Mitigate Risk, Increase Security Through Email Encryption

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We know the importance of a strong data security policy for your business. We can ensure your business enforces these procedures without adversely impacting business operations.

Why Encrypt Email?

All businesses, and their professional advisors, agents and clients should take steps to protect the privacy of their email. You need to be able to trust email communications and reduce the risk of damage to your brand.


The need for Email Encryption is driven by industry legislation such as HIPAA, SOX, and GLBA, legislation that was enacted to protect the privacy and reliability of business and personal information.


With Email Encryption service, all outbound email is inspected to ensure compliance with your defined email privacy policies. This gateway approach determines the best method for delivering emails and only encrypts sensitive data. Email Encryption provides full content scanning of the subject line, content and attachments and the gateway will encrypt, block, or brand outbound ...
... emails based on your corporate security policies.

Delivery of Encrypted Emails:

Whether it's communicating consumer credit information, patient data or delivering monthly statements, Email Encryption is an ideal solution for securing email communications. Secure encrypted emails can be delivered to a recipient who does not have Email Encryption through a secure branded portal (pull method) or directly (push method) to the recipient.

When an encrypted email is delivered via the portal, the recipient receives a notification email that links and “pulls” them to the secure messaging portal. After signing in, the user views the message and any attachments over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection.

Sending Encrypted Emails:

When sending the encrypted email directly or “pushed” to recipients who do not have Email Encryption capabilities, the secure email arrives as an HTML attachment within an email. The user simply clicks on the attachment and enters a password. The message is then decrypted in your local Internet browser. Messages are stored encrypted, and the user can open and read them anytime. Let us show you how Email Encryption can help your business mitigate risk, prevent data loss and increase your data security.

Key Management


In Email Encryption, a key specifies how plaintext is transformed into cipher text and vice versa during decryption. Key management is a very complicated and costly component of encryption. Our Email Encryption service utilizes the world's largest public key repository, the Zix Directory to provide you with instant and transparent Email Encryption with customers and partners.

Features of Email Encryption:

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Manage policy for regulatory compliance such as GLBA.

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Content inspection and auto or manual encryption for HIPAA.

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Retrieve and distribute encryption keys automatically.

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Scan full content within subject line, message and attachments.

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Branded two-way portal supports your customer.

Benefits of Email Encryption:

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Send secure email to anyone.

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Built-in content scanning.

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Deploy quickly in less than a day.

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Provide end user training materials.

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Integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure and systems and any email messaging environment.