Virtru Email Protection for Gmail

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Explainer

After you install and activate Virtru, a series of popup explainers walk through the available features.

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Options

You can set your encrypted messages to expire after an interval from minutes to years, and prevent recipients from forwarding them. In addition, you can watermark attached documents and add protection that lasts even after the recipient downloads them.

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Received Message

The recipient of a Virtru-encrypted message gets a notification like this, with a link to unlock the actual message and an optional personalized introduction.

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Secure Reply

From the online secure reader, your recipients can send a secure reply. They can also securely forward the message, providing you haven’t disabled forwarding.

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Watermarked Document

The watermark feature marks documents of supported types with a watermark of your email address, proving that the document came from you.

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Can’t Cheat

A clever snoop who somehow captured the link to read a secure message can’t just read it willy-nilly. If the request doesn’t demonstrably come from the specified recipient, Virtru requires additional authentication.

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Dashboard

The online Virtru dashboard tracks your secured email messages and files, with icons that identify attachments and let you know whether the recipient read the message.

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Dashboard Details

From the dashboard you can change a message’s security settings, for example adding or modifying its expiration or disabling the option to forward it. You can also revoke all access with a click.

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