PGP Security

Pretty good Privacy (PGP) is leveraging technology of its parent company Network Associates to aid its push into the enterprise arena with the release of PGP Desktop Security 7.
	PGP has adapted its software to include additional protection such as personal furewalls and intrusion detection, in an effort to meet the increasing challenge of always-on broadband. 'An always-on connection is susceptible to a higher rate of attack - on average, four or five attacks per day.  Users don't generally have the latest security patches, and are therefore vulnerable,' says Michael Jones, senior product manager at PGP.
	Others say the company has merely benefted from the technology that's available to it through Network Associates. 'I think what it [PGP]is trying to do is leverage as much of the [Network Associates] technology that it has, without diluting its own sales,' says Abner Germanow, research manager for Internet security at IDC.
	Germanow says the benefits are clear to see in the latest product. 'PGP 7 has a lot more than what PGP used to encompass.  The personal firewall is extremely hot, especially as corporations look at laptops in the field,' he says.
	PGP 7 allows network administrators to centrally manage the firewall capabilities of remote users to prevent unauthorised access to corporate networks and it provides access to coporate networks and it provedes six configurable levels of packer filtering, so personal firewalls can be adjusted according to the security status of the user.
	PGP 7 is in the beta form at present and will be released in July.