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Phillip Zimmerman: Indisputed King of PGP and Internet Security By Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com 
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Phil Zimmerman is currently a senior fellow at Network Associates, Inc., former president of PGP, Inc. and, at age 46, is leading the world in email and data security with the invention of Pretty Good Privacy or PGP. This encryption software is known the world over as the most superior product ever created. Released in 1991, PGP has been used worldwide to encrypt data and email and to keep it safe in places such as Kosovo, Sarajevo, Croatia, and Guatemala. Phil Zimmerman is quick to point out that PGP is extremely vital in keeping nosey governments at bay but that it is also equally vital in protecting corporate data and email transmissions from other companies that might attempt to steal secrets from the enterprise. The release of PGP dramatically changed the security landscape. Prior to this time, there was no secure means for two or more individuals to communicate with one another in an environment that was thought to be safe from prying eyes. PGP changed all that by giving the sender and recipient of email and other data a security blanket never seen before in the history of electronic transmission. In 1993, the government, more precisely the NSA or National Security Agency, felt that Phil Zimmerman was a threat to its ability to harbor secrets and pry into others' secrets. So, in a bold move, the federal government informed Mr. Zimmerman that he was under surveillance and that the encryption technology that he had devised was in violation of the government's restrictions on exporting encryption technologies. After an arduous 3 years, in January, 1996 the government dropped its case against him. Phil Zimmerman attributes this action on several factors, but is not at liberty to disclose them since this was one of the conditions under which the government stopped pursuing its case against him. Following his battle with the federal government, Mr. Zimmerman was free to form his own company, PGP, Inc., and in 1997, Network Associates, Inc. bought his company and merged it with two others, Helix, Inc. and McAfee Antivirus to form Network Associates, Inc. Since the merger, Network Associates, Inc. has turned PGP into its primary encryption platform for the enterprise. With the threat of the government behind him, Phil Zimmerman says that today's threat comes more from other companies than from "Big Brother." He sees data encryption and communications encryption as extremely vital in maintaining security in the corporate workplace. His vision of the future is in Wireless Application Protocol technology and he feels that PGP will play a vital role in that technology if people are to come to accept it as a safe and reliable means of communicating with others. If you would like to learn more about PGP, visit Network Associates, Inc.'s website or checkout Mr. Zimmerman's international website at PGP International. You can download a free copy of PGP from the Network Associates Inc. website but you must agree not to export the technology outside the contiguous U.S. and its territories through the means of sending email or other data transmissions. © October 22, 2000 |
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