Protect your network perimeter from the widest variety of
virus threats.
The scale and complexity of recent virus attacks have highlighted
the importance of a robust, secure messaging platform to protect
your network perimeter. The traditional approach of being able
to identify and block known viruses is no longer enough.
In an era of greater virus attacks which are more complex,
morph more quickly, and spread faster, anti-virus engines strain
to protect customer networks appropriately. With the increased
damage complex viruses cause, the cleanup costs for infected
PCs continues to rise.
To combat this evolving threat, IronPort® offers the most
comprehensive multi-scan, multi-vendor anti-virus solution:
- IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters™ - a critical
first layer of preventive defense against new outbreaks,
detecting and stopping viruses before any other technology.
- Integrated Sophos anti-virus engine - enabling traditional
virus detection methods to ensure protection against even
the most complex virus attacks.
The combination of proprietary IronPort technology and virus
filtering from Sophos provides maximum virus security, without
compromising scalability.
Features:
With the highest performance virus scanning technology in
the industry, Sophos anti-virus technology is a fully integrated
layer of virus protection on the IronPort C-Series™
and IronPort X-Series™ email security appliances.
Multiple Detection Methods: Protection Against the Widest
Variety of Virus Threats
During the scanning process, the Sophos AV engine analyses
each message and file, identifies the type and then applies
the relevant technique to ensure highest throughput and efficacy.
The Sophos AV engine employs multiple detection methods such
as:
Pattern Matching can identify a virus by
a specific code sequence or for code sequences known to be present
within a virus. In doing so, the patterns are created to ensure
that the engine catches not only the original virus but derivatives
within the same virus family.
Emulation technology is included to detect
polymorphic viruses and an online decompressor to scan multi-layer
attachments. The robust engine supports multiple scanning modes
to optimize performance.
Advanced heuristic techniques, based on
behavioral genotype protection, are utilized by the engine to
ensure that variants of viruses are caught with minimal information
available about virus code patterns.
Multiple Options for Virus Handling
Administrators have multiple options to
handle virus infected messages. As viruses evolve, new strains
of attacks try to bypass anti-virus protection by concealing
viruses within password protected files or mal-formed messages.
The IronPort solution detects potentially dangerous messages,
giving the administrator full control over how these messages
are handled by the system.
The fully integrated Virus Quarantine provides
additional options to customers to determine what actions to
take on viral messages along with end-user notification options.
The unparalleled performance of IronPort's
email security appliances protects your email infrastructure
from being overwhelmed by large-scale virus outbreaks and ensures
that your mission critical email will continue to be accepted.
Only Signature-based Gateway Anti-Virus Solution Integrated
With a Preventive Anti-Virus Solution
Prevention and protection are provided by
IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters. During any virus outbreak,
there is invariably a period of time between virus detection
and when the actual anti-virus identity file is deployed. During
this period, administrators can utilize IronPort Virus Outbreak
Filters technology to identify and quarantine viruses based
on known patterns and delete or archive the messages until new
identity files can be updated. This innovative, preventive anti-virus
solution is fully integrated with the Sophos anti-virus engine
and has the ability to rescan messages automatically when there
are new signature updates during an outbreak.
IronPort and Sophos - Better Together IronPort
combines Sophos' anti-virus technology with IronPort Virus Outbreak
Filters - resulting in even better virus prevention and protection,
while maintaining near zero false positive rates.
Highest Efficacy Sophos is widely regarded
within the industry as having the fastest performing and most
accurate virus scanner available. Sophos was awarded the VB
100% award in the April 2007 edition of Virus Bulletin. This
is the 37th time Sophos Anti-Virus has won a VB 100% award,
confirming its position as one of the most powerful and accurate
virus protection products available.
Virus Bulletin tested 16 different anti-virus products for
their detection rates, lack of false alarms, and speed of scanning.
Sophos successfully detected all of the in the wild, macro and
polymorphic viruses (100 percent detection rate) with no false
alarms.
Lower TCO with an Integrated Gateway Solution
With integrated management and deployment within the appliances,
the solution offers ease of management with automatic updates
and "set and forget" policies to address any customer specific
requirements. Additionally, performing virus filtering at the
gateway significantly reduces the resources needed at the groupware
servers and the bandwidth requirements within the network.
Benefits:
IronPort and Sophos - Better Together IronPort
combines Sophos' anti-virus technology with IronPort Virus
Outbreak Filters - resulting in even better virus prevention
and protection, while maintaining near zero false positive rates.
Highest Efficacy Sophos is widely regarded
within the industry as having the fastest performing and most
accurate virus scanner available. Sophos was awarded the VB
100% award in the April 2007 edition of Virus Bulletin. This
is the 37th time Sophos Anti-Virus has won a VB 100% award,
confirming its position as one of the most powerful and accurate
virus protection products available.
Virus Bulletin tested 16 different anti-virus products for
their detection rates, lack of false alarms, and speed of scanning.
Sophos successfully detected all of the in the wild, macro and
polymorphic viruses (100 percent detection rate) with no false
alarms.
Lower TCO with an Integrated Gateway Solution
With integrated management and deployment within the appliances,
the solution offers ease of management with automatic updates
and "set and forget" policies to address any customer specific
requirements. Additionally, performing virus filtering at the
gateway significantly reduces the resources needed at the groupware
servers and the bandwidth requirements within the network.
Flexible and Intuitive Interface for Ease of Management
IronPort email security appliances with Sophos anti-virus
provide multiple layers of defense against potential viruses.
Documentation:
Download the
Sophos Anti-Virus Sheet (PDF).
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