POSTINI & Google Apps

POSTINI is the premier hosted email security and compliance solution. POSTINI was acquired by Google and has subsequently been integrated into the suite of solutions available within the Google Apps offering. What exactly does that mean to any organization that uses the Google Apps products? It means that enterprise grade email tools like spam filtering, virus filtering, trojan filtering, and sophisticated email compliance and archiving tools are available for Google Hosted Mail.

As a result of recent extensive compliance and regulatory legislation at both state and federal levels, many companies have to comply to a host of complex rules for managing and archiving email. While there are a number of server side enterprise (whenever you hear “enterprise” think big $$$) applications for assisting organizations in email compliance and archiving requirements, none of them have achieved the success and reputation of the on-line solutions from POSTINI. With 40,000 plus customers ranging from banks to large retail businesses, POSTINI has a set of extensively tested and deployed tools for creating sophisticated filters and rules for setting compliance procedures. In addition to the POSTINI compliance tools, POSTINI has the most comprehensive email spam and virus tools available anywhere.

Web based and easily integrated with Google Apps, the POSTINI suite of applications can be sourced in three different offerings depending upon your requirements. For those organizations who don’t need the full suite of offerings typically needed by publicly traded companies, there is the Message Filtering offering. If your organization needs the ability to use rule based procedures for email content management, e.g., procedures such as blocking email that contains offensive and or abusive content, there is the Message Security offering. Finally for those organizations that need comprehensive email threat prevention, content management, and archiving and retention features, there is the Message Discovery solution. Each of the more advanced POSTINI solutions contains the components of the less feature based offering in front of it.

It goes without saying that if you don’t decide to use any of the POSTINI offerings, your organization will still be using the best hosted email solution when it comes to SPAM and Virus management. The FREE and base level professional versions of Google Apps has the absolute best virus and spam engines of any email solution. If, however, there is a need or a desire to implement solutions that provide greater and granular control over email threat protection, content policy management, and message archiving and retention, the offerings available through the Google Apps POSTINI solutions are as good as it gets when it comes to commercial grade mail compliance products.

For additional information and or complete details on how your organization can get the best hosted email solution available as well as develop a comprehensive set of email content, policy, and retention management processes for your organization, contact us (415-233-6856 or click HERE) to talk find out how OMBNexGen can help you and your organization!

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