Stories about: Postini

When Google launched its web-based e-mail service (Gmail) on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was an April Fool's Day joke, and perhaps with good reason. That same day, the company had posted plans to open a research facility on the moon.

Google this week announced its Web Security for Enterprise, a product that protects organizations against malware attacks in real time.

Yahoo's Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) and Google's Gmail are considered the two leading pretenders to the corporate e-mail throne held by Microsoft's Exchange. But a small Austin-based vendor is using Zimbra to complement, not replace, Microsoft's market-leading e-mail server.

Google's acquisition of e-mail security vendor Postini is paying off for Google Apps enterprise users, who are gaining access to extra security and compliance features.

Much as the ubiquity of Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity tools has made the software giant a focal point of security research, search giant Google is facing new scrutiny as it diversifies its products and moves further into the business environment.

Google has agreed to buy messaging security company Postini for US$625 million, a move intended to increase the appeal of Google's hosted software applications among big businesses, the companies announced Monday.

A massive spam outbreak that tries to trick recipients into opening a file attachment that can hijack their computers has already broken records, security companies said Thursday.