Message integrity ensures that the message hasn't been altered or tampered with while in transit. The solution provides digital signatures, authentication and message integrity checks to ensure that the e-mail is legitimate. The solution also supports biometric devices. It is important that IT can access old e-mail messages should an employee leave the company and managers require information. Entrust provides automatic back-up of decryption keys and transparent access to key histories.
Many organizations operate in a heterogeneous environment.
It is important that a solution work with a variety of vendors so that employees and customers can communicate using different e-mail applications. Entrust works with Microsoft, Lotus, Qualcomm, Novell, Netscape and many others. Ease of management and use is key to an IT department which has limited resources. If the solution is difficult to manage, it will not get deployed. IT needs the solution to be easy to administer so that they can focus on other priorities.