Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV)Sophos Plc.
With the ever-increasing diversity, speed, and complexity of systems, systems divisions are faced with having to protect IT environments from malicious security threats that are causing all sorts of problems.
The enterprise solutions offered by Sophos can implement security measures against the ever-increasing number of complex and fast-spreading threats at all entry points, even on environments with diverse operating systems. Their solutions not only are easy to manage, including automatic updates, but they also provide total backup through 24-hour, 365-day-a-year technical support.
Sophos Anti-Virus delivers the highest level of antivirus protection for servers/clients and mobile PCs running a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, UNIX, and NetWare.
Functional Overview
- Protection for every entry point from security threats at all points on a cross-platform environment
- Powerful but easy-to-use tools to simplify management, surveillance, updating, and reporting.
- Industry-leading 24-hour, 365-day-a-year technical support.
- SophosLabs for 24-hour, 365-day-a-year analysis of the latest security threats
- Proactive detection
- Decision Caching
Proactive Detection
Sophos Anti-Virus uses Genotype technology to detect entire families of viruses, which enables it to spot new subspecies before a specific virus definition file for them has been prepared.
Decision Caching
Sophos Anti-Virus employs Decision Caching technology to intercept and scan files each time they are accessed on a computer. Files are only rescanned when they have been modified.
Sophos Update Manager
Sophos Update Manager interoperates closely with Enterprise Console to apply the latest security measures to the entire network. It automatically updates Sophos Anti-Virus on networked client/server machines as well as on mobile PCs, keeping them constantly up to date. Update Manager supports over 17 different operating systems.
- Automatic updates
- Multiplatform support
- Complete protection, even for remote users
- Automatic reporting
- Centralized management
- 24-hour, 365-day-a-year technical support
- 24-hour, 365-day-a-year virus/spam research lab
- SophosLabs, which are spreading around the world, analyses and quickly responds to constantly surfacing and morphing security threats day and night.
Sophos Enterprise Console
Sophos Enterprise Console provides powerful and scalable policy-based Sophos Anti-Virus management functionality to client/server machines. Centralized management on Enterprise Console delivers the highest level of security measures against viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and malicious spyware in an easy-to-operate manner, requiring minimal admin work.
- Flexible management of the entire network
- Enforcement of policy-based management
- Status monitoring
- Integrated report tool
- 24-hour, 365-day-a-year technical support
- 24-hour, 365-day-a-year virus/spam research lab
- SophosLabs, which are spreading around the world, analyses and quickly responds to constantly surfacing and morphing security threats day and night.
Sophos Anti-Virus System Requirements
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| Windows |
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| Macintosh | Mac OS X 10.4 or later |
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| UNIX |
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| NetWare |
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| OpenVMS |
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| Macintosh | Mac OS X 10.4 or later |
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※Support for Windows 2000 SP3 and later ends July 31, 2012. ※Support for HP-UX 11iV1/11iV2 (HP-PA) and later ends December 31, 2013. |
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