Happy 21st Birthday, Gmail! Google’s Present to Enterprise Gmail Users: End-to-End Encryption

The new feature is more accessible than S/MIME because it eliminates the need for certificate management.

All enterprise users of Gmail can now easily apply end-to-end encryption to their emails. Prior to today, this was a luxury reserved for big businesses with significant IT resources, but Google recognises that email attacks are on the rise across the board.

How users and IT can use E2EE in Gmail

Emails sent with Gmail’s end-to-end encryption are extremely secure because only the sender has control over the encryption key, which is stored outside of Google’s infrastructure. Users can click the padlock by the Bcc button and press Turn On under the Additional Encryption’ option to apply it.

The security feature can be applied to emails sent to anyone, regardless of whether they are within the user’s organisation or even use Gmail. If the recipient does use Gmail ...