PGP Corporation Opens PGP Encryption Platform With Next-Generation APIs and Tool...

PGP Corporation Opens PGP Encryption Platform With Next-Generation APIs and
Tool Kits
New Capabilities to Broaden PGP Encryption Platform Integration Opportunities

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global
leader in enterprise data protection, today announced the further expansion of
its award-winning PGP(R) Encryption Platform with a new set of functionality
targeted at independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors
(IHVs), and enterprises. The new application programming interfaces (APIs) and
software development toolkits (SDKs) allow developers to quickly and easily
leverage the market-leading cryptographic, user management, key management,
policy, and reporting features of the PGP Encryption Platform into their own
applications. The PGP Encryption Platform's breadth of features, low
implementation cost, high return on investment, and broad deployment at more
than 4,000 enterprise customers worldwide make it an attractive development
target for ISVs and IHVs.
New capabilities include a next generation PGP Encryption Platform
application programming interface (API), the PGP(R) Crypto SDK, and the PGP(R)
Messaging SDK. These new tools offer substantial improvements in ease of use,
programming language support, features, and flexibility, and are the same
tools PGP Corporation uses to create its own current award-winning product
line and future products.
"PGP is already widely deployed so extending the capabilities of the PGP
Encryption Platform to third-party ISVs and enterprise developers will help
PGP customers and the security industry," said Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst with
the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Enterprises are focused on protecting more
data, in more places while reducing costs. Using the PGP Encryption Platform
as a foundation for ISV and internal enterprise-developed application
integration, enterprises can protect the confidentiality and integrity of more
data while minimizing product acquisition, deployment, and administration
costs."
Continuing PGP Corporation's demonstrated commitment to standards, the PGP
Encryption Platform delivers the flexibility to accommodate existing and
emerging key management standards. PGP Corporation's next-generation approach
offers more flexible key types, attributes, and policies; comprehensive user
and group management; and integration with external enterprise directory
systems. The new framework allows the broad capabilities of the PGP Encryption
Platform to be extended to a wide range of corporate applications, third-party
software, and key management protocols.
"Customer response to Lumension Security's strategic partnership with PGP
Corporation has been fantastic," said Rich Hlavka, Senior Vice President of
Business Development at Lumension Security. "We are excited by the added
capabilities in the PGP Encryption Platform, and look forward to leveraging
these powerful next-generation technologies for both encryption and key
management integration." With the added functionality, ISVs and IHVs will
be able to:

-- Address an existing worldwide market of thousands of PGP Universal(TM)
Servers, tens of thousands of PGP customers, and millions of client
seats already deployed;
-- Leverage PGP Universal Server's rich key management functionality for
key retrieval, backup, storage, or restore for an existing enterprise
server;
-- Develop independent or interoperable encryption applications, via
either the FIPS 140-2 validated PGP Crypto SDK, the PGP Messaging SDK
or by leveraging the capabilities of PGP Universal Servers; and
-- Build complementary applications which work side-by-side with PGP
Corporation's applications to add features, increase compliance
visibility, satisfy regulatory requirements, and enhance reporting.

Enterprise IT developers get all the benefits of ISVs and IHVs, and also
can: -- Leverage keys from an existing PGP Universal Server implementation
to
secure other critical corporate data;
-- Add rich encryption functionality to corporate applications without
worrying about key management, storage, administration, or policy
management;
-- Secure corporate applications without needing to implement encryption
in the local application;
-- Add features to existing applications for securing web transactions,
POS terminals, secure data transfer, or other custom processes, while
providing key recovery, lifecycle, and user management with low
overhead; and
-- Gain operational efficiencies, lower costs, and improved management
across their encryption applications.

"The need for encryption is becoming pervasive throughout the enterprise,
and no single vendor can address every scenario," said Steven Schoenfeld, VP
of Products and Strategy at PGP Corporation. "Opening up these APIs gives
third parties access to the same encryption and key management that PGP(R)
products have benefited from for over five years."
PGP Corporation briefings on the new PGP Encryption Platform interfaces
and capabilities will take place during the RSA Conference. To schedule a
meeting, go to http://www.pgp.com/rsa08/ or visit PGP Corporation at Booth 517
from April 7 through 11, 2008.
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software
for enterprise data protection. Based on a unified key management and policy
infrastructure, the PGP(R) Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of
integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP(R) platform-enabled
applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security
requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging,
smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and
backups.
PGP(R) solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises, businesses, and
governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune(R) 100, 75 percent
of the Fortune(R) Global 100, 87 percent of the German DAX index, and 51
percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a
global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP
solutions help protect confidential information, secure customer data, achieve
regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies' brands and
reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com.
Media & analyst contact for PGP Corporation:
For PGP Corporation:
Tom Rice
Merritt Group
+1 703 856 2218
rice@merrittgrp.com

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Corporation