Email Encryption

Encrypting email messages is a way to protect the content from being read by other entities than the intended recipients. Due to the potentially sensitive information included in generated reports, FireMon has the added security of encrypting the email messages that generated reports send.

There are two parts to SIP email encryption:

• Digital Signing Certificate—is responsible for ensuring that report emails have not been tampered with after they are sent.
• Encryption Certificate Lookup Server—is responsible for encrypting an emailed report to prevent it from being viewed by anyone other than the recipient.

Email encryption is only available for scheduled reports (Administration), not on-demand reports (Security Manager).

Permission Requirements

A user will need to be a member of a user group with the following minimum permissions granted:

• Administration: Reports

• Application: Administration