Virtru

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About Virtru

At Virtru, we equip our users to take control of their data, everywhere it’s shared. Our flexible, easy-to-use, and trusted encryption technologies govern access to data throughout its full lifecycle, from creation through sharing, storage, analysis, and action.

Virtru provides:
- Seamless email and file encryption for Google Workspace (including Gmail and Google Drive) and Microsoft Outlook, scalable for large enterprises as well as individual users
- Object-level encryption solutions to secure data wherever it’s stored and shared, whether in motion or at rest
- A set of privacy engineering tools that developers can easily integrate into any application, connected device or infrastructure
- Flexible encryption key management options, including the ability to host your own keys for added control and data sovereignty requirements

Virtru’s unique capabilities include a seamless interface for senders and recipients (without the need to create a username and password); the ability to revoke access at any time, add an access expiration date, disable forward/re-sharing, and add watermarking.

Administrators can set flexible, customized access controls for their users aligned with their data loss prevention policies, including the ability to warn users before sending an email containing sensitive information.

Virtru’s privacy solutions wrap the data itself — whether it’s a file, email or other data element. This gives you persistent control over who can see it and share it, so you no longer have to worry about where it travels.

End-to-end encryption for emails and files. Supports HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, ITAR, CJIS, NIST, FERPA and CCMC compliance. Integrates seamlessly into the platforms you already use.


Key benefits of Virtru

Virtru’s unique capabilities include a seamless interface for senders and recipients (without the need to create a username and password); the ability to revoke access at any time, add an access expiration date, disable forward/re-sharing, and add watermarking. Administrators can set flexible, customized access controls for their users aligned with their data loss prevention policies, including the ability to warn users before sending an email containing sensitive information.


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Overall rating

4.6 /5
(38)
Value for Money
4.5/5
Features
4.4/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.5/5

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Kyle
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Encrypted emails all from your inbox!

Reviewed on 2020/02/13

Overall Virtru is my go to email encryption solution. It really give peace of mind when you need to...

Overall Virtru is my go to email encryption solution. It really give peace of mind when you need to send sensitive information

Pros

Alows you to send encrypted emails natively inside gmail inbox. This will also encrypt any attachments you add also!

Cons

Since this is essentially a browser extension there are some weird bugs that happen, but most of these are dealt with a simple off and on of your browser.

Sheena
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Program Manager

Reviewed on 2024/10/07

Pros

protecting emails from scammers, it helps alot

Cons

turning it on and off, makes for mistakes

Maricel
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Not that Functional

Reviewed on 2019/07/27

Pros

It’s function to secure privacy of my email was not relevant for me. Other recipients (does not have virtru) outside my company is having hard time accesing my email though my email is intended for all the recipients.

There are still other software which is better than this.

Cons

I don’t like that when virtru is enabled I still have to click another botton in order to send my email. It took longer to load the email before I can read which is not helping for me.

Erica
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  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Pleased - so far so good

Reviewed on 2020/12/17

I have been using Virtru for 3 years and primarily send medical records to patients. Overall, it's...

I have been using Virtru for 3 years and primarily send medical records to patients. Overall, it's been very positive but as I mentioned, we have had to develop clear instructions to make it more user friendly for our patients and partners.

Pros

Pros:
- it's easy to set up and train new team members to use.
- when toggled on/off it's very clear with the color change which setting you have it on
- it is a simple process to revoke an email. I like that you don't need to visit the dashboard to do so
- I reached out for customer support and received timely responses

Cons

Cons:
- Sometimes there is an issue with attachments. I have heard from many recipients that they have difficulty accessing them and it's not obvious to me as the sender why this happens
- the messages often go to a spam or junk folder
- it's not always clear when an email has been accessed
- there isn't an option to export or easily filter messages in the dashboard
- once you have accessed a secure message it's easy after that, but it can be confusing for first time users. I have had to start sending instructions about how to retrieve the passcode, but it results in frustration from time to time. patients just want to read their message. they don't want to jump through hoops to do it.
- if sending from an alias, you cannot tell which person read it

Christian
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  • Industry: Mental Health Care
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Protection Made Easy

Reviewed on 2020/11/03

We are in the mental health business and have the confines of HIPAA to pay attention to. Virtru is...

We are in the mental health business and have the confines of HIPAA to pay attention to. Virtru is a product that allows staff to deliver sensitive reports to other medical providers in our area in a secure manner. I also value this added layer of protection for email within the agency - to protect information at all times.

Pros

The extension into Chrome and working seamlessly with Gmail is wonderful. The ability to set controls and even making sent mail disappear after 10 days is outstanding. I value that everyone receiving can easily open our encrypted email and not have to deal with another user ID and password. This product is very sophisticated.

Cons

Once in a while the extension disappears from Chrome. I have had a number of employees suddenly no longer have Virtru installed and wondering how to get it back. While not that hard to "reinstall", it is bothersome that this occurs.

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Virtru FAQs

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Virtru offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$119.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Virtru has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Virtru supports the following languages:

English

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Virtru integrates with the following applications:

Gmail, Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook

Virtru offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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