2014 Digital Yearbook of Homeland Security Awards

GSN 2014 Digital Yearbook of Homeland Security Awards Recipients
Vendors of IT Security Products and Solutions
Encryptics –
2014 Winner
Awards Category:
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Best Email Security and Integrity Solution
Name of Nominated Product, Service,
or Program:
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Encryptics for Email
Reason this entry deserves to win:
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Encryptics’ flagship product, Encryptics for Email,
showcases this data protection company’s commitment
to true end-to-end data protection. This product
utilizes a hybrid security model unlike any other on the
market today. By eliminating the flaws inherent in existing
models, Encryptics offers the most innovative and
effective solution for the email security space. Most data
protection solutions utilize one of two standard security
models: trusted server or peer-to-peer. In a trusted
server model, encryption and authentication take place
at a centralized location (a server, gateway, or router).
This model makes it easy to manage authentication
and control who has access to data once it’s encrypted.
Unfortunately, data is not encrypted until it leaves the
device it was created on and travels to an external appliance
where the encryption will occur. Furthermore,
if the encrypted data and the keys to unlock that data
are stored in the same location, this single point within
the transmission constitutes a serious security risk. The
peer-to-peer model attempts to counter these drawbacks
by decentralizing the process. Because encryption
occurs at the user device level, this model addresses the
security gap between the user’s device and an external
appliance. However, in this model, authentication and
key exchange are also handled at the user device level
and are difficult to manage. Unfortunately, this model
does not eliminate the potential for a single point of
failure: if the encryption keys travel alongside the encrypted
data at any time, there is always risk of interception
and exposure. Rather than choosing between these
existing security models, Encryptics resolved to blend
the best of both models in a patented, Trusted Peer-to-
28