Free Email & Disk Encryption

For all MOD employees there is now free full use of PGP Desktop Professional 9.9 through Armynet.

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Email and mobile computers have quickly emerged as industry-standard tools for increasing communication and user productivity. Unfortunately, unprotected email and mobile devices pose a critical risk to your most sensitive data: personal information, financial data, trade secrets, and other proprietary information including material relating to your military employment. Exposure of this data can result in financial loss, legal ramifications, and cause damage to the Army’s reputation and security.

PGP Desktop Professional licenses have been procured by HQ LF for your personal use and provides a comprehensive set of encryption applications to protect sensitive data in email and instant messages and on disk or removable media. PGP Desktop Professional secures confidential data, protecting sensitive information and helping you to meet your responsibilities for information security and privacy. If USB sticks, laptops, disks and removable media are lost but properly encrypted with PGP it is likely the loss will not become a matter for disciplinary action on information security grounds.

Disk, Volume, and File Protection PGP Desktop Professional includes PGP Whole Disk Encryption, which locks down the entire contents of a laptop, desktop, external drive, or USB flash drive, including boot sectors, system, and swap files. It can also provide a ‘virtual’ encrypted disk within an otherwise unencrypted hard drive. Powerful, End-to-End Email Encryption PGP Desktop Email delivers all the encryption functionality necessary for protecting your POP email communications in a single, easy-to-use and easy-to-manage solution.

Here is the PGP Homepage http://www.pgp.com/

Disk, Volume, and File Protection

PGP Desktop Professional includes PGP Whole Disk Encryption, which locks down the entire contents of a laptop, desktop, external drive, or USB flash drive, including boot sectors, system, and swap files.

Powerful, End-to-End Email Encryption

PGP Desktop Email delivers all the encryption functionality necessary for protecting an organization’s email communications in a single, easy-to-use and easy-to-manage solution. It enables organizations to automatically secure email communications from the sender’s email client to the recipient’s —and at all points in between—using centrally defined, policy-based encryption.


There are 32 Bit and 64 Bit versions available from here https://www.armynet.mod.uk/club/pages/menu/

The Professional Product key is on the same page to activate the program. This key is to be used solely by personnel employed within the MoD.