Postini: Google's take on e-mail security

**MIG-31** · Jul 1, 2009, 05:21 PM

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The computer security industry historically borrows military defense concepts to combat digital threats, literally creating war rooms where experts follow attacks in progress on huge screens with phones ringing off the hook.

Not so at Google's Postini e-mail security service provider unit. Instead, computerized systems monitor 3 billion messages per day that flow in and out of customer systems and pass through Postini's thousands of machines in data centers around the U.S. and in Europe before hitting the Internet. The Postini system is highly automated, distributed, and scalable, characteristic of all of Google's operations.
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Source: C|Net

Jul 1, 2009, 05:21 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Postini: Google's take on e-mail security MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The computer security industry historically borrows military defense concepts to combat digital threats, literally creating war rooms where experts follow attacks in progress on huge screens with phones ringing off the hook. Not so at Google's Postini e-mail security service provider unit. Instead, computerized systems monitor 3 billion messages per day that flow in and out of customer systems and pass through Postini's thousands of machines in data centers around the U.S. and in Europe before hitting the Internet. The Postini system is highly automated, distributed, and scalable, characteristic of all of Google's operations. ___________ Source: C\|Net __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here