Sophos Email Appliances
Email encryption, data loss prevention and threat protection in a managed appliance

Overview:

• Automatically encrypt your sensitive emails without impacting your users
• Be up and running with effective DLP policies in minutes
• Keep your inboxes free of spam and threats
• Choose from hardware or virtual appliances
• Manage clustered appliances from a single console
• Set and forget with our managed appliance service
• Never deal with updates or upgrades again
• Get support any time
• Take advantage of our advance replacement warranty if you should need it

Put the money and time you're already spending on anti-spam to an even better use. We give you email encryption, data loss prevention, malware protection and anti-spam in one Email Appliance that's easy to use. And we'll do the remote monitoring to make sure it's always working. You get effective email security that handles your needs whether your traffic is tens, thousands or millions of emails an hour.

What you get:

• Protects sensitive data with automatic email encryption
• Reduces the risk of data loss with pre-packaged DLP definitions
• Blocks known and zero-day threats with our proven antivirus engine
• Stops more than 99% of spam—no complex configuration required
• Offers you email encryption, DLP, anti-malware and anti-spam in one license
• Lets you control multiple appliances through a single console
• Guaranteed protection with our remote monitoring of hardware, software, traffic and updates
• Includes automatic upgrades, 24-hour technical support and a three-year, advance replacement hardware warranty

Features:

 

Secure your data— effectively and simply

Sophos Email Appliances make it simple to roll out email encryption and data loss prevention (DLP). You'll have what you need to comply with data protection laws and keep your sensitive data out of the wrong hands:

DLP and encryption policies Deploying and adjusting data protection policies takes only a few clicks. It's fast with our simple interface.

Pre-defined sensitive data types We take the work out of identifying sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII). You get hundreds of pre-packaged data definitions by industry or geography, which our experts provide and maintain.

Automatic data protection Prevent the accidental or malicious loss of sensitive data. Our Email Appliances automatically scan email and attachments for sensitive data and apply policy without the risk of false positives. The bottom line is you don't need to rely on users to protect your data, we make it easy and automatic.

Built in automatic encryption When users need to email sensitive information, SPX Encryption locks the content in password-protected encrypted PDF.

Stop malware, spam and more

Our email protection blocks all the threats and stops more than 99% of spam at your mail gateway:

Reputation filtering We eliminate most spam even before our threat detection engine scans incoming email. Our Sender Genotype technology stops spam based on the reputation of the sender, whether the unwanted email comes from a known offender or a new source.

Live protection You also get protection from the latest spam campaigns. Live Anti-Spam uses our cloud service to catch spam in real time and keep it out of people's inboxes.

Proactive threat protection We block new threats at the gateway before they reach your mail servrrs. With our Behavioral Genotype Protection, you get the best proactive protection from zero-day threats.

Save time with our remotely monitored appliances

While our Email Appliances keep you secure all the time, you won't spend much time on administration:

Remote monitoring We remotely monitor your appliance's vital signs to check that everything is running as it should. If we see something out of the ordinary, we'll alert you before it becomes a problem.

Automated maintenance You'll free up time because we provide automatic updates and automate most routine maintenance tasks.

24-hour technical support Support from our local experts is standard. And your license also includes all automatic updates and upgrades for new software releases.

Get high availability and easy growth

When you want to cluster more than one Email Appliance, you can do it with just one click:Manage multiple appliances as if they were one

Manage multiple appliances as if they were one Clustering lets you manage many Sophos Email Appliances—hardware, virtual or both—from a single console.

Grow in affordable increments Adding another appliance to your cluster lets you grow easily and affordably.

Hardware or virtual appliances—it doesn't matter. Cluster hardware appliances or virtual appliances in whatever combination best meets your needs.

Web-based management console Our threeclicks- to-anywhere management console gets you to any action you want to perform, fast.

Email Product Comparison:

 

Sophos Email Product Comparison
	Sophos Email Appliances	PureMessage for UNIX	PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange	PureMessage for Lotus Domino
Network location	Gateway	Gateway	Gateway and groupware	Groupware
Organization size	For organizations of all sizes: ES1000 (processes up to 50,000 messages/hour) ES5000 (up to 380,000 messages/hour) ES8000 (up to 550,000 messages/hour) Appliances can be clustered for scalability and multi-site environments.	50–25,000+ end users	50–10,000+ end users	50–10,000+ end users
Customer requirements	Appliance-based protection against spam, malware, and data leakage plus enforcement of custom messaging policies, with minimal administrative overhead End-user spam quarantine functionality More reliable and accessible support services	Complete protection from spam, malware and data loss, plus enforcement of custom messaging policies Extensive user- or group-based policy flexibility Delegated administration End-user spam quarantine functionality	Spam and malware protection in a single or clustered Microsoft Exchange server environment Virus protection for Exchange message stores using standard Microsoft APIs Ability to control email traffic by attachment content, file type, size, email content End-user spam quarantine functionality	Malware and spam protection in a single or replicated Domino server environment Ability to control email traffic by attachment content, file type, size or message content End-user spam quarantine functionality
Ideal customer profile	Organizations looking with limited in-house IT resources dedicated strictly to security Organizations seeking to reduce the amount of time spent on email security	Large or complex organizations with established UNIX skills, diverse email management requirements (group, department, customer) Higher education Government Managed email service providers	Small, medium and large organizations wanting: Anti-virus protection for their Exchange message stores A standard Windows gateway solution for spam, virus and spyware protection, and email content control	Small, medium and large organizations looking for: Anti-virus and anti-spam protection for their Lotus Domino servers Content filtering and disclaimers
Installation	Easy installation in any network – plug and protect	Supports a range of single- and multi-server installation options	Easy installation – InstallShield Wizard Out-of-the-box settings provide immediate protection from malware and spam	Easy installation – InstallShield Wizard Recommended default policies can easily be enabled to provide protection
Supported platforms	Management console Web-based Onboard software Hardened FreeBSD operating system Postfix MTA	Management console Web-based PureMessage software Linux Solaris FreeBSD Virtualization: Linux on VMWare ESX and Sun Solaris 10 containers MTAs Sendmail (8.13.6 inc): 8.11.6 or higher Postfix (2.5.4 inc): 2.0.x and 2.1 or higher Supports Sun Java™ System Messaging Server 6 and SunOne Messaging Server 5.2 on Solaris and SPARC	Management console Windows XP/2003 and above Active Directory (optional) MMC 3 PureMessage services Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 IIS Clustering Exchange 2010: DAGs Exchange 2007: SCC, CCR Exchange 2003 R2: SCC, CCR Exchange 2003 & earlier: SCC	Email server Lotus Domino server R7, R8.0x, and R8.5 (32-bit/64-bit) PureMessage software Windows 2000 Server Windows Server 2003 (32-bit/64-bit) Windows Server 2008 (32-bit/64-bit) *Lotus Domino server R6 is supported by PureMessage for Notes/Domino v3
Management console	Web-based: "three-clicks-to-anywhere" navigation. Designed for management by exception – system notifies admin when attention is required	Web-based GUI and UNIX command line	Windows MMC snap-in Exchange 2007-style layout	Domino-based interface
Database	Not applicable	PostgreSQL 8 (bundled)	SQL Server Express 2005 (bundled) SQL Server	Domino databases
Multi-server capability	Up to 10 appliances can be clustered for scalability and centrally managed in single- or multi-site environments	Highly configurable – synchronized administration with option to distribute functions across multiple servers	Manage and monitor all email servers from one console Supports Exchange clustering Quarantine and reporting data from multiple servers can be stored in a single database	Supports Domino clustering
Quarantine management	Administrator: Powerful message tracking with single-point access to logs and onboard quarantine End user: Personal quarantine accessed via email digest or web interface	Administrator: Consolidated and group-based view of quarantined items across all servers End user: Personal quarantine accessed via email digest or web interface	Administrator: Consolidated view of quarantined items across all Exchange servers End user: Personal quarantine accessed via email digest or web interface. Active Directory single sign-on	Administrator: Consolidated view of quarantined items across all Domino servers End user: Optional devolution of review and release of non-malware and non-spam quarantined files to end users
Allow lists and block lists	Offers both administrator and end-user-defined allow and block lists	Offers both administrator and end-user-defined allow and block lists	Administrator-defined allow and block lists	Administrator-defined allow and block lists
Policy enforcement	Offers an easy-to-use, highly flexible policy wizard for defining custom policies for inbound and outbound email Prioritize, activate, or deactive policy rules quickly and easily Supplies customized policies for attachments and unwanted and malicious content Searches for content within attachments created using common office applications Routing to third-party encryption or archiving systems Adds disclaimers (global, user or group)	Offers a fully configurable, highly flexible policy engine for inbound and outbound email Supplies customized policies for attachments and unwanted and malicious content Searches for content within common office applications Adds disclaimers (global, user or group) Integrates with third-party encryption or archiving systems	Enables customized policy for unwanted and malicious content and attachments Set policies for inbound, outbound and internal email flows Uses Active Directory users and groups within email policy Search for content within common office applications Adds disclaimers	Enables customized policy for unwanted and malicious content and attachments Adds disclaimers
Spam thresholds	Configurable policies for medium- and high- risk spam	Multiple configurable policies and thresholds	Configurable policies for medium- and high- risk spam	Multiple configurable policies and thresholds
Reputation filtering	Sender Genotype blocks email from known bad senders at MTA or policy level, and proactively detects botnet senders	Sender Genotype blocks email from known bad senders and proactively detects botnet senders. Blocks email from known bad senders at MTA or policy level	Blocks email from known bad senders as part of spam analysis	Blocks email from known bad senders as part of spam analysis
Virus policy	Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments	Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments	Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments	Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments
Languages supported	Mail processing: anti-virus and anti-spam, fully internationalized End-user interface: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Swedish Management console: English	Mail processing: anti-virus and anti-spam, fully internationalized End-user interface: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese Management console: English	Mail processing: anti-virus and anti-spam, fully internationalized Admin and end-user interfaces: English and Japanese	Mail processing: fully internationalized Admin and end-user interfaces: English
Customization via Sophos ProServices	No	Yes. Sophos Professional Services provides a range of customizations	No	No
User directory management	Fully synchronized and automated Active Directory integration, tools for manual integration with other LDAP-based directory services	Built-in list management, plus LDAP or Active Directory	Fully synchronized and automated Active Directory integration	Domino directory integration

Features & Capabilities
	Email Appliances (Hardware/Virtual)	PureMessage for UNIX	PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange	PureMessage for Lotus Domino
Deployment
Network Gateway or Mail Server	Network Gateway	Network Gateway	Exchange Server/Cluster	Domino Server/Cluster
Threat protection
Sophos Anti-virus
Zero-day protection
Malicious URL blocking
Spam protection
Sender Genotype Reputation Filtering
Live Anti-spam
Data protection
Integrated policy-based SPX Encryption
Integrated TLS encryption
Content filtering rules
Offensive content blocking
Content aware DLP
SophosLabs managed DLP dictionaries
Management
Real-time dashboard
Policy based reporting
Support
Managed appliance service
24/7/365 Support
Free updates/upgrades
Free updates/upgrades	3 years	N/A	N/A	N/A

Specifications:

 

Sophos Email Appliances
Hardware Profiles	ES100	ES1100	ES5000
Capacity (messages per hour)	95,000	200,000	380,000
Processor	ULV Dual core	Dual core	Quad core
Hard Drive	250 GB SATA	250 GB SATA 1	60 GB SAS (RAID1) Dual hot-swap
Power Supply	200W 100 - 240V	260W 100 - 240V	Dual hot-swap 920W, 100 - 240V
Dimensions	17.2 x 1.7 x 9.8 in. (427 x 43 x 249 mm)	16.8 x 1.7 x 14.0 in (427 x 43 x 356 mm)	17.0 x 1.7 x 25.6 in (432 x 43 x 650 mm)
Weight	10 lbs/4.5 kg	26 lbs/11.8 kg	45 lbs/20.5 kg

Features

• Live Anti-Spam
• Sender Genotype
• Behavioral Genotype Anti-malware
• SPX Encryption (optional)
• DLP Engine with pre-packaged intelligence
• Web-based management console and reporting
• System alerting and notification
• 24/7 Support

Installation
1U rack mounted

Regulatory/Safety Certification
UL, CE, FCC, VCCI, C-Tick, TÜV-GS, SABS, RoHS, WEEE

Hardware Warranty
Up to 3-year advance replacement (software license must be in effect)

Languages Supported
End-user interface and email digest: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Swedish Management console: English

Documentation:

Download the Sophos Email Appliances Data Sheet (PDF).

Download the Sophos Email Product Comparison (PDF).

Download the Sophos Email Security and Data Protection Data Sheet (PDF).

Download the Sophos Virtual Email Appliances Data Sheet (PDF).