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Sophos Anti-Virus
 

Protect your network perimeter from the widest variety of virus threats.

SecureMail's IronPort addresses ever increasing virus threats by offering integrated signature-based virus filtering at the gateway through Sophos™, along with IronPort's own unique non-signature based solution called Virus Outbreak Filters™. Sophos is an industry leader in anti-virus filtering, offering consolidated protection against multiple malware threats such as viruses, worms and Trojans. With the highest performance virus scanning technology in the industry and unique denial of service prevention, Sophos anti-virus technology provides a fully integrated layer of virus protection.

IronPort with Sophos Anti-Virus provides two layers
 of defence against potential viruses.

Features

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:

Sophos' Dynamic Code Analysis™ technology utilizes sophisticated pattern matching techniques and identifies viruses by rapidly analyzing specific code sequences known to be present within a virus. Virus patterns are created to ensure that the engine catches not only the original virus but derivatives within the same virus family.

Advanced emulation technology along with an online decompressor for scanning multi-layer attachments is utilized to detect polymorphic viruses. The robust engine supports multiple scanning modes to optimize performance.

Heuristic techniques are utilized by the engine to ensure that variants of viruses are caught with minimal information available about virus code patterns.

Automatic signature updates ensure that your network is protected at all times. SecureMail's IronPort  automatically downloads the latest versions of virus signatures at regular intervals and scan incoming and outgoing mail with these updated signatures immediately.

The Only Signature-based Gateway Anti-Virus Technology Integrated With a Preventive Solution

Virus Outbreak Prevention and Protection – 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,  IronPort's Virus Outbreak Filters technology can 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 AV engine and has the ability to rescan messages automatically when there are new virus signature updates available during an outbreak. More

Unparalleled performance protects your email infrastructure from being overwhelmed by large-scale virus outbreaks and ensures that your mission critical email will continue to be accepted.

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, ensuring that customer networks are protected against both known and unknown viruses.

Highest Efficacy Sophos consistently ranks at the top in several leading independent third party reviews such as ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, German Association for Technical Inspection (TUV) and is widely regarded within the industry as having the fastest performing and most accurate virus scanner available. Recently Sophos was awarded the VB 100% award in the June 2005 edition of Virus Bulletin. Virus Bulletin tested the Sophos engine for the detection rate, lack of false alarms, and speed of scanning. Sophos successfully detected all of the in-the-wild, macro and polymorphic viruses (100% detection rate) with no false alarms. This is the 28th 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.

Independent third-party reviews confirm Sophos' position as the hightest performance virus scanning technology in the industry.

Lower TCO with an Integrated Gateway Solution With integrated management and deployment within the IronPort appliances, the solution offers ease of management with automatic updates and "set & forget" policies to address any customer specific requirements. Along with that, performing virus filtering at the gateway significantly reduces the resources needed at the groupware servers and the bandwidth requirements within the network.