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.
Ease of Management and Usability
- Administrators have
multiple options to handle virus infected messages thereby
allowing customers to tailor their anti-virus policies to suit their
network requirements. The IronPort solution detects potentially
dangerous messages, giving the administrator full control over how
these messages are handled by the system.
- Automatic signature
updates ensure that your network is protected at all times.
IronPort email security appliances automatically download 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, administrators can utilize IronPort's
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 AV engine and
has the ability to rescan messages automatically when there are new
virus signature updates available during an outbreak.
More
- Unparalleled performance
of the IronPort C-Series appliance 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.
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