Echoworx Announces Secure Data Center in Europe to Support Global Availability of Policy-Based Encryption Gateway

For businesses that want to leverage Software As A Service (SaaS) for data loss prevention.

TORONTO, Dec. 4 -- Echoworx Corporation (www.echoworx.com) a leading provider of security software products for digital communications, today announced the addition of a secure data center in Europe. This data center will be live in the United Kingdom January 2009, and will support the global availability of the Echoworx Policy-based Encryption (PBE) Gateway. The product has also been enhanced to support all major European languages, Korean, Japanese and Chinese, and has been integrated with third party content scanning and archiving solutions, where encryption is simply added on as a security feature.

The average business loss for a large organization that suffers a data breach is $4.1 million*. Echoworx PBE Gateway helps businesses prevent data loss and leakage by enforcing encryption. The encryption is transparent to end users, allowing businesses to comply with industry data regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GBLA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the UK Data Protection Act. In the United States, Nevada and Massachusetts have put laws into effect to enforce businesses to encrypt customer information that is either sent or stored electronically.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has made encryption a mission critical business application. Companies need to implement a DLP strategy to protect the privacy of data such as credit card information, intellectual property, legal agreements, financials, patient records, and customer and employee information.

"Businesses are looking for encryption solutions that are simple to implement with no impact to their existing infrastructure. The Echoworx reseller channel allows businesses to easily add encryption as a layer of protection to their existing content scanning products," said Michael Ginsberg, President and CEO of Echoworx. "PBE Gateway can be deployed with no impact to workflow. Once the policies are set, email is automatically encrypted based on privacy rules set by the company. The low SaaS per user fee, allows businesses to cost effectively prevent security risks associated with regulatory violations and data loss."

  *Cost of a Data Breach, Ponemon Institute



  About Echoworx PBE Gateway

The Echoworx PBE Gateway can reside on-site or within a hosted data center, and interoperates with third party scanning or filtering solutions. Every company should be monitoring outbound email and acting on email containing content that violates their privacy and DLP policies. PBE Gateway provides the ability to associate rules with the content of outbound email to help protect businesses from liabilities associated with privacy and data security regulations. The encryption is completely transparent to the end user. The complexity of digital certificates and encryption keys are all managed in the background with zero impact to workflow.

For more information about Echoworx PBE Gateway and its global reseller channel contact sales at echoworx.com or 1.888.697.3246.

About Echoworx

Echoworx is a provider of security solutions for enhancing privacy and trust in digital communications. Echoworx privacy applications leverage the power of Echoworx Encryption Services (EES) platform, which is hosted at Secure Data Centers. All data is encrypted using industry trusted standard PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and S/MIME technologies for strong encryption and digital signatures, relying on standard X.509 certificates. Echoworx data privacy applications include: Secure Mail, Policy-based Encryption Gateway, Secure DOX, Encrypted Document Presentment, and Encrypted Message eXchange. Echoworx products are currently offered by leading communication providers that include: AT&T, BT, LogicaCMG, Telus, Tiscali, and Verizon. Visit www.echoworx.com

  FOR MORE INFORMATION:


  Stefanie Nastou
  Echoworx Corporation
  416-226-8610
  pr at echoworx.com