Listed in Gartner's Email Security Boundary 1H05 Magic Quadrant; report evaluated vendors in both the ability to execute and vision categories.

Postini, a provider of email security and management, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's Email Security Boundary 1H05 Magic Quadrant (1).

The report evaluated vendors in both the ability to execute and vision categories. According to Gartner, vendors in the Magic Quadrant have their own capabilities to block or filter unwanted email traffic, provide email virus scanning and offer basic email intrusion prevention capabilities. Gartner evaluated vendors according to 7 categories in terms of vision: spam management, management, value-added AV capabilities, research and content, multiple delivery models, outbound content filtering, e-mail encryption. 

"We consider the Gartner Magic Quadrant as a valuable tool for enterprises looking to select the best email security solutions out of the myriad offerings that are available from the hundreds of companies that have entered the market," said Scott Petry, founder and senior vice president of products and engineering of Postini. "We're serving 30,000 businesses today who trust us because of expertise in email security and our scalable and reliable patented managed service model."

The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.