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Google Message SecurityProtect your email inrastructure rom spam and viruses;

easily set and manage usage policies

Make your email servers more secure, compliant, and productive. Block email threats

beore they reach your organization. Ensure proprietary inormation that must remain

condential stays where it’s sae. Eliminate the need or the ongoing patching and

updates required by appliance or sotware solutions. Leverage cloud services to reduce

maintenance, conserve bandwidth, and improve the perormance o your existing email

inrastructure.

Product Summary

Google Message Security, powered by Postini, is a secure, hosted service that provides

enterprise-grade spam and virus protection and email content ltering, delivering cost-

eective email management. Google Message Security lets you:

• secureyourinboundandoutboundemailfromspam,viruses,phishing,andotheremail-borne threats

• setcentralemailpoliciestomanagecontentandcompliancerequirements

• receiveemailmessagesevenifyouremailservergoesdown

Google Message Security automatically enorces your email security policies to help

assure legal and regulatory compliance or both inbound and outbound email across

your organization. The service also provides a convenient web console or administration,

enabling real-time conguration and policy modications, monitoring, and alerting,

as well as comprehensive reporting or administrators. Dene users in the console,

or integrate Google Message Security with your organization directory or easy usersynchronization.

Google Message Security also:

• includespatentedanti-spamtechnology,whichexaminesthousandsofelementsofan email message to determine saety

Figure 1: Google Message Security provides highly eective inbound and outbound email security or

organizations o all sizes

For more inormation, visit

www.google.com/postini

ABOUT GOOGLE SECURITY AND

ARCHIVING, POWERED BY POSTINI

Google security and archiving products,

powered by Postini, make email

systems more secure, compliant and

productive by blocking spam and

other intrusions beore they reach your

network, and by providing encryption

and archiving to help you meet

compliance requirements. Google’s

hosted model leverages the “network

eect” created by billions o dailyemail connections to detect and block

threats in real time, without requiring

on-site updates. Economies o scale in

storage, along with simple deployment

and maintenance-ree service, drive a

low total cost o ownership.

MessageProcessing

Simple DNSconfigurationinserts Postini

in data flow

Message DataAnalysis

Message dataunencapsulatedand analyzed in

real-timewithout beingwritten to disk

PolicyFramework

Configurablesecurity,

compliance,user, and

organizationpolicies and

messageprocessing rules

Disposition

Policy trigger for message

delivery,bounce,

quarantine,supervisor 

routing, encrypt,archive, or other 

Google Message Security

DispositionPolicy

FrameworkMessage Data

AnalysisMessage

Processing

Recipients

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GOOGLE MESSAGE SECURITY

• deliversexceptionallylowfalsepositiverates

• leveragesglobal“networkeect”basedonbillionsofemailmessagesperdaytoidentiy emerging threats, ensuring early blocking and prevention. Quickly sel-corrects

or sae IP addresses so that email ow is not interrupted

• easesITmanagementofpolicyconguration,ensuringappropriateuserguidelines

• letsendusersmanagetheirownmessagequarantinesandsettingsandne-tunepreerences within IT-set policies, via an easy-to-use web interace and without

additional support

• includesTransportLayerSecurity(TLS)support,allowingencryptionofsensitiveemailcommunications(canbeautomaticallyenforcedforcommunicationsbetweendesignatedemaildomains)

Google Message Security supports the ollowing:

Mail servers The service supports common mail servers including Microsot Exchange

Server, Lotus Domino, Postx, Sendmail, Macintosh OS X Server, Novell Groupwise, and

is also included in Google Apps Premier Edition.

Service Providers (hosted email) The service is compatible with ISPs and domain

name providers that host the email or your own domain but you must have the ability to

change the MX records associated with your service.

Feature Benefts

Spam and virus protection Provide multi-layer threat identication including heuristic and

signature-based detection, commercial anti-virus engines, and

“zero-hour” protection rom rapidly mutating viruses

Directory harvest attack/denial o

service blocking

Prevents attacks with patented behavior analysis

Patented pass-through architecture Ensures maximum privacy o your email

Content policy management Enorces acceptable use policies and content compliance or inbound

and outbound email

Scalability Built-in scale or dealing with any kinds o spam spikes or

targeted attacks

Web-based administration console Allows real-time user and policy updates,

conguration changes, and reporting

Log search Retrieve and export log inormation on inbound and outbound

message routing details

Email spooling Continue to receive email messages even i your email server

goes down

Domain-to-domain encryption Transmit secure messages with policy-enorced Transport Layer

Security protocols

Attachment ltering Enorce policies including attachment size or le type limitations

Intelligent routing Easily route email trafc to decentralized data center locations

Robust service level agreement 100% anti-virus and 99.999% service uptime

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