Postini Announces New and Enhanced Solutions for Communications Security and Compliance
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SAN CARLOS, Calif., April 2 /- Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions for email, instant messaging and the web, today announced new additions and enhancements to its integrated suite of Software as a Service solutions. Postini's solutions are designed to protect businesses worldwide from threats to their electronic communications, control business policies, secure intellectual property, assure privacy, and ease compliance with legal and industry mandates for the retention and discovery of email and instant messages.
"We chose Postini to protect our business from threats and to keep our employees secure and productive," said Renate Tomesch, global enterprise messaging manager for Johnson Controls, Inc., a global leader in automotive systems and facility management and control, building efficiency and power solutions. "The on-demand service was extremely easy to deploy and has effectively scaled to keep up with the increasing volume of threats."
"Businesses worldwide are facing dramatically increased threats against their mission critical communications infrastructure. Growing regulation and legal exposure make compliance more important than ever before," said Quentin Gallivan, president and chief executive officer at Postini. "Postini's on-demand communications security and compliance solutions, complemented by our network of business partners, provide a highly effective way for companies to quickly and cost-effectively address these issues."
Postini's new additions and enhancements to its suite of communications security and compliance solutions provide unique benefits to businesses of all sizes.
Simplify communications compliance and reduce e-discovery costs
Postini's message archiving solutions offer businesses centralized, on-demand archiving of email and instant messages, grant individuals self-service capabilities for search and retrieval, and expedite the discovery and recovery of information for HR, IT and legal inquiries. New capabilities include:
o Investigation management -- New investigation management tools make it
easier and more cost effective for businesses to manage the discovery
process, including compliance, with the newly amended Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure.
o Productivity for business users and IT organizations -- The new Postini
Personal Archive and Postini Toolbar provide business users with desktop
access to archived messages, empowering them to find and restore lost or
deleted messages without IT assistance.
Postini email encryption solutions provide secure, policy-based email encryption which is designed to protect privacy, prevent IP leakage, and enable compliance with internal business policies and domestic and international government regulations. Among the enhancements are:
o Email message encryption -- New email message encryption enables
business users to safely send encrypted email over the internet directly
to anyone, including consumers. These encrypted emails can be easily
decrypted, viewed and replied to within their email inbox. Coupled with
Postini's policy enforced TLS encryption solution, organizations now can
deploy secure email for both business-to-business and
business-to-consumer communications.
Protect from global threats across multiple communications channels
Postini's communications security solutions are designed to protect businesses from external threats such as spam, viruses, phishing, fraud, and other attacks across email, instant messaging and the web. These solutions also enable businesses to enforce policies designed to protect privacy and prevent event intellectual property leakage.
Postini Email Security has been significantly enhanced with new innovations including:
o Adaptive heuristics -- New algorithms to detect and protect against
distributed bot-net attacks, as well as enhanced content scanning and
image detection algorithms to detect and block image based spam,
significantly enhance the security of email communications.
o Improved network intelligence -- Significant performance and data
sharing improvements to Postini Threat Information Network (PTIN)
deliver early detection and blocking of zero-hour spam and virus
outbreaks.
o Binary data scanning -- Enhanced content inspection capabilities for
binary and compressed files can block malware from entering and keep
confidential information from exiting the business.
Postini Web Security protects businesses from web based threats and enforces acceptable web usage policies. New capabilities include:
o Pre-scanned search results -- New search result classification with an
"early warning system" for search results from popular search engines
including Google, Yahoo! and MSN alerts users to search results linking
to sites that contain malware or inappropriate content.
o Intelligent web protection -- New intelligent web protection blocks
access to portions of web sites that conflict with usage policies or
contain malicious content, allowing unimpeded access to the remainder of
the site.
New Postini platform services deliver productivity and integration
Postini's solutions are built on a uniquely architected on-demand platform that enables administrators to implement unified communication policies, manage users and track results from a centralized web-based console. New capabilities include:
o New Postini Message Center -- New user interface unifies end-user access
to all Postini solutions, dramatically simplifies navigation, improves
business user productivity and reduces the cost of IT administration.
o New Postini web services -- New web services enable automated and
seamless connectivity between Postini's systems and those of Postini
clients and business partners based on open internet standards.
o Expanded operations -- Postini's addition of two secure data centers in
Vancouver and Toronto expands Postini operations to fourteen systems
enabling Postini to offer its solutions in-country to Canadian
businesses.
Partners embrace Postini solutions
More than 1,700 business partners around the world add value to Postini solutions. New Postini partners Affiliated Computer Services and CGI are headquartered in North America. Controlware, dns, Gradian Systems, Infratects, and Vaices are new partners that will serve businesses in EMEA. Companies in Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries will be able to work with new Postini partners Japan Communications and VeriSign Japan.
"One of the reasons dns is a leading provider of information security services in the UK is because we have an exclusive focus on security. So you can be certain that we did our homework when we added Postini to our portfolio of supported offerings, which actually replaced a competitive solution," said Richard Lewis, sales & marketing director, dns. "We see this relationship as key to providing our clients with comprehensive security solutions."
Availability
Postini's new and enhanced on-demand solutions for communication security and compliance are planned for availability in Q2 2007.
Video webcast detailing the new and enhanced solutions
On Tuesday, April 3, at 8:00 am PDT, Postini will host a video webcast featuring Postini founder, chief technology officer and executive vice president of product development, Scott Petry, detailing Postini's new and enhanced communications security and compliance solutions. To register for the video webcast go to www.postini.com/csc_launch
About Postini
Postini is a global leader in on-demand communications security, compliance, and productivity solutions for email, instant messaging and the web. Postini's award-winning services are designed to protect customers from viruses, spam, phishing, fraud, and other attacks; encrypt messages to ensure confidentiality and privacy; and archive communications to ensure compliance with regulations and to prepare for e-discovery.
More than 36,000 businesses rely on Postini everyday to protect them from a wide range of threats, ensure reliable communications, reduce compliance and legal risks, and enable the intelligent management and enforcement of enterprise policies to protect intellectual property, reputations, and business relationships. More than 1,700 business partners worldwide add value to Postini solutions. For more information please contact Postini at info@postini.com or visit www.postini.com/ .
Media Contacts:
Marty Tacktill
Postini
(650) 486-8269
marty@postini.com
Source: Postini
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