Sophos Virtualizes Secure Web Gateway Protection
Safe and Compliant Browsing Assured With Advanced Web Malware Detection, and URL and Content-Based Filtering in a Virtual Appliance
(firmenpresse) - BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/12/12 -- IT security and data protection company today announced the availability of providing complete web protection, a streamlined management experience and broad deployment flexibility in virtual environments. Available for download via the , the new Virtual Web Appliances can be set up in minutes, easily bringing the company's award-winning hardware security capabilities to businesses of any size.
Virtualization has helped organizations reduce capital and operating costs, while driving greater levels of application availability. It has also yielded benefits in flexibility, agility and control. However, even as virtualization has helped reduce the number of physical servers, the number of virtual servers continues to rise, resulting in increased complexity and server personnel management costs.
With this new release, Sophos reduces the complexity of a virtual environment by integrating its unique managed appliance experience to deliver an industry-first on-premise managed service. Sophos Managed Appliances include remote monitoring and automated maintenance at no additional charge. This approach combines the benefits of virtualization and on-premise control with the cost savings of a managed service, reducing overhead and complexity. The Sophos Virtual Web Appliance also automates the update and upgrade process and provides proactive monitoring and support -- further simplifying network management.
The Sophos Virtual Appliances streamline the provisioning and management processes with pre-configured performance profiles, built-in load balancing and an intuitive management console. Users can manage several virtual appliances within a single console, increasing performance and capacity while reducing management time and complexity.
By integrating web appliance protection with the Sophos solution, the company delivers unmatched protection and management visibility into users' web activity -- wherever they go. Administrators can quickly and easily set policies, report on activity and protect users, even beyond the secure perimeter of the corporate network. This is all possible without the need for costly and complex backhauling or added gateway infrastructure.
Sophos provides industry-leading web protection due to a unique three-stage filter which combines URL reputation filtering, advanced real-time malware scanning with behavioral analysis and content control to guard against the latest threats. Sophos appliances also include advanced capabilities such as HTTPS scanning, dynamic anonymizing proxy blocking and call home detection to cover essential blind-spots.
"With virtualization taking over the modern IT infrastructure, we are excited to have an offer that leverages virtual infrastructures," said Pete Greco, vice president of sales and technology, Productive Corporation. "Customers are asking for it, Sophos delivers it. A new way to deploy an already great product is an easy sell for us."
"Organizations are increasingly looking to squeeze more out of less by further leveraging their investment in virtualization, but simply implementing virtualized versions of the same maintenance-heavy applications only helps to a limited extent," said Chris Kraft, vice president of product management at Sophos. "Our Virtual Web Appliance allows IT departments to not only leverage all the benefits of virtualization, but also those of a managed service, all the while keeping their data on-premise and preserving complete control."
Trials are available free of charge and licensing is simple, based on a per user, per year basis with no additional charges for the number of virtual servers.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning , , web, email, mobile and solutions backed by SophosLabs -- a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at .
Vanessa Apicerno
Burson-Marsteller, for Sophos
(617) 912-5420
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