When Trust Is the Practice
How one of the world’s leading law firms replaced a legacy encryption appliance with a cloud-native platform — preserving every established PGP and S/MIME workflow its most demanding clients depend on.
[Industry: Legal / Professional Services | Region: DACH / Global | Use Case: PGP & S/MIME Modernization · Secure External Communication · Cloud Migration]
Key Outcomes
- Full feature parity, carried forward intact. Every workflow — outbound S/MIME with automatic key selection, keyword-triggered PGP, inbound decryption, and automated public key harvesting — migrated to the cloud without a single gap. No client felt the change. No process was rebuilt from scratch.
- Every outbound message signed and provably authentic. Signing applied across all outbound mail means every communication carries cryptographic proof of authenticity — protecting the firm’s reputation on every exchange, with every counterparty, across every jurisdiction.
- High-profile client processes honored, exactly as required. The precise PGP and S/MIME steps that demanding partners insist on stayed in place. The firm didn’t ask clients to adapt. It modernized the infrastructure without touching the experience.
- Governed key discovery at a global scale. Integration with external LDAP directories — including a worldwide key aggregator that consolidates public LDAPs across borders — means the firm can locate the right key for any contact automatically, cleanly, and without manual intervention at the gateway.
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The lesson is clear: with the right cloud-native platform and a trusted partner, even the world’s most reputation-sensitive institutions can carry every encryption workflow forward — preserving client trust, honoring established processes, and modernizing without missing a step.
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