SendGrid Addresses Growing Surveillance Threat By Introducing Automatic Encryption For Emails - At No Extra Cost

BOULDER, Colo., June 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SendGrid, the leading email delivery service for the world's wanted email, today announced the launch of SendGrid Transport Layer Security (TLS) Encryption. With this feature, SendGrid now proactively negotiates an encrypted connection with mailbox providers and ensures that email messages cannot be intercepted, collected or modified in transit.

"June 5 marks the one year anniversary of the published leaks about NSA surveillance, and in this age of increased eavesdropping and data tampering, we are taking a proactive approach to increasing privacy and security for all of our customers," said Paul Ford, vice president of product and marketing, SendGrid. "As long as the mailbox provider accepts TLS, our TLS Encryption feature will be applied to emails sent using SendGrid to protect these messages from SendGrid to the recipient - regardless of package type."

Currently, mailbox providers including Gmail, Yahoo and AOL accept inbound TLS connections. The TLS protocol authenticates the email receiver's server and ensures that the content is not captured or modified in transit. However, mail is encrypted through these mailbox providers if the sender proactively sends through an outbound TLS connection.

SendGrid is now activating outbound TLS for all mail sent through its servers and will proactively ask the receiving servers if they support TLS encryption. Every email sent via SendGrid will be sent with this secure TLS encryption if the receiving mail server supports TLS - even if it arrived to SendGrid without encryption. There is no requirement for this outbound TLS feature to be switched on, as it is enabled by default.

SendGrid has invested considerable resources to upgrade its entire infrastructure at no cost to its customers, ensuring an automatic, secure encrypted connection for email that passes through its servers.

About SendGrid

SendGrid is the leader in application email infrastructure. SendGrid's cloud-based platform increases email deliverability, provides actionable insight and scales to meet any volume of email, relieving businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email infrastructures. The email delivery platform of choice for 160,000 web application companies and developers, including Uber, foursquare, Pinterest, Airbnb, Twilio, Spotify and Pandora, SendGrid delivers more than 100 billion emails per year. Founded in 2009 as part of Techstars and based in Boulder, Colorado, SendGrid is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, Bullet Time Ventures, SoftTech VC, 500 Startups and several notable individual investors such as Matt Mullenweg and Scott Petry. For more information, visit www.sendgrid.com.

Media Contact:
David Friedman, SendGrid
303-868-9641
[email protected]

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