July 9th, 2007
Another interesting Google acquisition: Postini
Google made the announcement today about their acquisition of Postini for $625 million, a hosted enterprise communication security solution that enables companies to protect their users from things like viruses and phishing attacks. It also provides a robust archiving service that helps organizations stay in compliance with regulations.
Postini is the 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.
Since the for-pay version of Google Apps was launched, Postini has been one of the third party services available as a paying subscriber. Now the company is a part of Google, it wouldn’t surprise me if pieces of the Postini solution find their way into the free edition of Google Apps in the future.
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry.
See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
Subscribe to Googling Google via Email alerts or RSS.
