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Sophos Email Security and Data Protection

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Overview:

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.

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.

Products Comparison:

 

Models: Sophos Email Appliances PureMessage for UNIX PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange PureMessage for Lotus Domino
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 highrisk spam Multiple configurable policies and thresholds Configurable policies for medium- and highrisk 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 at MTA or policy level, and proactively detects botnet senders 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

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.

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

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 Server 2000/2003
  • 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

Documentation:

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

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