Google has announced that it will acquire the well known security company, “Postini”. The deal, which is mostly worked out, will have Google acquiring the company for 625 million dollars in cash. Postini is scheduled to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Google in the third quarter of 2007. But what does this mean for security professionals as well as the common user?
It means that the Internet titan, Google, will also have the access to Postini's incredibly effective e-mail security tools. Postini made available to Google it's incredibly effective spam filter to add to the already efficient spam filter of Google's “G-Mail”. Postini also offers a web security, which provides virus and worm and also offers a system to prevent users from clicking on links that will download malicious code.
With this acquisition, look for Google, to make a serious move up in the technology field and perhaps put some real pressure on some of the other companies to keep up with them.
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