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Echoworx Security Cloud

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This is an interesting product. It is interesting both for what it does and what it doesn't do. What it does is manage credentialing throughout the enterprise, virtual or physical. It keeps credentials on the endpoints and encrypts there. It supports just about any platform one can think of. 

What it doesn't do is require the user to access the cloud every time they want to encrypt an email message. The cloud, then, becomes a platform for credential provisioning. Provisioning, especially in a PKI environment such as this, can be the fly in the ointment that makes an encryption product inconvenient to use. We liked this one because it is simple to use, secure and effective.

One of its most useful applications is email. Encrypted email can be problematic. What if your recipient doesn't use the same flavor of encryption that you do, for example? Echoworx encrypts and sends the email using your regular email platform  using a single button. At this point, if you are on the sender's system, you get the message, click and read. If not, you get a link that will give you the credentials you need to read and reply to messages from this sender. You can initiate messages to the sender as well. 

Echoworx has been around for more than eight years and has been best known for its privacy applications. These apps plug into Security Cloud as well, so users of the company's other apps have the same credential management services available as users of the email application.

While this tool does not secure the cloud itself, it uses it for an important aspect of internet-enabled business functions.

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Echoworx Security Cloud
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Name: Echoworx Security Cloud Description: Credential management and encryption in virtual/cloud environments. Price: There is no charge to use the Echoworx Security Cloud SDK, and the cost of the fully managed certificate is $10 per year.

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