PGP Expands Channel Strategy with New PGP MSPN

PGP (News - Alert) Corporation has significantly expanded its channel strategy with the launch of the PGP Managed Service Provider Network (MSPN). Through a new worldwide network of managed service providers and existing channel partners, the company aims to broaden access of its encryption solutions to mid-market and small businesses. The network will initially offer the award winning PGP Whole Disk Encryption as a Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) subscription offering.

 

While exchanging the data, businesses of all sizes want to ensure the security and encryption of the data at all times. They also want to ensure that they comply with industry and regulatory compliance mandates. But this is not always possible as small and mid-market companies don’t always have the budget, IT resources or infrastructure in place to support their data with enterprise-class security strategies and solutions.

 

Phillip Dunkelberger, president and CEO of PGP Corporation, refers to market data that shows customers, such as small businesses, branch offices and departmental groups, are becoming more comfortable consuming security technology as a service offering as it greatly simplifies set-up and ongoing infrastructure maintenance.

 

By using PGP Whole Disk Encryption in a SaaS environment, end-user customers and channel partners of the PGP Managed Service Provider Network can now more easily get started and quickly reduce IT expenditures.

 

Providing comprehensive, automatic full disk encryption, PGP Whole Disk Encryption enables quick and cost-effective protection for data on PCs, laptops, and removable media. Because the encrypted data is transparently safeguarded from unauthorized access, it provides strong security for intellectual property, customer and partner data, and corporate brand equity, specifically when mobile devices are lost or stolen.

 

The PGP Managed Service Provider Network SaaS delivery model is especially beneficial for mid-market and small customers as they can now access the same commercial-grade, enterprise-class encryption security as large organizations without spending on upfront infrastructure and hardware typically required for implementing encryption technology solutions.

 

PGP’s official point out that new and existing PGP channel partners and managed service providers can offer PGP Whole Disk Encryption as a managed service with a "pay-as-you-go" business model and thus increase revenue streams.

 

ANI Direct and Aurora Enterprises in the United States, and Gradian Systems in the United Kingdom have already joined the PGP Managed Service Provider Network.

 

Charles Kolodgy, research director of Security Products at IDC (News - Alert), emphasized that due to the obscene number of data breaches resulting from lost or stolen laptops, it is absolutely critical that businesses of all sizes and verticals strengthen their data protection capabilities with whole disk encryption.

 

He noted that PGP Corporation’s strategy of offering whole disk encryption as a hosted service through their Managed Service Provider Network provides customers with choice, flexibility and cost savings to fulfill their business needs and protect their key assets.