Symantec Policy Based Encryption Advanced
Symantec Policy Based Encryption (PBE) Advanced, powered by Echoworx, is a boundarybased
encrypted email service that will encrypt sensitive emails before they leave the
organization.
Features
- Multiple types of encryption available
- Custom Branding on encrypted emails, notification emails, inside web portal
- Policy-based custom encryption and policy-based alternate branding
- Multiple authentication options for recipients
- Encrypted Reply option for external recipients
- Integration with 3rd Party LDAP directories for certificate retrieval
- Outlook Add-In offer easy Encrypt Button to enterprise senders
- Message Recall (by the sender) for messages in web portal
- eStatement Encryption mode where only attachments are encrypted
Benefits
- Cloud-Based solution (no hardware requirements)
- 24x7 management of hosted services
- No impact/changes to internal email archive/backup or eDiscovery
- Multiple encryption methods ensure the best experience for the recipient
- Data Leakage Protection by automatically encrypting sensitive content
- Scanning email subject, email body, recipients, attachment names, attachment content
- Policies to catch any confidential data in the email
- Recipients can self-manage passwords/recover password without Administrator involvement
- Eliminate fax and paper mailings when email becomes secure option
Pricing
£27.46 a user a year
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
5 6 6 8 4 2 5 8 9 2 2 0 9 2 3
Contact
INTEGRITY360 LIMITED
Davide Poli
Telephone: 02083721000
Email: bidreviewboard@integrity360.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes
- What software services is the service an extension to
- Symantec Email Security.cloud Safeguard
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- None
- System requirements
- Customer must also have Symantec Email Security.cloud Safeguard
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Dependant on severity
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- The Web Chat is accessible through the Support tab in the portal, under contact us, then click the appropriate link will open the web chat.
- Web chat accessibility testing
- None
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- The product will come with standard support included as part of the services and includes online support via our portal. In addition, if purchased directly from Symantec a remote cloud specialist will be assigned to provide an account management style support. If purchased through a 3rd party the remote cloud specialist is not provided and this would need to be provided by the third party. For large (+10,000 users) and complex estates there is the possibility to purchase Business Critical Services.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
-
The service does not require any user interface. There are some simple configuration
options which are explained at the time of implementation - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
-
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- There is no data to extract.
- End-of-contract process
- If the contract is not renewed the services are switched off.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
-
- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
-
All detection is carried out in a cloud environment so there is no difference in service
regardless of the endpoint being used. - Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Description of service interface
- For administrators there is the ClientNet Portal, here the administrator can configure the service. For Users they can access the quarantine portal if the option is selected by the administrator
- Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- Users cannot access the client net console, only the quarantine
- Accessibility testing
- None
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- The service can be customised through logo and text support, making the service appear native to the customer
Scaling
- Independence of resources
-
Echoworx scales the service to ensure all incoming email volume is processed without
delay. When required, additional instances of the encryption engine and/or the secure web
portal can be deployed without any service interruption. With respect to external recipients
accessing the secure web portal, Echoworx uses a multi-version concurrency control
database to allow simultaneous access to data. File or database record deadlocks are
avoided by ensuring row locks are obtained in a consistent order
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
-
All email flows through Symantec, and the policies for encryption are in Symantec Data Protection.
The service metrics are obtained from Symantec reports and Admin Console - Reporting types
-
- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Symantec
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
-
- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
-
Email in encrypted form at rest (this is different than encryption of all physical
media - Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
-
Some encryption reports (such as the Policy Report) generated in the web-based
Administrative Consoles can be saved as a CSV file - Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Available on request
- Approach to resilience
-
All services are redundant. Multiple instances of both the encryption engine and the secure
web portal are load-balanced and running in a single datacenter. Furthermore, the services are
replicated in a secondary datacentre for DR purposes. - Outage reporting
- The portal provides public updates and there are email and text alerts for any severe outages.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
-
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
-
Authenticated access is required to access the administration consoles. Echoworx will
provision accounts (using provided customer email address(s)) and the user will choose a
secure password when they create their account. Access granted is role based such that
Echoworx Operations will see options and configuration that is not available to customer
administrators. There is also a special role with reduced access for credential management
(PGP keys, SMIME keys) and Reporting. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- No audit information available
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Lloyds Register
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 23 May 2016
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- TBA
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
-
- SOC 2
- WebTrust certified
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
-
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Other
- Other security governance standards
-
Echoworx is SOC2 and WebTrust certified. The datacentre however, is
ISO 27001 - Information security policies and processes
-
The service follows the security policies and standards that are outlined in
SOC2 and WebTrust. These can be provided upon request.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
-
Change is managed at all levels through the design, software development, quality
assurance, deployment, and operational management of the services. Some examples: All
source code is versioned and tagged in a Version Control System. Change requests are
reviewed weekly by Product Management, Sales Engineering, Operations, and
Development. Change requests are assigned to the current or future release based on
severity and value to the solution. All production system changes, including config changes,
are documented and tracked in the ticketing system and reviewed by management . Before
any version of the software is deployed changes are approved by Symantec Product
Management. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
-
Echoworx has a series of IDS, and IPS systems in place in their environment. Additionally,
routine vulnerability and penetration testing is performed on its services. Echoworx is
registered to receive updates via 3rd party mailing lists of almost all 3rd party tools used in
the environment. The committed response time for deploying a new security patch from a 3rd
party is 1-2 days for high severity / critical security patches. If the security patch is minor, or
does not affect the Echoworx solution, it may be released after it has been tested during the
next planned major release of software. - Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
-
For 3rd party compromises, the answer from Vulnerability management (slide 29) can be
repeated here. On the topic of application monitoring, the Operations team has system and
log file monitoring in place that will alert the team of any errors. Service degrading errors are
addressed immediately when possible with infrastructure changes, otherwise the issue is
escalated to the Product group for assessment and resolution via a software patch. - Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
-
Symantec’s internal Security Incident Response Plan documents repeatable, industry standard procedures for handling actual cyber threats when they arise. It also provides the necessary engagement and information-sharing processes to allow prompt coordination among all relevant stakeholders, and describes the reporting, communication, containment, investigation, and recovery mechanisms that exist to support a comprehensive end-to-end process flow from threat detection through remediation. The development and implementation of this forward-looking plan supports Symantec’s ultimate mission to its
customers, partners, shareholders, and employees as a trusted leader in information security risk management.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
-
Fighting climate change
To help us manage our environmental impacts, we employ robust environmental management practices and have implemented a global Environment and Sustainability Policy, which requires that we:
Ensure our products and operations comply with applicable environmental legislation and other related compliance obligations
Operate and continually improve an environmental management system that strives to align with our business practices and set objectives that enhance environmental performance
Conduct our operations in a manner that supports recycling, conservation of resources, prevention of pollution and protection of the environment
Responsibly manage the use of hazardous substances in our operations and products
Inform our suppliers, partners, and contractors of our environmental expectations and encourage them to adopt sound environmental management practices
Promote environmental stewardship and sustainability within our organization
Publicly communicate our environmental priorities and performance annually
Pricing
- Price
- £27.46 a user a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
-
Yes, a free trial version is available. This service is an add-on to, and requires,
Symantec's Email Security.Cloud Safeguard
Service documents
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