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Email encryption

Email encryption

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Email encryption

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- [Instructor] When we use email encryption with the Cisco ESA, the appliance is going to encrypt a message and store the key on a local server or a hosted key service. When the recipient opens an encrypted message, the recipient would need to authenticate their identity with the key service, and then the decrypted message would be displayed. Let's take a look at how we can enable message encryption on the Cisco ESA. If we look under the Security Services tab from our main Admin window, just over halfway down, we're going to see Cisco IronPort Email Encryption. If we click that, we're going to see that this is currently disabled, so we do need to globally enable that with the Enable button. And once we do that, we can see our Global Settings here. Let's click Edit Settings just to take a look under there. You can see that the Cisco-recommended maximum message size to encrypt is 10 megabytes. The appliance itself does have the capability of encrypting messages up to 25 megabytes, but…

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