FrontBridge Launches First Enterprise Managed Service for Encrypted Desktop-to-Desktop Messaging
Publication date: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
Message Management Leader Selects Voltage Security to deliver an easy-to-use solution for financial, legal and healthcare companies facing a myriad of compliance requirements
August 31, 2004 - FrontBridge Technologies, the enterprise market leader for message management and email security, today launched the first managed service for desktop-to-desktop encrypted email. FrontBridge selected Voltage Security Inc., a leading provider of secure business communication solutions, as its strategic technology partner. FrontBridge Secure Email has been successfully tested by more than fifteen organisations, representing the healthcare, financial, and legal verticals where compliance regulations, from the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), are driving secure email adoption in increasingly large volumes.
As a completely managed service, FrontBridge is able to implement an encrypted email solution rapidly, without the typical implementation challenges or up front capital investment required from an organisation. Implementation is reduced from weeks or months to a matter of hours, ensuring that companies with immediate compliance needs can quickly and affordably start using an email encryption technology for securing confidential client communications.
Rosemary Hoge, IT security administrator, at Bristol Hospital, a full service healthcare institution serving the greater Bristol, Conn. area has conducted early tests of FrontBridge Secure Email. "Regulations such as HIPAA demand that patient records be handled with the utmost confidentiality," said Hoge. "FrontBridge Secure Email ensures patient record privacy. It's an easy-to-use system that can be deployed rapidly into a hospital environment."
The FrontBridge Secure Email service is the first managed service to leverage Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) technology from Voltage Security. IBE is a breakthrough in cryptography that removes the hurdles associated with the complicated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Instead of relying on traditional PKI, FrontBridge Secure Email enables users to simply use the recipient's email address to securely send and receive business communications.
Michael D. Osterman, president of Osterman Research (Black Diamond, Wash.), a leading messaging industry market analysis firm, commented, "FrontBridge Secure Email offers several distinct advantages for financial and healthcare companies grappling with complicated compliance requirements. The managed service is easy to implement, requiring no complicated infrastructure build out, and more importantly, it's easy to use, ensuring that the service can be counted upon to protect critical information assets. FrontBridge is on the move, providing a broad portfolio of services to tackle multiple aspects of message management."
Managed Service Enables Rapid Implementation of Email Encryption
FrontBridge will market and sell its secure email service as part of its suite of message management tools that include managed services for spam filtering, virus protection, message archiving, content policy enforcement and disaster recovery. The service allows enterprises bound by government regulations and corporate messaging policies to send confidential material via their standard desktop business email program.
"Encrypted desktop-to-desktop communication has not taken off because existing methods have proven cumbersome to use and very difficult to deploy and manage," said Steve Jillings, president and CEO of FrontBridge Technologies. "Yet, government and corporate regulations require that privileged communications are encrypted. We're taking secure email to the mainstream by making the encryption and decryption of messages as simple as clicking a button in a standard email client without complicated passwords or PKI. After surveying the market, we selected Voltage as the most appropriate solution for our requirements."
"We are seeing increasing demand for managed service offerings in the market," said Sathvik Krishnamurthy, president and CEO of Voltage. "Our partnership with FrontBridge enables enterprises to add a secure messaging service in a completely managed environment. Network administrators don't have to manage and maintain an additional system and get the added benefit of automatic network redundancy and failover with FrontBridge Secure Email."
FrontBridge Secure Email bolsters existing encryption techniques that ensure messages are not tampered with during transit, including network-wide support for Transport Layer Security (TLS). FrontBridge Secure Email is available immediately and will leverage the benefits of the company's renowned SMART Network, a globally distributed, fully load-balanced data centre network that is Secure, Managed, Active, Resilient and Trusted. The SMART Network is the only managed service to deliver 100 per cent historical uptime and one of the few managed service networks to guarantee 99.999 per cent reliability.
Resellers Excited About Opportunities for FrontBridge Secure Email
Michael Breamer, a national account manager for Anitian Enterprise Security, a leading enterprise technology integrator, commented on the benefits FrontBridge Secure Email provides for his enterprise customers.
"Anitian specialises in deploying enterprise-level technologies for some of the nation's largest corporations, and for these audiences, keeping pace with the latest regulatory requirements is a foremost concern," said Breamer. "FrontBridge Secure Email finally makes desktop-to-desktop encryption accessible for even non-technical audiences. We anticipate strong demand for this service and look forward to offering its benefits to our customers."
The FrontBridge Secure Email Service
FrontBridge Secure Email is delivered as a completely managed service. It removes the hurdles associated with maintaining an in-house server and enables the following unique benefits:
* Secure anytime, anywhere communication. Users can encrypt and decrypt communication and information, online and offline, and anywhere in the world with transparent roaming and full support of mobile messaging devices such as Blackberry.
* Self-provisioning. No pre-enrolment of recipients is needed to send secure ad hoc communication
* Ease-of-use. Seamless integration with leading client applications enables users to transparently send and receive secure communication without changing their day-to-day behaviour
* Ease-of-administration. FrontBridge Secure Email can be quickly implemented and centrally administered. No complicated archive solutions are required for keys or messages to ensure business continuity
* Low total cost of ownership (TCO). FrontBridge Secure Email eliminates complex infrastructure, thus reducing overall costs
Pricing and Availability
The FrontBridge Secure Email service is available for subscription now. Special promotional pricing of 10 percent off retail and no set up fees is currently being offered to early subscribers. For more information, please contact , call , or visit www.frontbridge.com/secureemail
About Voltage Security
Voltage Security, Inc. is a leading provider of solutions for trusted channels of communication based on a revolutionary breakthrough called Identity-Based Encryption or IBE. Voltage Security's mission is to use identity to bring confidence to business communication. Voltage solutions secure business communication by making anytime, anywhere communication easy to use and painless to deploy. The Voltage SecurePolicy Suite(tm), Voltage SecureMail(tm) and Voltage SecureFile(tm), are commercially available today, with solutions for instant messaging and web services forthcoming. Voltage serves leading enterprise customers and regulated industry segments such as financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and government. For more information on Voltage Security and to learn more about IBE, please visit http://www.voltage.com/.
About FrontBridge Technologies
FrontBridge Technologies Inc. is the market leader for Enterprise message management and security services. Its comprehensive portfolio of managed services include spam filtering, virus protection, policy enforcement, disaster recovery, secure email and message archiving. FrontBridge managed services are delivered across the company's SMART network - a proven, reliable, on-demand, globally-distributed network of secure data centers. FrontBridge was the first company to guarantee 99.999-percent service level agreements (SLA) and the only company with a track record of 100-percent uptime.
Now in its fifth year of operation, FrontBridge, headquartered in Marina del Rey, Calif., provides message management and security for more than 2,100 enterprises globally. Visit us on the Web at www.FrontBridge.com or call or in the UK,
TrueProtect and SMART Network are trademarks of FrontBridge Technologies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
For More Information, contact:
Craig Brophy / Stephen Waddington
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+44 (0) 20 7494 6570
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