographies and business sectors. According to the most recent FBI Internet Crime Reports (ICRs), organizations in the U.S. lost $6.4 billion to BEC attacks from 2014 to 2020 – with $1.8 billion of that in 2020 alone
How can S/MIME certificates help reduce an enterprise’s attack vector?
S/MIME certificates can help reduce an enterprise’s attack vector by providing:
- Identity: Entrust S/MIME certificates provide identity by enabling employees to digitally sign emails so recipients know that the email is coming from an employee of the organization.
Emails that are digitally signed by an employee can be trusted to come from the stated source and provide assurance that the content hasn’t been modified during transit.
- End-to-end encryption: Entrust enables employees to encrypt emails, making the theft of encrypted emails without access to the private keys useless to an attacker. Entrust’s end to end encryption is inherently a stronger form of security compared to gateway encryption.
Secure Email Certificates for Enterprise confirm the name of the organization and name of the individual and email address of the individual enabling employee emails to be distinguished from SPAM or phishing attacks.
Email Signing and Encryption
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With 25+ years of digital identity expertise and 50+ years of security innovation, Entrust is a digital security leader. Entrust offers automated S/MIME certificate deployment that can scale to meet the latest industry requirements and multiple use cases