IT security and control firm Sophos has introduced new versions of its Sophos Email Appliances, ES1000 and ES4000, promising to provide intelligent and easy-to-manage security, which blocks malware, potentially unwanted applications and spam from entering the network via the email gateway.
The new versions of Sophos Email Appliances provide a comprehensive range of user- and group-specific policy controls for email and other organizational policy requirements that, once set, can be monitored and enforced by Sophos's unique managed appliance platform.
The new versions also introduce expanded policy-based functionality to address the heightened demands surrounding potential loss of sensitive data, enforcement and compliance with legal and governance requirements, and increasingly more complex policies surrounding acceptable use of email.
In response to a growing demand for simpler security solutions, Sophos Email Appliances automate the monitoring of all functions of the appliances, traffic, and other inline systems to ensure email service is available and operating at peak performance.
"IT administrators' most recent complaints about email security have been administrative burdens and potential loss of confidential data," said Chris Kraft, vice president of product management at Sophos.
"Sophos Email Appliances were designed to specifically address these problems by pre-defining comprehensive policies that alleviate the IT administrator from having to configure and manage these tasks. In the end, our managed appliances should fulfill its promise of empowering the IT administrator to have more time for other business-centric issues."
Administrators can select to either manage their appliances directly or enable Sophos to monitor and handle any situations that could arise through comprehensive remote management capabilities and direct customer contact, if required.
Coupled with the ease-of-installation and performance benefits of a customized hardware appliance, the advanced monitoring and alerting technology delivers unprecedented peace of mind for the administrator.
Supported by SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of threat analysis centres, updates for the Sophos Email Appliances are available every five minutes to ensure the latest protection is always in place.
In addition to SophosLabs' continuous 24/7 protection, Behavioural Genotype Protection allows for superior proactive blocking of new and unknown threats.
Some key benefits of Sophos Email Appliances include:
- Wizard-based policy: The ability to easily configure a comprehensive set of inbound and outbound rules according to an organisations' established Acceptable Use Policies.
- TLS encryption: Prevents eavesdropping and interception of email with built-in TLS encryption (server-to-server) and is integral to data loss prevention capabilities.
- Data leakage prevention: Administrators can also prevent leakage of confidential information via email by creating policies to managing keyword lists, strings and attachment file types.
- "Three clicks to anywhere" Web-based management console: The comprehensive, powerful and effective management console. This dashboard displays the status of the system, including mail flow, software and threat updates, and also offers rapid access to other management functions.
- Message tracking for the helpdesk: Provides a complete view of message movement through logs, queues and quarantine quickly and easily, using a centralised interface and the ability to search against a range of attributes such as sender, recipient, message ID, and date. |
