Pgpо Desktop Professional
PGP® Desktop Professional
Comprehensive email and ful disk encryption for desktop
and laptop computers
Part of the PGP® Encryption Platform
Benefits
Secure email, files, and data in active use
• Easy, automatic operation – Protects
Email and mobile computers have quickly emerged as industry-standard
sensitive email without changing the user
tools for increasing communication and user productivity. Unfortunately,
experience or email application.
unprotected email and mobile devices pose a critical risk to an enterprise’s
• Enforced security policies – Automatically
most sensitive data: customer information, financial data, trade secrets,
enforce email and data protection with
and other proprietary information. Exposure of this data can result in financial
central y managed policies.
loss, legal ramifications, and brand damage.
• Accelerated deployment – Achieves
PGP Desktop Professional provides a comprehensive set of encryption
end-to-end email encryption integrating with
applications to protect sensitive data in email and instant messages and on
the existing infrastructure.
disk or removable media. PGP Desktop Professional secures confidential
• Reduced operation costs – Result from
data, protecting sensitive business information and helping to meet partner
centrally automating email encryption policies.
and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy.
Disk, Volume, and File Protection
PGP Desktop Professional includes PGP® Whole Disk Encryption, which
locks down the entire contents of a laptop, desktop, external drive, or USB
flash drive, including boot sectors, system, and swap files.
PGP Customer Spotlight
Powerful, End-to-End Email Encryption
PGP® Desktop Email delivers all the encryption functionality necessary for
Continental Corporation, a
protecting an organization’s email communications in a single, easy-to-use
leading automotive supplier
and easy-to-manage solution. It enables organizations to automatically secure
headquartered in Germany,
email communications from the sender’s email client to the recipient’s
—and at all points in between—using centrally defined, policy-based encryption.
uses PGP® Desktop Email
PGP Encryption Platform–Enabled
to protect communications
PGP Desktop Professional is a PGP Encryption Platform–enabled application.
with its customers and PGP®
The PGP Encryption Platform provides a strategic enterprise encryption
Whole Disk Encryption to
framework for shared user management, policy, and provisioning, automated
across multiple, integrated encryption applications. As a PGP Encryption
protect sensitive data on
Platform–enabled application, PGP Desktop Professional can be used with
6,000 laptops.
PGP Universal™ Server to manage existing policies, users, keys, and config-
urations, expediting deployment and policy enforcement. PGP Desktop
Professional can also be used in combination with other PGP encryption
applications to provide multiple layers of security.
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PGP Desktop Professional
Easy, Automatic Operation
Once PGP Desktop Professional is deployed, its operation is
completely transparent— users simply continue to work as
usual. The software automatically encrypts and decrypts data
on-the-fly, ensuring data protection without requiring changes
in users’ behavior.
• Automatic messaging security – Automatically encrypts,
decrypts, digitally signs, and verifies email messages
according to individual or centrally managed policies.
PGP Encryption
• Multiple ways to protect data – Protect sensitive data in
Unencrypted
Mail Server
transport using PGP® Zip and PGP® Self-Decrypting Archive
Comprehensive email and full disk encryption.
and in storage using PGP® Virtual Disk.
Reduced Operation Costs
Enforced Security Policies
With PGP Desktop Professional, no special training is required
Security policy configured in PGP Universal Server ensures
for end users. This approach accelerates deployment time, reduces
that email, local disks, and removable media are encrypted,
training costs, and avoids any increase in help desk calls.
defending data across the network and transported on easily
lost devices.
• Client controls – Enable the organization to better meet
PGP Universal Server Management
security requirements by locking down which features are
enabled, visible to the user, and enforced.
PGP Desktop Professional can be centrally deployed and managed
• Status reporting – Enables inspection and
when used with PGP Universal Server (optional), enabling organi-
reporting on the state of disk encryption in the organization to
zations to easily set and enforce data security polices throughout
satisfy regulatory requirements and help prevent a data breach.
the enterprise.
• Strong authentication options – Perform pre-boot authenti-
• Centrally enforced security policy – Automatically enforces
cation using smart cards such as the RSA SID800.
protection of sensitive data and email using security policies
driven by an existing corporate directory.
• Recovery passphrase – Automatically generates and stores a
Accelerated Deployment
unique one-time-use recovery passphrase to ensure authorized
access to encrypted data.
Used together, PGP Desktop Professional and PGP Universal
• Extensible protection – Allows management of PGP® NetShare
Server’s unified management console establish, enforce, and
or any other PGP Encryption Platform–enabled application.
update security policy in real time. This combination reduces
the time and effort required to deploy full disk and end-to-end
email encryption.
Technical Specifications
For complete technical specifications and operating system
supported functionality, please visit www.pgp.com.
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