BASF has signed a major pound deal with Postini to help
secure its e-mail systems across 170 countries.
The managed service contract requires Postini to meet different
mail routing requirements, to customise handling of different mail
streams, and to comply with German and international data security
and privacy requirements.
Global chemicals manufacturer BASF recently decided to optimise
its e-mail architecture by consolidating its multiple internet
e-mail domains into a single global domain.
To help manage the new architecture and protect the new global
domain from a probable increase in spam and virus attacks, BASF
went to Postini for help.
“We consider e-mail a mission-critical application, so our goal
is to proactively address business risk by blocking spam and
viruses before they enter our company’s e-mail servers,” said
Brigitte Buchsrucker, senior specialist for IS architecture at
BASF’s Global Competence Centre for Information Services.
“Postini’s e-mail security service is easy to manage, offering
logical, intuitive administration tools requiring little
administrative effort, which is very important to us,” said
Buchsrucker.
Buchsrucker said BASF also valued Postini’s multiple regional
data centres to address specific language, cultural and security
requirements. Postini currently operates data centres in Santa
Clara, California; Chicago; London; Amsterdam; Zurich, and
Geneva.
A total of 60,000 BASF employees are now supported by Postini’s
Perimeter Manager Enterprise Edition platform. On average, Postini
processes about 370,000 incoming messages a day for BASF, or about
11 million messages a month.
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