To protect sensitive information, leading healthcare, financial, government and insurance organizations have turned to E-mail Encryption services to help them meet mandatory regulatory requirements and protect customer privacy in all their email communications.

When organizations use LightEdge’s Email Encryption Service they are instantly connected to the world’s largest email encryption directory sourced by our partner ZixCorp®. Once connected, users send and receive secure email transparently, without having to exchange encryption keys. The encryption service provides automated key management for all its customers including companies in a variety of industries such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, and government.

With full content scanning of the message body and attachments, The LightEdge E-mail Encryption service can encrypt, route, block or brand outbound email based on corporate policies. As an email gateway, it transparently ensures compliance for secure email communication without requiring special training or procedures for employees.

Encrypt and Send to Anyone
LightEdge’s Email Encryption Service delivers encrypted messages to anyone through flexible delivery options. Encrypted email is automatically delivered in the manner that works best for the end user. No matter what the email encryption capabilities of the recipient, LightEdge will encrypt and deliver email to them.
Encryption capable desktop and gateway clients using a variety of standards such as S/MIME, OpenPGP and TLS. Secure Portal (Pull) and Direct Deliver (Push) options for users without encryption/decryption capabilities.

Compliance Solutions
HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, state data security laws and guidance from FFIEC agencies make it clear that protecting sensitive information is no longer optional. Securing your
customer’s private information not only protects your organization from fines, lawsuits, and negative publicity, it also improves customer trust. LightEdge’s Email Encryption Service provides automatic detection and encryption of email containing personal health information (PHI) and non-public personal information. These proven policy tools can be customized to fit the needs of your organization’s email policies.

Optional Outlook Plug-in
For Microsoft Outlook users, LightEdge provides a special plug-in so you can send and receive encrypted emails without ever leaving Outlook. The plug-in integrates the functionality directly into Outlook’s toolbar. Buttons in the Outlook toolbar can initiate the encryption or decryption process on the platform. Corporate policies can be used to force encryption of information that is deemed sensitive even if the user did not click the button to encrypt the message.

Automated key management
Our E-mail Encryption service automates the most complicated and costly aspect of email encryption – key management. All key management is handled through the ZixDirectory™, the world’s largest public key repository. ZixDirectory hosts tens of millions of members, providing LightEdge E-mail Encryption customers instant and transparent email encryption with customers and partners. The ZixDirectory also safeguards against expired keys and certificates by providing centralized distribution among all members.