Postini's Perimeter Manager Named as Product of the Year by Information Security Magazine

Postini's Perimeter Manager Named as Product of the Year by Information Security Magazine

Postini's Perimeter Manager Takes Gold in Content Filtering Category

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Postini, the industry's leading provider of email security and management for the enterprise, today announced that Postini's Perimeter Manager was honored as The "Product of the Year" in the content filtering category in the Information Security 2004 "Products of the Year" awards. In a review of hundreds of companies and thousands of products, Postini's Perimeter Manager came out on top in its category, beating out the competition to take home the gold medal.

Analysts from TheInfoPro interviewed 416 security managers working in 273 companies, evaluating a total of 1,239 products. The resulting gold, silver and bronze winners were selected based on composite scores using the following criteria: vendor's brand or reputation, quality of product, delivery of product as promised, quality of technical support, technical innovation, strategic vision, competitive positioning of product, quality of the sales team, interoperability, and ease of doing business with the vendor.

Postini's patented managed service model has become a widely adopted method of protecting enterprises from spam, viruses and other email threats. The company's Preemptive Email Protection technology protects enterprise servers and desktops at the perimeter, stopping spam and viruses before they enter the network. The solution handles enterprise email system security and management including spam and virus filtering, content and policy management, message encryption, disaster recovery, industry specific content filtering, and protection from email attacks such as directory harvest attacks (DHAs) and email denial of service (DoS) attacks.

"We are very pleased to win the Information Security 2004 'Products of the Year' award," said Scott Petry, founder and senior vice president of products and engineering of Postini. "Over 4,000 businesses trust Postini with their email security. This award further validates the market acceptance of Postini as the leading email security service to address all email threats."

About Postini

Postini, Inc. is the leading provider of email security and management services that protect email infrastructure by preventing spam and attacks from reaching the enterprise gateway. Postini's patented managed services model utilizes exclusive preEMPT(TM)transport and content filtering technology to eliminate spam and viruses, stop DoS and directory harvest attacks, safeguard content, and improve email performance. Founded in 1999, Postini processes more than 2.4 billion message connections every week for more than 4,000 companies. By blocking spam, viruses and attacks before they can reach the enterprise email gateway, Postini Perimeter Manager is designed to assure complete email security while saving bandwidth, conserving server capacity and minimizing administrative costs. For more information contact Postini at its Redwood City, California headquarters toll-free at 866-767-8461, or visit www.postini.com.

About Information Security

A monthly magazine distributed to a qualified, controlled circulation of 65,000 IT security professionals, TechTarget's Information Security is widely regarded as the single most authoritative source for in-depth coverage of security technologies, practices, and trends. The magazine's more than 100 advertisers include the leading vendors of security services and technologies, among them, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, CA, RSA Security, Symantec and VeriSign.

About TheInfoPro

TheInfoPro (TIP) investigates key technology sectors in six-month intervals or "waves" by interviewing hundreds of IT decision makers, pre-screened for domain expertise, for an average of one hour each. Known as the "voice of the customer," thousands of IT professionals, technology providers and institutional investors rely on TIP research for robust data on vendor spending and ratings, technology adoption plans -- overlaying the vendors poised to benefit -- and rich narrative commentary. TIP studies the Information Security, Storage, Networking, and Server markets. Over 800 technology decision makers are members of the TIPNetwork, including IT decision makers from JPMorgan Chase, BellSouth, Honeywell, P&G and Visa. To learn more about TIP's independent, objective research process, where results are delivered without any analyst spin or bias, visit www.TheInfoPro.net.

Media Contacts:

Marty Tacktill Bryan Ferraro
Postini Neale-May & Partners
650-482-3197 650-328-5555 ext. 277
marty@postini.combferraro@nealemay.com


Source: Postini, Inc.

CONTACT: Marty Tacktill of Postini, +1-650-482-3197, or
marty@postini.com; or Bryan Ferraro of Neale-May & Partners, +1-650-328-5555,
ext. 277, or bferraro@nealemay.com, for Postini

Web site: http://www.postini.com/


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