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Sophos Email Security and Data Protection


 
Stop spam, phishing, malware and data loss

Sophos Email Security and Data Protection proactively blocks inbound and outbound threats with unrivaled effectiveness and simplicity while protecting confidential and sensitive information, delivering high-capacity, high-availability gateway and groupware security and data protection. One license provides end-to-end threat and data protection with hands-off managed appliances and easy-to-use software.

Sophos Email Security and Data Protection enables complete security and data protection across the entire email infrastructure – from the gateway to the workgroup server – eliminating known and unknown threats including spam, phishing and malware, and preventing information leakage and compliance violations. It enables safe, productive internal and external email communication with minimal administrative and end-user effort.

Complete security and data protection for your email infrastructure

Stopping unwanted and malicious email from getting into your inboxes while preventing confidential information leaking out is simple with Email Security and Data Protection. One licence provides end-to-end security across the entire email infrastructure, with hands-off managed appliances and easy-to-use software. Sophos Email Security and Data Protection delivers complete protection from the gateway through to the Exchange, Domino or SMTP servers, with lower total cost of ownership.

  • Sophos' managed appliances and software solutions stop inbound threats, including spam, phishing attacks, spyware and malware, at the gateway quickly and effectively.
  • Powerful encryption capabilities along with content and attachment controls reduce the risk of information leakage.
  • Configurable policies give you the control you need to enforce acceptable email use and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Faster, better protection

SophosLabs’ malware, spam, application and web expertise ensures you get the fastest and best protection against blended threats. Behavioral Genotype® Protection and rapid signature updates combine to stop new and unknown spam and malware.

Key benefits

  • Protects the entire email infrastructure, from gateway to workgroup
  • Blocks spam, phishing, malware and unwanted applications
  • Provides proactive, zero-day protection using a range of defence technologies
  • Incorporates powerful encryption and content filtering and monitoring to prevent leakage of confidential or sensitive information via email
  • Receives and deploys the smallest, fastest automatic updates as frequently as every five minutes
  • Provides comprehensive real-time anti-spam protection
  • Is available in both hardware and software formats
  • Integrates seamlessly with Active Directory and other LDAP systems
  • Features remote monitoring of hardware and software performance on all appliances with on-demand remote assistance
  • Includes powerful reporting capabilities for better email system intelligence
  • Includes 24x7x365 support, updates and upgrades for the duration of the licence, and Sophos can be contacted for one-to-one assistance at any time

Proactive protection against spam, malware, phishing and other email-borne threats

  • Sender Genotype protects against known and unknown spam sources, effectively eliminating up to 90 percent of spam before scanning.
  • Genotype® detection technology proactively blocks families of malware and spam campaigns.
  • Behavioral Genotype® Protection (HIPS) provides unique built-in intrusion prevention technology for the gateway. It detects new threats before code even begins to execute, proactively protecting against zero-day malware.
  • A range of anti-spam techniques, including obfuscation detection, URL tracking, heuristics, and content fingerprinting, eliminates more than 99 percent of spam.
  • A comprehensive real-time system protects against the latest spam campaigns with Sophos SXL technology.
Practical, effective data leakage prevention

Powerful tools in all Sophos Email Security and Data Protection solutions help guard against accidental or deliberate leakage of confidential information via email.

  • Internal and outbound message subjects, bodies and attachments are scanned for keywords, customised strings and file types.
  • You can create custom disclaimers for outbound email from different groups or users.
  • Flexible email encryption options including our full-featured stand-alone SafeGuard MailGateway software appliance, which ensures the full confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of your email content.
  • Patent-pending SPX Encryption (available in our Email and Encryption appliance products) enables encrypted messaging with organizations or users that lack an encryption infrastructure, by leveraging pervasive PDF technology offering the best user experience possible.
  • Integrated TLS encryption as well as interoperability with third party encryption solutions further extends the range of encryption options available for securing your message traffic.
Solutions that fit the way you work

There is a Sophos Email Security and Data Protection solution for every email infrastructure, from the most complicated, high-volume installation to the small business with only a few mailboxes. Covering a range of platforms and all points of the email infrastructure, our solutions combine anti-malware and anti-spam protection, and let you enforce acceptable use of internal and outbound email using powerful policy capabilities.

Software components

Sophos anti-spam engine
A range of techniques to detect new and emerging spam campaigns, including Sender Genotype, checksums, heuristics, URL detection, and image and attachment fingerprinting.

Sophos anti-malware engine
A single engine that detects and blocks all types of malware including spyware, Trojans, worms, suspicious files and unwanted applications in a single scan.

Sophos management consoles
Fully integrated consoles using either web interface or Microsoft Management Console, with highly intuitive navigation and Active Directory integration that reduces the time spent managing the solution.

Hardware solutions: gateway

Sophos Email Appliances
Designed for organizations seeking to reduce the time and effort spent on managing the email gateway, Sophos Email Appliances are hardened, high-performance solutions that deliver complete protection with less effort. They are the industry’s first managed appliance, eliminating or reducing much of the administrative burden and providing unrivalled confidence and peace of mind. The appliances are remotely monitored for connection to Sophos to ensure constant up-to-the-minute protection and availability.

There are three models: the ES1000 (capacity of up to 50,000 messages/hour); the ES5000 (up to 380,000 messages/hour); and the ES8000 (up to 550,000 messages/hour).

Sophos SafeGuard MailGateway
Sophos SafeGuard MailGateway is a powerful, flexible, stand-alone email encryption software appliance that easily integrates with other Sophos email products or any SMTP email infrastructure. It provides a full-featured, high-performance, scalable, software appliance for the most demanding environments.

Software solutions: gateway and groupware

PureMessage for UNIX
A highly scalable, highly configurable software-based gateway solution, PureMessage for UNIX is ideally suited to large organizations, government, higher education establishments, and managed service providers. Its flexible deployment and policy capabilities adapt to a wide range of specific email management requirements. It delivers protection and policy enforcement with minimal administrative burden.

PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange
PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange is a comprehensive software solution for Windows SMTP gateways and Microsoft Exchange groupware installations. Fully integrated with Active Directory, its powerful policy features enable content rules to be quickly set up and applied to inbound, outbound, and internal mail. It is highly scalable, supports all common Exchange cluster models, and enables multiple server installations to be managed and monitored from a single management console.

PureMessage for Lotus Domino
PureMessage for Lotus Domino provides anti-malware and anti-spam protection for inbound, outbound and internal email travelling through Domino databases and mailboxes. Policy enforcement of content rules look for keywords, sensitive information and true file types. Configurable disclaimers can be added to outbound messages and a Notes-based console makes centralized management and configuration easy and straightforward.

Platforms supported

Sophos Email Appliances
All operating systems – the built-in, hardened operating system means they can be installed at the perimeter of any network.

PureMessage for UNIX
» Linux
» FreeBSD
» Solaris

PureMessage for Exchange

Console and Services
» Windows® 2000/2003 (32-/64-bit)
» Windows Small Business Server2000/2003
» Windows Server 2008 (32-/64-bit)

Console only
» Windows XP Professional (32-/64-bit)
» Windows Vista (32-/64-bit) Microsoft Exchange versions
» Exchange 2000/2003/2007

Microsoft SQL versions
» SQL 2000/2005

PureMessage for Lotus Domino
» Windows 2000 Server
» Windows Server 2003

Email server
» Domino server R7 or R8


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