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Google's Postini Suffers Problems

Someone with a little too much faith in logic might argue that email is at its most secure when messages don't get through.  However, the average person doesn't see things that way, and this became an issue as Postini, Google's email security offering, encountered problems yesterday.

Google Pushes Its Security And Compliance Products

IT people, please don't blame us.  We neither conducted nor responded to this security and compliance survey.  But the survey's results indicate that some people (and perhaps a certain search giant) feel you're not overly effective or efficient.

Google Rolls Out New Email Security Services

Google has announced three new packages of email security products on the Google Apps platform powered by Postini.Google Message Filtering, Google Message Security and Google Message Discovery. According to Google they will operate with any email system, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise.Google Message Filtering offers basic spam filtering for any email server and is available for $3/user/ per year. For $12/user/per year Google Message Security provides email security and policy management for incoming and outgoing email messages.

Google Lets Go Of Postini Employees?

Last week, all eyes were on AOL, and perhaps even Yahoo, to see if employees would be let go prior to Christmas.  Now a surprising rumor has spread that Google filled the Grinch’s role by firing around 60 former Postini employees.

Google Preps Postini For Business World

As enamored as the tech world can be with the business to consumer relationships of Web 2.0 applications, Google understands what companies like Microsoft and IBM do - the real money is in business to business relationships.

Google's Postini Deal Goes Through

There’s no telling what’ll happen with the DoubleClick deal, but Mountain View’s Postini arrangement is no longer up in the air - the Federal Trade Commission doesn’t mind if Google acquires the email security company.

Google To Purchase Postini For $625 Million

Google has announced that it is acquiring Postini, an on demand communications e-mail security company.

Spam And Viruses Continue To Grow

The problem of spam continues to be a major annoyance for many. Over the past two years the amount of spam has increased. According to Postini, a communications security firm they blocked more than 25 million spam messages in December. This was a 144 percent increase from December 2005 to December 2006.

Spam Jams Email

What does your email inbox look like? Is it full of spam or are the filters doing their job? A report from an online security firm IronPort Systems said 62 billion spam messages a day jammed US email systems in October.