Data Encryption for Gmail - Overview
In today's digital universe, cloud-based productivity suites are ruling the roost when it comes to internal office communications tools. Google Workspace is one such trusted suite which is largely used by organisations. One of the significant solutions provided by Google Workspace is Gmail; a tool predominantly used to exchange emails. The popularity of Gmail can be realised from the fact that it holds around 30% global email share.
With cloud migration gaining traction, organisations benefit enormously by promoting immaculate information sharing. However, this migration brings in a security and compliance issues too. Email has emerged as one of the principal target, attacked by cyber criminals; so much so that Verizon, in one of its 2024 data breach investigation reports, named Email as the most sought after cloud tool used for cyber attack. Additionally, many organisations handle and store sensitive personal information of employees and clients. The usage or storage of such data is regulated by strict government policies like HIPPA, PCI DSS, GDPR and so on.
Organisations that fail to comply with these regulations end-up paying heavy financial fines. Also, the organization's reputation goes for a toss in such scenarios, often resulting in total chaos. Security regulations are evolving, leaving organisations to quickly adapt and come to terms with the new regulations.
The need of the hour is an efficacious email protection solution that can safeguard the sensitive data shared through emails.
Introducing Nightfall: Industry’s first AI-native, context-aware data encryption solution for emails
Nightfall provides you with a disruptive, AI-powered email encryption. Nightfall's email encryption solution, unlike its legacy counterparts that rely on clumsy third-party portals, integrates directly into your existing email workflows.
Some of the salient features of Nightfall Email encryption solution are as follows.
Industry's First AI-Native, Context-Aware Encryption
The Nightfall email encryption solution is AI driven and can automatically detect and secure sensitive data from emails and attachments. This solution also boasts the context-aware feature. The context-aware features empowers Nightfall to apply robust military-grade encryption, that is tailored to specific kind of data being shared. With Nightfall's AI-powered encryption solution, you can effortlessly secure your sensitive data sent over emails. Additionally, Nightfall also provides you the flexibility to automate encryption for different types of sensitive data or provide controls to end-users to enable or disable encryption while composing the email - all this from without missing out on the Gmail native experience.
Seamless Integration, Frictionless Recipient Experience
One of the impeccable features of the Nightfall encryption solution is that it facilitates a smooth transition so much so that the end-users hardly notice anything new. You need not create new accounts, navigate to some third-party portals, or spend time training your employees. All you need to do is just install the Nightfall Chromium extension and enable the encryption toggle switch while composing the emails in Gmail. Recipients just need to authenticate themselves with a one time code and access the secure mail.
Effortless compliance, iron-clad control
Nightfall email encryption solution relieves you from the efforts put in to maintain compliance regulations like HIPPA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and so on. This AI-powered solution ensures that you remain compliant, giving you the power to revoke emails, set expiration dates, and disable email forwarding. Additionally, the persistent email protection feature ensures that attachments are only viewed within the secure Nightfall reader. Nightfall uses the AES with Galois/Counter Mode (AES-GCM) 256-bit encryption to encrypt email body and attachments. Data is encrypted using a dynamic, randomly generated cipher key.
Unparalleled Visibility and Automation
The Nightfall email encryption email provides you with exceptional levels of visibility. The Nightfall centralised admin console displays key data like encrypted emails read by recipients, attachments download, sender actions like disable forwarding and revocation of access. With this data, you can quickly check if there was any data breach through emails. You can use notification channels like Slack, email, SIEM to notify users if sensitive data is found. Additionally, you can use end-user remediation or human firewall feature to allow end-users to take action on sensitive data.
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Nightfall's AI-native, context-aware data protection solution for Gmail is considered a security best practice, enabling organisations to leverage Gmail's productivity features while ensuring end-to-end encryption of messages and attachments, wherever they're shared. Nightfall also provides best-in-class AI-driven data loss prevention (DLP) apart from context-aware AI-driven email solution.
Users just need to enable a toggle switch to empower encryption on their emails sent from gmail. Apart from email encryption users can also choose to apply features like persistent protection, disable forwarding, and access revoke on their emails.
To learn more about how to use the Nightfall encryption solution, you can refer to the following documents.
Installing Nightfall DLP on Individual Devices
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