Sophos AntiSpam and AntiVirus A UBC Success Story

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Sophos Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus A UBC Success
Story

• Jens Haeusser
• Manager,
• Information Security Office

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The Problem

• 2003 Spam made up 50-70 of all email messages
• Spam number one concern in broad email survey
• Spam has has made my email unuseable
• Multiple virus outbreaks on Campus
• Resnet shut down September 2003
• Over 2000 Campus computers infected by Nimda
  virus
• Weak central tools for anti-spam and anti-virus
• No Campus-wide license for Anti-Virus

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Our Collaborative Approach

• Information Security Office formed November 2003
• Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus project first major
  initiative
• First step consultation with community November -
  January
• Departments, Units, Faculty, Staff and Students
• Issued comprehensive RFP in February
• Re-engaged community to short-list 19 responsed
  to 3 in April
• Community assisted in testing and selecting
  winner in July
• Sophos deployed Campus-wide August 2004

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The Solution

• Sophos PureMessage for email Anti-Virus and
  Anti-Spam
• Deployed on central Mail-Relays
• Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) for Desktop Anti-Virus
• SAV distributed free to all Faculty, Staff and
  Students
• Campus-wide site license, free to all departments
• Technical support available to all UBC IT Staff
• 100,000 Viruses, 15,000,000 Spam detected in
  first 30 days
• 12 million dollars annual productivity savings

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Next Steps

• Continue to add features requested by community
• Allow Departmental mail-servers to use
  mail-relays
• Server Side Filtering on Interchange
• User manageable Spam Quarantine Service
• Distribute greatly improved Sophos Anti-Virus
  product
• Other IT Security Initiatives
• Central Firewalls
• Security Policy
• Identity Management

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Questions and Comments?

• jens.haeusser_at_ubc.ca
• http//www.itsecurity.ubc.ca