PGP Corporation

Symantec Embraces Encryption with New Acquisitions

nextupresearch1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:29:53 +0000

Symantec announced two new acquisitions–PGP Corporation for approximately $300 million, and GuardianEdge Technologies for around $70 million. Purchasing these two established encryption providers will enable Symantec to take a more comprehensive approach to protecting data.

PGP Corporation moves into digital certification

nextupresearch1 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:00:25 +0000

PGP Corporation, has diversified into the world of digital certification, thanks to the acquisition of TC TrustCenter, the digital certification authority, for an undisclosed sum.

PGP Announces New Data Protection Solutions for Mac and Linux Enterprise Users

nextupresearch1 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:06:05 +0000

PGP announced availability of the latest version of PGP(R) Desktop. This new release extends PGP’s leadership position in enterprise data protection and enables client convenience and compliance across all of the major desktop operating systems environments — Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux and Red Hat Linux. In addition to allowing disk encryption across mixed environments, PGP(R) Desktop for Mac now also supports Boot Camp, so users can have complete protection for machines running dual Mac OS X and Windows environments

PGP® Whole Disk Encryption Approved for Use Within Ministry of Defence

nextupresearch1 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:19:48 +0000

PGP announced that PGP® Whole Disk Encryption has been formally approved by the Defence INFOSEC Product Co-operation Group (DIPCOG) as suitable for use within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and British Armed Forces. This certification comes just months after PGP Corporation secured CESG Assisted Products Service (CAPS) baseline approval for use by the UK Government and signifies PGP Corporation’s ongoing commitment to providing high-grade encryption software. The electronic data held by the MOD, British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force plays an increasingly critical role in the nation’s defences and military intelligence operations. Now DIPCOG approved, PGP® Whole Disk Encryption provides these organisations with military class protection, ensuring that the critical information they hold on laptops and desktops remains secure even in the event of the device being lost or stolen.

nuBridges and PGP Corporation Partner to Protect Transported Digital Information

nextupresearch1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:44:33 +0000

nuBridges, announced that it has partnered with PGP Corporation, to provide nuBridges Exchange™ customers with PGP® encryption technology. Utilizing the PGP® Software Development Kit (SDK) from PGP Corporation, nuBridges has now integrated the award winning, trusted PGP® encryption technology into the nuBridges Exchange managed file transfer (MFT) and B2B gateway software solution. nuBridges integrated the cryptographic functionality from PGP Corporation into the nuBridges Exchange software as part of its mission to make it safer and easier for enterprises to share and protect sensitive information. Now, users can invoke PGP encryption functionality from a server or client machine before sending files via their transport protocol of choice. nuBridges chose the PGP® encryption technology because of its long-standing industry reputation; its wide range of field-tested and standards-based encryption, digital signature and encoding algorithms; and its support for a variety of secure network protocol implementations.

PGP Showcases Expanded Integration with Intel Corporation

nextupresearch1 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:32:08 +0000

PGP and Intel, have developed a strategic partnership over the past two years focused on creating a fast, transparent, high performance Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) solution to enable large enterprise and SMB customers to protect their sensitive data from theft or accidental loss. Intel’s partnership with PGP Corporation addresses three growing trends that cost businesses and consumers billions of dollars every year – identity theft, data breaches and computer theft. Approximately 10% of all notebooks annually are lost or stolen so it is imperative that notebooks today incorporate two critical technology components to address these issues proactively and reactively – data protection and hardware-based anti-theft capabilities.

ETS Takes Proactive Approach to Data Protection with the PGP(R) Encryption Platform

nextupresearch1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:55:03 +0000

PGP, announced that Educational Testing Service (ETS) (www.ets.org), the world’s largest educational research and assessment organization, has selected the PGP(R) Encryption Platform as the core of its enterprise data protection strategy.

PGP Launches New Mobile Data Protection and Security Solutions

nextupresearch1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:57:52 +0000

PGP, announced two new mobile security encryption solutions, PGP(R) Portable and PGP(R) Mobile 9.10, designed to address the critical challenges facing organizations that share portable data and secure email on smartphones. An extension of the award-winning PGP(R) Encryption Platform, PGP(R) Portable is a new data protection solution that provides self-contained encryption on any removable storage device or optical media, including USB sticks, CDs and DVDs. In addition to data encryption, PGP(R) Mobile 9.10 now includes encryption for email and email attachments (both stored and in transit) on Windows(R) Mobile smartphones, extending PGP Corporation’s multi-platform support. Furthermore, PGP Corporation is also rolling out new enhanced support programs to meet the changing needs of its customers.

PGP and immixGroup® Join Forces to Provide Data Protection Security to U.S. Government Customers

nextupresearch1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:02:18 +0000

PGP, announced a strategic distribution agreement and marketing relationship with immixGroup, to channel PGP Corporation’s data protection solutions into the public sector. Initially targeting the federal market, this relationship enables PGP Corporation to significantly expand its federal channel strategy and market presence.

PGP and Fidelis Security Systems to Offer Comprehensive Data Protection Solution Combining DLP and Enterprise Encryption

nextupresearch1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:59:19 +0000

PGP, announced a strategic technology relationship to address the growing market demand for a comprehensive data protection solution combining network DLP and enterprise data encryption technologies.