[Infowarrior] - Google's take on e-mail security

[Richard Forno]

  July 1, 2009 8:00 AM PDT
Postini: Google's take on e-mail security
by Elinor Mills


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.

Google's Gmail antispam efforts are separate from those of Postini,  
which Google acquired two years ago, although it follows similar  
computerized operations and the teams have started to integrate the  
processes.

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