Doug McLean - Blogmeister

I audited a class at the local college recently. In the final 5 minutes of the final class, the instructor asserted that, “…social media will kill email.” As one of the very early adopters of email and responsible for bringing a number of email technologies to market, I dismissed his claim as the ranting of a tired lecturer who allowed his mouth to get a beat or two ahead of his brain. In retrospect, however, I’ve concluded he may have had a point.

I have to admit I didn’t see his point until I read a headline recently indicating that 92% of global email traffic is now spam. The fact that most email is junk isn’t news as the percent of measured spam has been hovering around 90% for quite some time. The fact that spam has dominated the email landscape for so long is helping to drive some interesting user behaviors, however.  We’re starting to see...

I'm pleased to announce that, as of today, we are starting a new blog entitled "Ask the Expert." The goal of this thread is to give customers, partners, and others a forum to discuss encryption technology,  solutions, and issues from a somewhat different perspective than we normally do on our current websites. While we will certainly discuss PGP products, this isn't meant to be a replacement for PGP's Customer Support portal which is designed to answer detailed product usage and implementation issues.

Instead we'll discuss questions like:

• When would should you use PGP Whole Disk Encryption vs. File/Folder Encryption?
• What exactly is a hash function and why is the industry working so hard to develop new ones?
• How to PGP Portable and PGP Zip differ functionally and from a security perspective?

We'll also take up non-product related issues...

Doris Yang - Product Manager

If you would like to extend your beta evaluation past the initial 30-day period, you can request a new beta license by resubmitting your beta request here. 

Upon successful submission, you will receive an email with a link containing your new license number.  You must enter the new license key in PGP Desktop for it to take effect.

PGP Corporation is pleased to announce our support for Microsoft Windows 7.   For those who want to read the official word, check us out in the Windows 7 Compatibility Center.

While news of cybercrime may garner most of the headlines, research from the Ponemon Institue and DatalossDB tells us that lost laptops are the number one cause of data breaches worldwide.  And right behind system failures at number three are USB and portable storage devices - making protection of endpoints the number one concern for security professionals.

To help organizations control their risk, PGP Corporation offers a complete set of products to protect your endpoints.  Whether netbooks, notebooks or desktops...