Architecture
Echoworx is built as a policy-driven encryption layer that complements the stack you already run. Your inbound defenses protect the perimeter. Echoworx secures what happens next—the outbound message, the attachments, and every secure reply that follows.
The platform is 100% AWS deployed and recognized as qualified AWS software. That gives architects a clean, cloud-native foundation to review and approve, with no new hardware to manage and no software to patch.
Core architectural principles:
- Policy at the center: A central policy engine evaluates every outbound message against your rules, then selects the right cryptographic path automatically. You define policy once; the platform enforces it consistently across high-volume, high-stakes external interactions.
- Stack-aware, not stack-replacing: Echoworx integrates with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, your existing secure email gateways (SEGs), and DLP tooling. Mail routes back through your established systems, so journaling, spam filtering, and inspection keep working exactly as intended.
- Cloud-native scale: An AWS-native design removes fixed-capacity limits, processing hundreds of millions of secure messages for organizations with hundreds of thousands of users.
- Visibility built in: API-driven reporting and direct SIEM integration feed delivery states, verification events, and policy triggers into your existing threat intelligence and audit workflows.
- Automated cryptography: Key and certificate management for S/MIME and PGP is fully automated—generation, renewal, and rollover—so secure communication never stalls on a manual step.
This architecture aligns directly with the modernization programs already underway: cloud migration, hybrid simplification, policy-based email security, and consolidation of external communication controls.
