Case Study: Columbia County, New York achieves HIPAA and CJIS‑compliant, county‑wide automatic email encryption with Virtru

How Virtru Shows Columbia County Employees When to Encrypt

Columbia County, New York — a county government with 23 departments and more than 450 staff — needed to secure a high volume of sensitive email traffic and prove compliance with CJIS and HIPAA. After finding SOPHOS insufficient for cloud/Gmail use, Columbia County selected Virtru for client‑side email encryption and data loss prevention to protect communications across departments like healthcare, courts, probation, and the sheriff’s office.

Virtru was rolled out county‑wide and integrated with Gmail and Outlook to inspect subject lines, message content and attachments, automatically encrypting or warning on emails that contain SSNs, credit card numbers, flagged keywords, or that are sent to specified domains. The deployment delivered automated compliance with CJIS and HIPAA, reduced human error, simplified audits, and enabled secure replies from external recipients — outcomes Columbia’s CTO Richard Juliano attributes to Virtru’s ease of use, fast installation, and strong support.

Columbia County, New York

Richard Juliano

Chief Technology Officer