Will provide email security services to McAfee's customers & channel partners.

McAfee, Inc., a provider of Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management, today announced the availability of McAfee Secure Messaging Service for small businesses and also for enterprises.

Based on the patented Postini Perimeter Manager product line, the new McAfee solutions offer email threat prevention and flexible policy management to business customers looking to reduce the burden of securing and managing their email systems, claims the company.

McAfee's Secure Messaging Service offering greatly reduces the infrastructure required to process messages by stopping spam, viruses and directory harvest attacks at the perimeter. The services ensure this by quarantining spam and virus infected emails before they enter the network, in some cases, reducing mail volumes by 70 to 80 percent. Additionally, customizable spam settings and whitelisting/blacklisting functionality give end users personal control to manage their own definitions of what is legitimate email, and what is unwanted email.

"McAfee Secure Messaging Services proactively protect our customers' networks from spam, phishing, and other threats, while decreasing the amount of email entering their network by up to 80%," said Vincent Rossi, Senior Vice President of product marketing and product management, McAfee. "McAfee is excited to offer this service through our global distribution and reseller network, helping them to increase customer satisfaction and lower total cost of ownership, while driving recurring revenue annuities."