Message Security

Message Security - Block spam and viruses before they hit your network

Google email security service, powered by Postini, helps keep your email free from spam, viruses, phishing, and other email threats. Google email security is a hosted solution that blocks spam and other threats well before they reach your enterprise. Unlike legacy products, it requires no hardware or software to install and maintain, thus greatly reducing your IT resource requirements and costs.

End user interface

Create content-based policies

Guaranteed email arrival

Complete spam and virus protection

• Comprehensive message security to stop spam, viruses, phishing, denial of service (DoS), directory harvest attacks (DHA), and other email attacks.
• Zero-hour anti-virus protection with multi-layered protection, including heuristic and signature-based detection.
• Extensive and detailed quarantine summary reporting to end-users through a convenient web console.

Content-based policies for inbound and outbound traffic

• Built-in lexical analysis for social security and credit card numbers.
• Build virtually any custom content rule with regular expression matching.
• Apply a variety of policy dispositions to triggerd content - approve, bounce, quarantine, quarantine redirect, log and deliver.

Real-time processing with scale and reliability

• Patented real-time, pass-through architecture ensures that there are no delays, message loss or disruptions to email service, regardless of how high spam volumes climb
• 99.999% availability for message processing and capacity to handle billions of transactions a day
• Policy enforced domain to domain messaging encryption using standard SSL or TLS protocols
• SAS 70 Type II certified and WebTrust seal validates Google's stringent standards for physical and operational security, assuring the safety of your communications
• Manage communication policies for message attachments and content

Requirements for Inbound Mail Filtering and Archiving (messages received by your users)

Domain

• You must have your own domain name for your email, not a shared or third-party domain. For example, your email address should be similar toyour_name@your_domain.com, not your_name@hotmail.com.

Access to MX Records

• You or your email administrator must be able to change your DNS MX records (used to direct your mail flow). If you own your domain, you should be able to change your MX records by working with your domain name provider or ISP. Our activation instructions will walk you through this process.

Supported Mail Servers

• The service supports all common mail servers, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino, Postfix, Sendmail, Macintosh OS X Server, and Novell Groupwise.
  Supported Service Providers (hosted email): The service is also compatible most ISPs and domain name providers that host the email for your own domain. The service is not compatible with providers that don't release mail server information, or don't allow you to change the MX records with their hosted email service. Currently known providers that are incompatible with the service include 1and1.com and XO Communications.

Requirements for Outbound Mail Filtering and Archiving (messages sent by your users)

Domain

• You must have a static IP (not a dynamic IP) for your domain. Supported Mail ServersYou or your email administrator must have administrative control over your own mail server to set up your outbound mail to flow through the service. The service supports all common mail servers, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino, Postfix, Sendmail, or Novell Groupwise.

Supported Service Providers (hosted email)

• At this time, we do not support webmail server (such as Yahoo! Domains) for your domain's email. If you do not own your own mail server, please contact us.