Google Email Security - Protect and secure your email system

Filter out all messaging threats including spam and viruses before they reach your network with Google Email Security.

How it works

By routing inbound and outbound email through Googles data centers as shown on Figure 1, your administrator can activate robust security policies that keep your organization secure and compliant.

Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, and delivered by IT Security and Compliance ApS. make your existing email system more secure and compliant. Built on a hosted service platform, these products blocks spam, phishing, malware and other intrusions before they reach your network, and provide content management and archiving to help you meet legal challenges.

Google’s hosted model offers several distinct advantages. Leveraging the “network effect” of tens of thousands of email networks, Google technology detects new threats in real time and blocks them across the entire Google security network – without requiring on-site updates. The platform provides the following advantages:

• Stop spam, viruses, phishing, denial of service (DoS), directory harvest attacks (DHA), and other attacks
• Ensure no delays, message loss or disruptions to email service with our patented real-time, pass-through architecture
• Allow end users to manage their own spam in an efficient manner
• Create content-based policies for inbound and outbound traffic (including pre-defined lexicons for social security and credit card numbers)
• Guarantee email arrives even if your email servers go down with spooling
• Encrypt domain-to-domain messaging using standard SSL or TLS protocols
• Enable directory synchronization with your LDAP user data to ensure new users are automatically provisioned
• 99.999% availability for message processing and capacity to handle billions of transactions a day

Deploy rapidly and maintain effortlessly

• Implement quickly, with no hardware or software to install
• Performance is monitored 24/7 by Google, and the services are SAS 70 audited
• Updates are released automatically at no additional cost and with no installation effort required

Manage email retention and discovery

• Store email in redundant and secure Google data centers, creating a reliable, offsite backup
• Search your archive using parameters such as date range, sender, recipient, subject and content
• Place search results on litigation hold to preserve messages beyond their retention periods
• Export search results to PST or MBOX format for further review and analysis
• Integrated spam and virus filtering included
• Capture and index all of your organization's email and attachments in a centralized repository