In “Hushmail and Other Ways to Protect E-mail“, David Strom reviews Hushmail Business, PGP Universal Gateway Email, and Voltage SecureMail Connected Gateway as three low-cost, easy-to-use business-friendly email encryption packages. From the article:

You probably know by now that any e-mail that isn’t encrypted traverses the Internet in clear text that can easily be viewed with little skill and just some patience. So what are you doing to protect your company’s sensitive e-mail?

The right way is to encrypt e-mail messages in their entire path from sender to receiver. You also need to digitally sign them, to ensure that no one else has tampered with them in transit.

Hush Communications has been around a long time in the encryption world. Its basic business account, which is the least expensive of the three solutions reviewed here, starts at $24 a year per user. (There is also a free personal version that has most of the features found in the business product, with the exception of having your own domain names to send and receive the encrypted e-mails.)

My recommendation is to start off with either the free Hushmail product or the Business version and see if hosted e-mail is right for your needs.

Read the full review in BusinessWeek, or learn more about Hushmail Business. If you have any questions about Hushmail Business, feel free to give us a call or email our sales team.