The threat landscape for email and web has evolved rapidly in the last 18 months. Attacks have increased in volume and sophistication causing businesses of all sizes to look for effective solutions to defend against these evolving attacks. Message Security 3.0 describes a set of solutions that deliver highly effective protection from today's messaging threats. Join CNET (TechRepublic), Osterman Research, and Google to learn more about the growing volume and sophistication of email based threats and why a different approach is required to protect your company's email.

Is your email security solution as effective as it can be? Are you confident it will continue to protect your organization from escalating spam and virus threats?

With spam and virus attacks at record levels, and spammers using increasingly sophisticated techniques, Google commissioned Osterman Research to conduct a study of organizations to assess the performance of their on-demand and on-premise email security solutions. Osterman Research shares what they uncovered in their research of companies using Google Message Security compared to companies using other solutions. Download this whitepaper to learn why Google Message Security offers more effective email security with a lower total cost of ownership to your organization.

At the end of 2007, Google conducted an annual online survey of messaging professionals. The survey highlighted the major communications trends that messaging professionals faced over the past year and provided insight into the pressing issues they expect to confront in the coming year. The survey of business communications executives and professionals uncovered several key trends in communications over the past year.

• The number of electronic messages increased in 2007, with spam still a huge issue for most organizations
• IT personnel—not end-users—are responsible for ensuring security and compliance
• Serious challenges that negatively impact productivity stand in the way of reaching security and compliance goals
• Communications security and compliance solutions based on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model can address these productivity issues
• In the year ahead, Google expects the number of business communications security threats to stabilize but their complexity to increase dramatically

Download this insightful report to learn more about business communications priorities, industry expectations, and best practices for communications security and compliance in 2008.

Should you archive your organization's email content? According to the American Management Association, 24% of companies have
experienced their employees' email being subpoenaed and 15% have gone to court because of lawsuits brought on by their employees' email. The statistics don't stop here.

This whitepaper addresses other compelling reasons for the implementation of a messaging archiving system and provides an overview of the top vendors whose offerings are focused squarely on the archiving space.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions can help you overcome your challenges. To select the right solution you should consider the following factors:

• Effectiveness – How effective are SaaS solutions?
• Flexibility – How can I configure and change my policies?
• Speed and ease of deployment – How quickly can I deploy?
• Scale and reliability – Can this solution handle my volume?
• Total cost of ownership – What are my IT life-cycle costs?

This paper explores these factors in detail.

Access to the web is not an option anymore. However, criminal hackers have cost businesses billions. Often enough the vector used to exploit an unsuspecting user's vulnerabilities are not what you may think. Protecting against this and future generations of web threats requires a different approach.

Download this white paper to learn more about the dynamic web threat landscape and steps you can take to protect your organization.

Organizations can manage their messaging functionality in one of three ways:

1. Completely internally using in-house staff, ardware and software.
2. Completely externally, using hosted or managed service providers for all messaging functions.
3. Through the use of a hybrid approach in which some functions are managed internally and some are managed by a third party.

This white paper offers an unbiased discussion and analysis of the key elements that must be considered by decision makers as they evaluate options for managing their messaging systems. Its goal is to inform decision makers about the benefits of using a hosted or managed messaging service and the key questions to ask of any provider of a single messaging service or a complete suite of services.

As email is business-critical, every organization needs to understand how email is making them vulnerable. Without concrete action, they risk lost productivity, lost data, lost business and punitive damages. This report focuses on the threats posed by both inbound and outbound email as well as the strategies, capabilities and technologies Best-in- Class companies use to mitigate these threats.

The use of electronic data is rapidly increasing, and companies must find ways to manage it now so that they effectively control compliance risks. Proper archiving, retention, monitoring, filtering, and encryption of electronic data are no longer an option: it is imperative.

It is therefore little wonder that 86% of General Counsel in a survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) listed their main concern as "keeping rack of company activities that may have legal implications."  By 2005, 24% of companies had email subpoenaed and 15% had gone to court over lawsuits triggered by just employee email.

Are you ready? Learn the top 10 ways to plan for managing electronic data and avoiding tomorrow's legal risks through archiving, e-discovery, and encryption. 

This report:

• Delivers the evolution of message threats in 2006.
• Highlights major changes in the regulatory climate.
• Describes how organizations are responding to changes in threats and regulations.
• Explains trends in message management and security for 2007.

In addition, this report offers executives and IT professionals a resource to:

• Gain a comprehensive overview of changes in business communications trends, threats, and the regulatory environment.
• Review the latest tactics and trends in internet-borne threats, and get an overview of how organizations are responding.
• Get a preview of emerging priorities and concerns that may help you plan business communications strategies.
  

The newly adopted amendments to the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure (FRCP) will have a major impact on the way
that organizations manage electronic data. However, an
Osterman Research survey conducted in December 2006
found that more than one-half of organizations do not
understand the new rules well enough to understand the
impact that they will have on their data retention practices.

This white paper focuses on the new FRCP amendments and
the impact that they will have on organizations of all sizes.

Unternehmen in aller Welt verstehen zum größten Teil die Gefahren für ihre E-Mail-Kommunikation, die von Viren und Spam ausgehen. Die meisten von ihnen haben ihre nicht aufeinander abgestimmten Anti-Viren- und Anti-Spam-Programme durch kombinierte Lösungen ersetzt. Viele Unternehmen verabschieden sich derzeit von den Anti-Spam-Lösungen der ersten Generation, die ausschließlich auf technologisch überholten Inhaltsfiltern beruhen. Diese Neuorientierung erfolgt aufgrund der rasanten Entwicklung neuer Bedrohungen, z. B. "Directory Harvest Attacks", "Phishing" und "Zombie Attacks". Diese Gefahren erfordern eine eingehendere Analyse des Verbindungsverhaltens sowie eine strengere Filterung von Inhalten.

Because most employees save all their email for future reference, email servers can easily become overloaded, causing IT managers to limit employee mail box storage. See how operational archiving can give your employees fast, online access to all their email and Instant Messages while reducing the storage burden on your email servers.

Over the past several years, various individuals and companies have developed proprietary email encryption methods, and the means to implement them. Standards such as PKI, S/MIME, and OpenPGP were developed to secure emails but at a relatively high cost in time, effort and expense, and often with unpredictable results.

This white paper describes how Postini Encryption Manager now offers an easier and more affordable method of securing email connections and email content anytime, for any recipient, according to specified policies. Postini Encryption Manager gives message administrators unmatched flexibility and control to manage and enforce policy-based encryption without the cost and complexity typically associated with traditional PKI solutions.

Email archiving is perhaps one of the least understood components of good messaging management. Although many believe that the requirement for email archiving is limited to broker-dealers and other highly regulated organizations, archiving is an increasingly critical requirement for all organizations in all industries. Email archiving can not only assist an organization with regulatory compliance, but it can also be a valuable tool for legal discovery. Further, from an operational efficiency standpoint, an archiving system can make email storage dramatically more efficient by eliminating the impact of mailbox size quotas, it can allow end users to recover their own deleted and older emails and it can reduce the rapidly increasing cost of email storage.

This white paper discusses the key issues to consider when evaluating email archiving systems and it discusses the Postini approach to managed email archiving.

Electronic Message Archiving – Postini’s Managed Service Approach explains the importance of archiving email and instant messaging (IM), explains why organizations must carefully evaluate archiving solution options, and describes the important roles Legal, HR and IT departments play in implementing electronic record retention best practices. It also describes why Postini Archive Manager is uniquely fitted to serve as an organization’s electronic communications record retention arm.