Making Email Encryption Effortless: Proofpoint Customers Domino's and Merit Resources on Encrypting Email

As sort of a companion piece to his "Effortless Email Encryption" comparison of six popular email encryption solutions (see my previous blog post), writer David Strom has a case study piece over at Baseline that collects actual customer feedback and advice on deploying encryption technology for email. You can read the full article here:

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Security/Make-Email-Encryption-Effortless-752104/

Proofpoint users Domino's (who use Proofpoint for detecting confidential information in conjunction with encryption technology from Voltage) and Merit Resources (who use the new Proofpoint Encryption module in their Proofpoint deployment) are quoted in the piece.

Jeff Caracci, vice president of IT and facilities management at Merit Resources is quoted on Proofpoint Encryption's ease-of-use:

“A recipient gets an e-mail with an embedded Web link that they click on to read the message,” he explains. “There are no key management headaches, and if someone forgets their password to decrypt the message, they can automatically change it on their next login attempt, as long as they remember their password reset question.”

Merit uses the module that automatically encrypts messages containing sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers or employee data. Because we are essentially a remote human resources office for our clients, we send and receive a lot of confidential information via e-mail, and that always needs to be protected,” Caracci says.