Sophos antivirus and antispam for business

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Sophosanti-virus and anti-spam for business

• OARNET
• October 13, 2004

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Introductions

• Don Landers -- Sophos
• Senior Account Executive
• 1-781-973-1249
• Don.landers_at_sophos.com

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Todays Agenda

• Company background
• State of the markets
• Anti-virus
• Anti-spam
• The Sophos solution
• Product overview
• Why Sophos?

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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

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Real support and excellent service
Key
Sophos research labs and technical support
Sophos technical support
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Viruses becoming a spam problem

• Nine of the top ten viruses in June spread via
  email
• It makes sense to block as much spam and as many
  viruses as possible at the email gateway

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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

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Spam a big problem

• 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

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Latest trends

• 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

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Enterprise solutions
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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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Small business solutions
Anti-virus and anti-spam protection for desktops,
file servers and email servers

• Desktop and file serveranti-virus protection

Email server anti-virus and anti-spam protection
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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

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Global presence
Sophos operations Boston, USA Mainz,
Germany Milan, Italy Oxford, UK Paris,
France Singapore Sydney, Australia Vancouver,
Canada Yokohama, Japan
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Summary

• Questions?
• Follow-up