The new package, version 5.0, has a number of new features, said Steve Godfrey, secure solutions business manager for HP Services in the UK. ‘It incorporates Information Rights Manager from Microsoft, enabling you to determine that a certain email can’t be forwarded, copied and so on, plus we’re adding in HP technologies such as virus throttling, email calming, and IBE.’
Virus throttling is where the software monitors the number of emails sent and throttles them back if it notices a sudden surge. Email calming controls the size and number of emails that can be sent.
IBE, meanwhile, seeks to overcome the restriction within PKI whereby the sender must know the recipient’s public key in order for the person receiving the message to be able to decrypt it using their private key, said Godfrey.
IBE uses the recipient’s email address as the basis from which it generates a key, then it encrypts and sends the message, with the recipient being sent the URL of a trusted third party where, once he or she is authenticated, the TTP will decrypt the message for them, he said.
The full package, called HP ProtectTools Email Release Manager, costs GBP 60 per seat ($110), falling with volume discounts to GBP 30 ($55) per seat for deployments over 25,000 users.
