PGP recently held a webcast on key management, where there were several questions that we didn’t have enough time to answer during the broadcast. In this blog entry, you’ll find the answers to those questions.

• Replay in English
• Replay in German

We didn’t have time to answer all the questions during the webcast, but I wanted to circle back and provide you with a detailed answer.

Q: Do you need both PGP Universal Server and PGP Key Management Server?  Or does PGP Key Management Server replace PGP Universal Server?

A: PGP Key Management Server is a new product based on some of the components of PGP Universal Server.  PGP Universal Server is for the management and administration of keys used with PGP applications. A company would use PGP Key Management...

Brendon J. Wilson – Director of Marketing, PGP TrustCenter

Last week, we held a webcast on Simplifying SSL Certificate Management.  Here’s a link to the replay [registration required]. As this was the first web cast for the new PGP TrustCenter Division of PGP Corporation, there were a wide variety of enthusiastic questions...so many, in fact, that we couldn't answer them all in the time available. I took a few minutes to summarize the questions and post the answers below.

Q: You mentioned that PGP TrustCenter’s data center is accredited by a number of security standards – which ones? Do you have SAS-70?

A: PGP TrustCenter’s data center is accredited according to ETSI (a European equivalent to WebTrust), Safe BIO-...

Brendon J. Wilson – Director of Marketing, PGP TrustCenter Division

Last year, online shoppers spent over $150B in online transactions in the US alone – it wasn’t long ago that the lack of transaction security would have made these revenues inconceivable. Today, the security provided by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol not only enables organizations to collect payments on the web, but also to securely communicate sensitive business information to partners, and to deliver internal network resources to remote workers.

As the global recession continues, SSL provides organizations a way to thrive despite the financial downturn by enabling businesses to expand market reach, to streamline costs, to tap far-flung resources, and to explore new revenue opportunities. Tapping these opportunities requires SSL certificates from...

Andrew Klein - Senior Product Marketing Manager

According to the folks at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, since 2005 there have been over a thousand data breaches leading to over 320 million compromised records in the United States alone.  These records contained personal, financial and corporate information – none of which was encrypted.

The term “record” might imply a database record, but a majority of the breached records were not stored in a database, but instead were stored in “files” such as spreadsheets, documents and log files.  These files were stored on laptops, desktops, CDs and USB drives, which were stolen, lost or compromised. Some were files transferred in-the-clear over unprotected networks.  There were also breaches which occurred when personal financial information was posted on a web site, Social Security Account Numbers were...