Email Using Their Existing Email Application
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec. 13 -North Rock Communications and Echoworx today announced, North Rock will offer an important new email security service that enables businesses and consumers to simply and easily protect the privacy of their email communications. This easy-to-use service gives businesses an accessible solution to ensure the privacy of the confidential information they send by email across the Internet.
North Rock Secure Mail will provide desk-top to desk-top encryption. The subscriber simply downloads a small plug-in and a Secure button appears on their email client. To encrypt an email, the user simply clicks the "secure" button and the email and its attachments are encrypted, and can only be decrypted by the intended recipient. You do not have to be a subscriber to North Rock Secure Mail to receive and unlock a Secure Mail message.
"Our customers include a large sector of the financial services community and we believe Secure Mail will be an essential component of the way they conduct business across the Internet," said Vicki Coelho, Managing Director at North Rock. "Ensuring the privacy of email communications is critical for our customers, and we are very pleased to be at the forefront of bringing this new email security service to market."
"Echoworx is giving the mainstream market the ability to encrypt their email," said Michael Ginsberg, CEO of Echoworx. "This easy-to-use, cost effective service for businesses and consumers ensures the privacy of their electronic communications. Email encryption will become a required communication tool for all email users, since it is now the primary touch point for all businesses."
About Echoworx
Echoworx is a provider of security solutions for enhancing privacy and trust in electronic communications. Echoworx Secure Mail(TM) software is designed for enterprises and for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who want to offer a branded encrypted email service to the mass market. Echoworx Secure Mail is based on industry standard PKI and S/MIME technologies for strong encryption and digital signatures, and it is built on the Echoworx Security Services Platform. Visit http://www.echoworx.com.
About North Rock
North Rock Communications Ltd is a Bermudian Telecommunications Provider offering Wireless Broadband, ADSL, Dialup Internet Service, Local and Long Distance calling, Dedicated Internet Access, Web Hosting, Co-location Facilities, Domain Name Registration, Consulting, Internet Roaming, and Internet Filtering to corporate and residential customers. North Rock focuses on providing innovative products with outstanding service and quality. Visit http://www.northrock.bm.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Che Barker
North Rock Communications Ltd.
Tel. 441-540-2700
Fax. 441-540-2701
che@northrock.bm
Stefanie Nastou
Echoworx Corporation
416-226-8610
pr@echoworx.com
