Benefits & Features
- 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 defense 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 license, and Sophos can
be contacted for one to- one assistance at any time
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.
- Our 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.
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.
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.
SophosLabs – knows the threat better than anyone
Highly skilled analysts in SophosLabs™, our global
network of threat analysis centers, build on our 20
years’ experience to provide all Sophos customers with
proactive rapid protection against known and unknown
threats. Through technology, global visibility of emerging
threats, and integrated threat expertise, SophosLabs
provides the 24/7 research and fast global response
your organization needs to protect it from increasingly
complex threats.
Industry-leading, 24/7 support
Our round-the-clock technical customer support operation
is included as standard in your license and you’ll receive
unlimited access to our highly acclaimed customer support
team. You can contact our engineers for one-to-one support
by email or telephone, or use our web-based support
knowledgebase. Working from support centers around the
world, our experts draw on a wealth of experience and
technology to replicate, analyze, and resolve your problems
fast.
Simple pricing and licensing
One per-user subscription-based license* gives you
not just today’s software but all future updates to
protection, management and product upgrades, as well
as technical support. You can also include our Web Security
and Control, Endpoint Security and Control, and NAC
services all in the same license.
Languages supported
Email appliances
End-user interface and email digest: English, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese,
Simplified Chinese and Swedish Management console: English
SafeGuard MailGateway Encryption Appliance:
English, German
PureMessage for UNIX
End-user interface and email digest: English, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish and Traditional
Chinese Management console: English
PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange
English, Japanese
PureMessage for Lotus Domino
* English
* Sophos PureMessage for Lotus Domino is separately
licensed.
Technology bytes:
Genotype technology
Provides proactive protection from new variants
of virus and spam families, even before specific, signature-based
protection becomes available
Behavioral Genotype Protection
Delivers the benefits of a Host Intrusion Prevention
System (HIPS), guarding against unknown threats by analyzing
behavior before code executes
Sophos SXL
Offers real-time protection against the latest campaigns
through our online database of anti-spam intelligence
Multi-variant anti-spam profiling
Allows effective response to constantly changing
spam campaigns through multiple detection mechanisms
in the Sophos anti-spam engine
Sender Genotype
Provides proactive botnet detection and reputation
filtering, blocking up to 90 percent of spam at the
connection level.
Directory services integration
Integrates easily with Microsoft Active Directory
and other directory services to enable group- and user-based
policy enforcement
Keyword and string inspection
Keeps unwanted content out and confidential content
where it belongs by scanning emails for keywords and
strings such as Social Security and credit card numbers
and triggering customized message actions
True file type recognition
Uncovers attempts to disguise attachments by forging
document types
Multi-server management
Centrally manages software installed across multiple
servers, providing a single, consolidated view of all
email traffic and easy deployment of configuration and
policy modifications
Remote heartbeat monitoring
Constantly checks more than 40 different settings
and conditions, alerting system administrators and Sophos
if corrective action is needed to maintain email security