Postini authorizes FVC as exclusive distributor for Middle East & North Africa

Postini is the leading global provider of on-demand services that make electronic communications, including email, instant messaging (IM) and the web, more secure, compliant and productive. Postini protects more than 36,000 businesses around the world from viruses, spam, phishing, fraud and other attacks, ensuring that electronic mail, IM and web communications remains safe and productive.

The availability of Postini's services in the Middle East and Africa comes at an opportune time. According to Mark Sparshott, Postini's director of channels for the Middle East and Africa, 'Electronic mail is under siege, with attacks against businesses by hackers up 128% in the last twelve months alone.' Sparshott added that, 'In the last year the amount of spam more than doubled to 91% of all email traffic processed by Postini, and at the same time the bandwidth and processing power required to deal with spam more than trebled. In the past two months alone Postini saw the amount of spam increase by nearly 60%.'

'Postini's on-demand services protect businesses from a wide range of threats, reduce compliance and legal risks, and ensure reliable communications,' said K.S. Parag, Managing Director, FVC. 'We have recently signed with eHosting Datafort (EHDF) to provide them with managed security and email services and our agreement with Postini will allow us to provide a much more robust and cost effective service not just through EHDF but also widen our portfolio of security solutions.'

With Postini's enterprise-class on-demand services, there is no software or hardware to buy, install, maintain, or upgrade. Administrators use standard web browsers to manage the system, and users seamlessly continue to use their existing email, instant messaging and Web software.

Postini's on-demand services block unwanted, malicious or offensive content before it reaches the end user, saving valuable resources, increasing performance and reducing costs. Combined with the ability to be deployed within hours or days, Postini has been consistently rated as the top communications security and compliance solution in third party magazine, test lab, and analyst reviews.

Postini's electronic mail security solutions are immediately available across Middle East and North Africa through FVC's resellers in the region.