A large amount of highly confidential information is exchanged between business partners nowadays via email - without any level of protection on its path through the internet.

Very comprehensive security and data protection measures are requested by customers today and the requirements get more demanding every year. Only when it comes to encryption of email communication most companies in the biotech and pharma sector are rather unconcerned - although the technology is there, easy to use, rather safe and cost effective.

This matter of fact is hard to believe and the reason for that is even more difficult to identify. Hopefully, the current discussion about confidentiality, data privacy and protection creates a new awareness in the companies about the huge gap in their security strategy.

Metronomia has implemented an off-the-shelf server based PGP encryption software more than 10 years ago: Very easy to use and cost effective as not the end user but the central server takes care of encrypting and decrypting emails. Metronomia would like to motivate its partners and customers to think about their strategy with regard to email encryption and not to wait any longer.

"Mind the gap!"