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How Sophos Provides Best Protection

Sophos provides best protection against cyber threats through an approach focused on prevention, proactive protection, performance, and simplicity. It closes security gaps by addressing infection sources, prevents threats from entering networks, and creates secure environments. Sophos' protection is proactive in detecting and stopping zero-day and polymorphic threats. It offers a fast, high-performing single agent that minimizes endpoint impact. Sophos' simple policies, automated protection, and immediate visibility reduce complexity while strengthening security.

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How Sophos Provides Best Protection

Sophos provides best protection against cyber threats through an approach focused on prevention, proactive protection, performance, and simplicity. It closes security gaps by addressing infection sources, prevents threats from entering networks, and creates secure environments. Sophos' protection is proactive in detecting and stopping zero-day and polymorphic threats. It offers a fast, high-performing single agent that minimizes endpoint impact. Sophos' simple policies, automated protection, and immediate visibility reduce complexity while strengthening security.

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How Sophos Provides Best Protection

Agenda
The threat landscape
The problems
The need

Prevention
Proactive
Performance
Simple (Brilliantly so)

Summary

Organizations are still getting infected

Source: Ponemon Institute Security, Mega trends survey 2009

Organizations are still getting infected


Type of breach (% experienced in a year)
2007 2008
Virus

52%

Insider abuse

59%

Unauthorized access

44%

25%

Instant messaging abuse


Bots

50%

21%

29%

25%

21%

20%

$288,618
= Average loss due to security threats per year
Source: CSI/FBI report 2008 of 522 security practitioners

Securing the organization is getting more


difficult

Performan
ce

Proactive

Prevention

Simplicity

Cumbersom
e security
agents

New, rapidly
changing
malware

Increased
web
exposure

Complex
managemen
t systems

I am very concerned to hear that cleanup is usually not available. It should be. Shai, Darren do we have a problem still?

Prevention
NAC

Email
filtering
Device
control

Web filtering

Applicatio
n control
Firewall

Closing the security gaps by addressing the


sources of infection, preventing threats from
getting in, and creating a secure IT environment

Proactive protection

Protection that
detects and stops
zero-day threats

Stopping polymorphing
threats, socially
engineered and
traditional attacks

Proactive protection

The highest proactive score


in the recent VB100 test

Performance
Minimize the impact on your
end users machines with a
fast, single agent
Sophos immediate updates are among
the smallest in the industry order 10KB

The thing I think I notice


the most is how well the
endpoint software runs on
the end user machines...
John Rowe, Network
Administrator,
Taco Bueno Restaurants

Sophos immediate updates are among


the smallest in the industry order 10KB

File type

Archives

Access Lag
0.01
(seconds/MB
)
Source: Virus Bulletin, Oct 09

Binaries/System

Media/Docs

Other

0.11

0.06

0.10

Performance comparison
On-demand scans are also fast

Symantec
Sophos
Trend Micro
Kaspersky
McAfee
Microsoft

Scan Speed
++
+
+
0
0
0

by consolidating into one


solution, we improved the
efficiency of the
workstation
Pramesh Naik, Enterprise Support Mgr
Kilpatrick Stockton

AV-test.org (Sep 08)

Throughput MB/s
Sophos
Symantec
McAfee

Media and
Documents
10.48
9.05
7.40

Archive files
2.30
2.20
2.07
Virus Bulletin (Oct
09)

Simple (Brilliantly so)

Immediat
e visibility

Automated
protection

Simple
policy

Making deployment and policy


setting easier, reducing security
gaps, and saving money
Complexity is the
enemy of security.
Bruce Schneier

Simple (Brilliantly so)


the policy quick links make
accessing specific policy
items fast and easy. ...
InfoWorld Test Center
February 2009

It is nice to know that both the


software, and appliances automatically
do all updating for you, and that you
do not need to do anything manually.
Dave Coe, Independent Security
Specialist Longmont Toyota

I never would have


thought it possible to
deploy three product lines
in one business week
during business hours.
Chris Halverson
Network Administrator
Northern Engraving

ENEX labs for ZDNet Australia November 2009

While it was very close, this year we find we have three to


recommend: Sophos, Kaspersky and Symantec. Which one
you choose will be highly dependent on how your business is
structured...

Summary
Performan
ce

Proactive

The lab was particularly


fond of the way that Sophos
goes beyond the industry's
traditional signatures and
basic heuristics to identify
malware and unwanted files,
code and behaviors.
Information Security
Magazine September 2008

Prevention

Simplicity

Sophos Endpoint Security


and Control is intuitive and
easy to use the power and
accuracy of its engine means
it picks up things our
previous solution did not.
John Howard, IT Server
Manager
WC Bradley Co.

Summary
Performan
ce

Proactive

The one thing I hear most


often is that users dont even
know that its working because
they dont receive an
abundance of unwanted
notifications. And I can attest
to that as well.
Thomas Randolph, IT Director
St. Louis Public Schools

Prevention

Simplicity

An elegant solution,
which does not place
undue burden on the
administrator
Sophos Endpoint
Security and Control
Receives 5 Star Rating
SC Magazine
September 2008

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