Egress Software Technologies Ltd is a UK-based software company providing security software for

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secure messaging Secure messaging is a server-based approach to protect sensitive data when sent beyond the corporate borders, and it provides compliance with industry regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA and SOX. Advantages over classical secure e-mail are that confi ...

, Document and Email Classification, and associated technologies to assist secure file sharing and handling.

History

Egress was founded in 2007 by Tony Pepper, Neil Larkins and John Goodyear. In 2011 Egress was awarded the ''Security Innovation of the Year'' at the

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UK IT Industry Awards. The company experienced an influx of customers following the introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in 2018. In June, 2021, Egress acquired Aquilai Ltd. for an undisclosed price.

Products

Egress software is for the secure transfer of emails and documents to non-secure email addresses.

Product certification and Agency approved listings

In October 2013, Egress Switch was certified by CESG against Desktop and Gateway Email Encryption Security Characteristics as part of their Commercial Product Assurance program. ''Egress Protect'' is certified by the UK's NCSC to handle ''Official'' and ''Official Sensitive'' under the UK government security classifications policy. this certification lies with National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and eas extended until 20 December 2019. In May 2014, Egress Switch encryption services became available to procure via the G-Cloud 5 Framework, the UK Government's program committed to the adoption of

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services across the

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. Through the G-Cloud Framework,

organizations are able to procure the following Egress Switch services: Switch Secure Email, Switch Secure File Transfer and Switch Secure Web Form via a number of Egress value added

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. Also in May 2014, Egress Switch Secure

Email Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic ( digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant ...

was listed in the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue, which provides the 28 NATO nations, as well as their civil and

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bodies, with a directory of

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products, protection profiles and packages that are in use or available for

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to meet operational requirements.

References

External links

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