email2 is offered both on-demand (SaaS) and host it yourself behind your firewall (Sekf-Host). While we can host your Private Email Network (PEN) with the SaaS model, we do not replace any of the basic e-mail infrastructure you currently have in place. Once sent or retrieved, email2 messages are stored behind your firewall as any other e-mail message. Your company retains total and singular control over all of its own data.

When you first enable your Private Email Network, we ask you to enter a Master Key (encryption seedkey) that is used as part of the AES encryption algorithm used to encrypt all your data for storage purposes, available with the SaaS and Self-Host models.

email2 messages are transferred securely across the wire using HTTPS and are server-side encrypted as soon as they reach your PEN. They are stored encrypted for the entire life cycle of your account and only accessible to people that you have sent these messages access to.

The email2 PEN acts as a transit gateway where all email2 messages are stored and exchanged, but NOT as your final email data store such as Microsoft Exchange or your local PST file.

//Edited November 2009