www.sophos.com sophos anti-virus and anti-spam for business oarnet october 13, 2004
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www.sophos.com
Sophosanti-virus and anti-spam for business
OARNET
October 13, 2004
Today’s Agenda
Company background
State of the markets Anti-virus
Anti-spam
The Sophos solution Product overview
Why Sophos?
Who is Sophos?
Industry leading support services:
Global virus labs, 24 hours a day
Global technical support network, 24 hours a
day
Represented in over
150 countries
Global network of
technical partners
Real support and excellent service
Sophos research labs and technical support
Key:
Sophos technical support
Viruses becoming a spam problem
Nine of the top ten viruses in June spread via
It makes sense to block as much spam and as
many viruses as possible at the email gateway
The future
More mass-mailing Windows viruses, a la Sobig-
F, Netsky, Bagle
More Backdoor Trojan horses opening the way
for Remote Access Tools (RATs)
More viruses attempting to steal money and
confidential information
More blended threats where viruses combine
payloads and spreading methods
Sophos asked nearly 4,000 customers what they
thought of spam:
80% said the flood of spam makes them less
productive
But 72% admitted they do not have anti-spam
protection
Source: Sophos. 3731 respondents.
Survey conducted Jan-Apr 2004
Spam: a big problem
More spam being sent than ever before
Legislation has failed to make any impact on the
amount of spam being sent
83% of spam uses content obfuscation to bypass
less sophisticated anti-spam filters
New techniques to disguise spam are being
discovered regularly
Latest trends
Enterprise solutions
Desktop, laptop and file server anti-virus
protection
Scanning modes:
On-access
On-demand
Scheduled
Central notification and alerts
Auto-update
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Gateway email filtering software Consolidated protection against viruses, spam and other
email-borne security threats
Subscription software with inclusive 24/7 live support
and automated anti-spam and anti-virus updates
Sophos PureMessage solutions PureMessage for Unix
PureMessage for Windows/Exchange
PureMessage Small Business Edition
PureMessage for Unix:
Offers any combination of anti-virus, anti-spam,
and policy enforcement functionality
Scans SMTP email traffic in real time
End-user spam quarantine interface provides users
with a real-time view and control over quarantine
contents
Administrator and end user configured white and
black lists
Delivers automatic notifications
PureMessage for Windows/Exchange: Anti-virus and anti-spam protection
Threat reduction Quarantine or delete suspicious attachments
Disclaimers for outgoing messages
Scans Microsoft IIS, Exchange 2000 and 2003 email traffic in real time
Manages quarantined emails
End-user spam quarantine interface
Small business solutions
Desktop and file server
anti-virus protection
Email server anti-virus
and anti-spam protection
Anti-virus and anti-spam
protection for desktops, file
servers and email servers
Why Sophos?
Comprehensively protects against viruses and
spam straight “out of the box”
Uses award-winning anti-virus and industry-
leading anti-spam engines
Blends multiple techniques to identify spam
Computes a spam probability rating for each
message – from 0% to 100%
Anti-spam rules are continuously updated by the
Sophos anti-spam labs
Global presence
Sophos operationsBoston, USAMainz, GermanyMilan, ItalyOxford, UKParis, FranceSingaporeSydney, AustraliaVancouver, CanadaYokohama, Japan
Summary
Questions?
Follow-up