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Jan
iMeter can monitor up to 496 of the following sensors from a single IP address:
- Current (Amps) using our unique intelliAmp® current sensor (pictured above)
- Voltage
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Airflow
- Water Leak
- Security (door contact or motion)
- Smoke
The unique combination of the sensors on offer means that IT and Facilities personnel can analyse the relationships between power usage, airflow and temperature to help assist data centre management decisions relating to cost control and reduction. The design of the Jacarta Go-Probe sensors enables the complete system to be implemented with zero downtime. The intelliAmp® current sensor can be clipped to the outside of 16 and 32 Amp power cables to monitor the True RMS current draw of single phase racks without any need to disrupt the power flowing into those racks.
interSeptor iMeter® can either be integrated into SNMP network management systems or, alternatively, Jacarta’s powerful iMS software can be used to monitor, log and report on iMeter sensor activity. The overall iMeter package offers a no-fuss, non-disruptive way of implementing an effective power monitoring solution that can influence and assist data centre efficiency decisions for years to come.
interSeptor iMeter Key Benefits:
- Modular system for easy implementation and budget-matching
- Zero downtime required for installation
- Quickly and easily compare power usage between data centre racks
- Track power efficiency improvements over time
- Use iMeter on-board logs or iMS software to identify where power savings can be made
- Monitor and assess the relationships between temperature, airflow and power usage to improve data centre efficiency
- Solution ensures that, in the unlikely event of sensor failure, there is no disruption to the power supply into your racks
- Integrated environmental and power monitoring ensures alerts can be received quickly to help prevent data centre catastrophe
- An array of additional features such as virtual sensor integration, modbus, SMS and voice alerts (with optional modem), etc. help to ensure that the iMeter can accommodate a broad variety of power and environmental monitoring requirements
You can read the original article here.
Jan
It features user-based management, reporting and licensing; built-in web security to prevent user access to malicious and infected websites, and new policy-based Web Control features to enforce safe and productive web usage. Sophos Cloud is effortless to deploy and easy to use and manage for IT managers and channel partners, given its simple, intuitive user experience.
A recent Sophos survey of IT managers highlighted the growing challenge of device diversity across their organizations, with a need to support Windows PCs, Macs and mobile devices: 78 percent support or plan to support Macs on their corporate networks, and 41 percent see the number of Macs increasing in their corporate environments. A recent IDC study showed that a quarter of SMBs are using mobile device management (MDM) and Sophos is the number one solution. However, 75 percent still have not adopted MDM and with this new release Sophos has made it simpler than ever for those customers to get control of their mobile devices to secure their future. Clearly organizations need an integrated security strategy to support users’ demands to choose their own device (BYOD), while providing IT managers real-time visibility and access to information to keep organizations safe from advanced threats. Sophos Cloud delivers a simple and effective approach for IT organizations to confidently embrace BYOD and to support and protect the wide range of user devices in their environments.
Based on the same proven technology that protects over 100 million devices worldwide, Sophos Cloud is a smart choice for global organizations. It delivers effective mobile device management to keep users productive and corporate information secure. The new web features enable IT managers to easily set and enforce policies for enhanced security and compliance; user-based policies can be created once and rapidly deployed across multiple groups and platforms, and follow the users and their devices even when they are off the network. Sophos Cloud also adds Active Directory synchronization to simplify deployment and management for users and groups.
“IDC predicts that the continuing SMB productivity push will drive cloud and mobility adoption, in a big way; in the U.S., 1/3 of small businesses and almost 3/4 of mid-sized firms are using the cloud, and the share will continue to grow,” reports Raymond Boggs, research vice president at IDC. “Sophos Cloud can help manage security across Windows, Mac, and mobile devices, which is especially important given the diversity – some might say chaos – of an SMB environment. Its user-based management is well suited to SMBs looking to secure users of corporate devices or their own BYOD equipment. Sophos Cloud will be a useful resource for channel partners to leverage in helping support the resource-limited IT teams of their SMB customers.”
“We’re pleased to deliver this new release of Sophos Cloud, as it’s another positive step in our strategy to use the cloud to create new, innovative solutions to the ever-increasing security challenges faced by small and mid-market businesses today,” said Bill Lucchini, vice president and general manager of Sophos Cloud. “Sophos Cloud is a differentiated offering that enables IT professionals to simplify security management without compromising users’ demands for usability and performance. We continue to address the market’s desire for powerful simple-to-use solutions to combat the evolving threat landscape. Sophos security delivered with cloud simplicity is clearly resonating with our customers and partners.”
Sophos Cloud: Ideal for IT Solutions Providers
Consistent with Sophos’ commitment to its channel partners, Sophos Cloud enables IT solution providers and outsourcers to deliver value to customers. A unified web-based management console, hosted in the cloud by Sophos, enables complete protection for users and devices, and a new partner dashboard gives partners visibility into, and control over, their customers’ subscriptions, devices and policies.
Sophos Cloud is currently available. For more information or for a 30-day trial, visit: www.sophos.com/cloud
Jan
One risk is that attackers will have the advantage over defenders who choose to run Windows XP because attackers will likely have more information about vulnerabilities in Windows XP than defenders. The problem is, of course, that once patches stop being provided for newly-discovered vulnerabilities, any problems that are found for more recent versions may well be backwards-compatible with XP. As details of these issues will be widely publicised, for very good reasons, there’s bound to be plenty of research going on into which ones can be used to penetrate the systems of anyone still clinging on to XP. Indeed, some people have already speculated that the bad guys will soon be stockpiling newly-found bugs until after the patch deadline, building up an arsenal of woes to unleash on those too lazy, poor, or stuck in their ways to upgrade.
Once the April 2014 deadline has passed, the world of Windows XP will be a perpetual zero-day, with no hope of relief from danger. It’s clearly in Microsoft’s interest to spread maximum fear, to squeeze as much revenue as they can out of Windows users who will have to pay to step up to Windows 7 or 8. But their warnings do carry considerable weight. In operating system terms, XP is pretty ancient, having been released in 2001 and reaching the end of its standard back in 2009. When the five-year extended support phase ends the platform will have very nearly reached its teens. It remains remarkably popular though, with the best available stats putting it on anywhere from 13 to 30% of systems browsing the web – well overtaken by Windows 7 nowadays, but still streets ahead of Windows 8. Its stability, simplicity and familiarity will make it hard to dislodge from a huge residual user base.
This has led to some speculation that Microsoft might relent and extend the support period further, but this seems unlikely. As Rains also points out in his blog piece, even with regular patching, the security provisions in XP just don’t cut it any more, leaving its users open to all sorts of dangers they would be immune from out-of-the-box with less creaky platforms.
You can read the original article here.
Jan
A new program, dubbed PIN Skimmer by its University of Cambridge creators, can correctly guess a high proportion of PINs using the device’s camera and microphone. When selecting from a test set of 50 4-digit PINs, PIN Skimmer correctly infers more than 30% of PINs after 2 attempts, and more than 50% of PINs after 5 attempts on android-powered Nexus S and Galaxy S3 phones. When selecting from a set of 200 8-digit PINs, PIN Skimmer correctly infers about 45% of the PINs after 5 attempts and 60% after 10 attempts. The university team discovered that PIN Skimmer could identify PIN codes entered on number-only softpads by using the camera on the device to monitor the user’s eye movements as they enter their code. Also, the microphone could be used to detect “touch events” – the clicking sound made as the user enters their PIN on the touch screen.
The paper, written in order to raise awareness of side-channel attacks on smartphones, took the approach that the device had already been infected with malware that was then attempting to snaffle the PIN. The university team then set out to see how effective an attack could be and, also, how PIN length may affect the likelihood that the code could be correctly guessed. Mimicking a typical piece of malware, stealth was a key feature in the design. The researchers ran image processing algorithms remotely to minimise battery drain, something that could alert the user that an unauthorised program was running.
An API exposed by the Android operating system was used to disable the LED that switches on in some handsets when the camera is in use. Photos and video taken by PIN Skimmer were saved to the phone but the file sizes were limited to 2.5MB to reduce detection. A real piece of malware could likely hide such files from view completely. Likewise, the research team hypothesised that the sending of data back to the remote server could also be hidden from the user.
Additional network charges is another problem connected with transmitting data. Many smartphone users are on tariffs that charge them additional fees should they use more than a pre-determined amount of data within any monthly period. To that end the report suggested that a real-life Trojan would probably report back to its control centre only when it detected a free WiFi connection within range. The researchers discovered that, contrary to what you may have expected, longer PINs were actually easier to crack than shorter ones. This unexpected result was put down to the fact that longer PINs actually gave the program more information to work with which increased its accuracy.
One of the co-authors of the report, Professor Ross Anderson wrote: Our work shows it’s not enough for your electronic wallet software to grab hold of the screen, the accelerometers and the gyro; you’d better lock down the video camera, and the still camera too while you’re at it. (Our attack can use the still camera in burst mode.)
As for mitigating the risks posed by such an attack, Anderson suggested that questions need to be asked as to which resources should remain accessible during PIN entry, though he did note how disabling some functions, i.e. the speakers, could cause extreme problems to the usability of the device: For instance when a call comes in, the user needs to hear the ring tone while unlocking his phone; otherwise he may assume the caller has hung up.
Instead, he suggests that whitelists may be the answer – denying use of all resources during PIN entry, unless explicitly authorised. Another option, according to Anderson, would be a more widespread adoption of biometrics in smartphones but that is not without its own issues.
You can read the original article here.
Jan
The survey was organised by the University of Kent’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security, by a team composed of both computer scientists and psychologists, and conducted using Google’s Consumer Surveys platform. As the authors of the report caution their readers, the survey covered a relatively small number of people – just over 1,500 UK adults. That leaves it open to inaccuracies for all sorts of reasons, including sampling bias due to the kinds of people drawn to responding to online surveys, but the results seem dramatic enough to be more than just an anomaly. Other data picked up by the survey seems fairly predictable. Around two-thirds of us feel at risk from cybercrime, just over 1 in 4 have been the victim of some sort of “cyber-dependent crime” in the last year, with malware (11.9%) and phishing (7.3%) the main culprits. 1 in 10 has been exposed to online bullying, harassment or stalking.
If the rate of malware infections seems a little higher than we normally see in surveys of this nature, that could well be down to the high levels of CryptoLocker and other ransomware included in those figures. 9.7% of people claimed they had been infected by ransomware of some kind, with CryptoLocker specifically named in the survey question and making up around a third of all reported infections.
Survey data always has a problem in that it’s only as accurate as the knowledge (and honesty) of the people being surveyed. Malware, for the most part, aims to avoid revealing its presence to its victims, sometimes going to great lengths to do so. So when you ask someone if they have ever been hit by malware, and their response is a strong and definite “no”, that answer should always be viewed sceptically. How can they possibly know? Proving a negative is not easy in the best of circumstances, and being certain something hasn’t happened simply because you haven’t noticed it happen is particularly difficult when the thing you haven’t noticed is specifically designed to be secretive and stealthy. Have you ever been spied on from a distant rooftop? No? Can you really be sure of that?
Unlike most malware though, CryptoLocker and other ransomware attacks make no secret of their presence, indeed their main intention is to make it very plain to their victims that they have been infected. So it could be that what we’re seeing here is not a change in the total level of malware going around, simply a change in the visibility of it to the general public.
Only a third have firewalls, and perhaps that is no bad thing. Other details emerging from this same survey include less than half of respondents using up-to-date anti-malware, just over a third implementing firewalls, and a little less than that exercising sensible password hygiene. Maybe a little more visibility will finally make the general public start sitting up and paying more attention to the risks of malware and other online threats. At the moment, it seems like we’re still mostly either ignorant or in denial, right up until something nasty infects our machine and nabs our data, or encrypts it and demands a ransom. That so many people pay up is not much of a surprise either. Like other security basics, it looks like proper backing up of sensitive or precious files is a rare thing.
Victims forced to pay up include police departments and law firms, with ransomware threats clearly targeting small businesses where proper security practices such as backups are more likely to be lacking. These shortcomings may have been hidden in the past, but now they are being forced into the spotlight, and the shock may just jolt people into giving the right priority to their security needs.
Here are five “top tips” for keeping safe against malware in general, and cyberblackmailers in particular:
- Keep regular backups of your important files.
- Use an anti-virus, and keep it up to date.
- Keep your operating system and software up to date with patches.
- Review the access control settings on any network shares you have.
- Don’t give administrative privileges to your user accounts.
You can read the original article here. More information about CryptoLocker here.
Jan
SC Magazine’s July 2014 review calls Sophos Mobile Control 4.0 (SMC) a “solid, quality enterprise-capable product,” and notes that SMC is “easy to deploy and manage with a vast set of features.”
This award shouldn’t be too surprising — SMC version 3.5 also received five stars from SC Magazine. And we’ve been recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management.
Here are some other highlights from the SC Magazine review:
1. SMC supports BYOD initiatives with its self-service portal, so users can “handle most of the help desk activities themselves if admins choose this path.”
2. “Configuration, user provisioning and device enrollment took only minutes.”
3. “The dashboard was feature-rich and easy to navigate.”
4. “One of the features of note was the integration of the anti-virus and protection solution well known to Sophos customers.”
5. Support documentation provided “excellent information for each feature of the product” that were “clear and easy to understand.”
6. “Value for money is good.”
Sophos is a Visionary in Enterprise Mobility Management
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites 2014 recognizes Sophos in the Visionary Quadrant. Find out what Gartner has to say about Sophos and SMC in the free Magic Quadrant report.
Learn more about Sophos Mobile Control
SMC 4.0 takes data protection beyond the office door by ensuring persistent mobile encryption on devices. Additional network access control based on device compliance status makes mobile device management, content management and mobile security simple and effective.
Available on premise or as a service, SMC provides a simple and differentiated approach for small and mid-market organizations to manage and secure mobile devices, content and applications. Watch the video for a quick overview of Sophos Mobile Control, or sign up for a free trial to see for yourself why SMC is the best EMM product for businesses of any size.
You can read the original article, here.
Jan
Sophos Complete MSP Security is the first MSP-focused solution to offer complete protection for networks, endpoints, and mobile devices from a single vendor.
Sophos Complete MSP Security makes offering IT security as a service easier and more profitable. MSPs can offer a full range of IT security services that provide instant credibility and proven protection, including centralized management that allows them to easily manage all of their customers’ locations at no extra charge.
With Sophos’ new self-provisioning MSP licensing, this program offers compelling usage-based pricing and pay-as-you-go monthly billing, and it requires no up-front commitments – a business model demanded by today’s MSPs that had gone unmet – until now.
You can read the original article, here.
Jan
We all believe (and hope) that ‘it won’t happen to us’ but how many horror stories of you heard where an unnoticed leak has turned into a flood, a briefly un-manned room has resulted in theft, or a faulty piece of equipment has led to ruined stock, lost data or hardware? SMS Alarm General is an extremely cost-effective way of helping to prevent these initially minor events becoming catastrophic for you or your business.
Up to 2 x Go-Probe sensors and 1 x Temperature sensor can be monitored by the Alarm General and it is also possible to link the Alarm General to alarm panels such as fire, security, generator, UPS, fire suppression, air-conditioning, etc. SMS Alarm General can be used to help protect all types of premises: Offices, data centres, shops, warehouses, industrial units, homes, holiday villas – the list is endless!
How Does SMS Alarm General Work?
The SMS Alarm General solution consists of a quad-band modem, integrated Jacarta configuration and alerting software module, and the capacity to connect up to 2 x Go-Probe sensors and 1 x Temperature sensor. Once a user-supplied SIM card is inserted and the sensors connected, configuration of alarm messages and contact telephone numbers can be carried out by sending text messages to the Alarm General. The Alarm General will reply to acknowledge each of the messages, confirming that the required instruction has been carried out.
Once configured, SMS Alarm General will continually monitor the condition of the sensors and alert the configured mobile phone numbers when an alarm condition is detected. Up to 5 numbers can be alerted. In addition to the alerts, Alarm General can send you a daily status text, and you can remotely check the status of your sensors at any time by sending a text message to the Alarm General.
You can download the brochure here.
Jan
This data can include sensitive material such as the server’s private key, but is not limited to that, any data that is in memory on the server is at risk including sensitive customer data as well. This is not limited to web servers, if you use a SSL based VPN that leverages OpenSSL you may also be at risk. Access to this type of sensitive data creates a serious vulnerability because attackers can use it to decrypt past communications (when Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) is not configured), steal critical data and in the case of a private key compromise, enable the attacker to impersonate the associated server.
Resolution and Recommendations
We strongly recommend anyone using OpenSSL to:
- Verify what version of OpenSSL they are using and upgrade their systems to the appropriate fix from OpenSSL.
- Request a reissue (with new private key) for SSL Certificates that were installed on affected servers, install the new certificate, then request revocation of the old certificate.
- Use GlobalSign’s SSL Configuration Checker tool to test your server for the Heartbleed vulnerability
GlobalSign offers free reissues to its direct customers, so if you are a GlobalSign SSL customer affected by the Heartbleed bug, please see our support center for instructions on reissuing your SSL Certificate.
You can read the original article here.
Jan
information security to the status of the most crucial factor that should be taken into account in the adoption of new technologies in the IT environment. The conference aims to present IT professionals with the landscape of new threats and how those threats will be addressed effectively through the implementation of specific policies and the use of modern technology.
Click here to register for the Infocom Security 2013 event
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Jan
Once these are exceeded interSeptor will provide an alert. For other sensors (security, water, power, smoke and dry contact), interSeptor will provide an alert as soon as the sensor switches to an alarm condition.
There are currently five different optional sensors : smoke, water leak, power, security and dry contact sensors.
The interSeptor water detector uses a specially designed cable to detect the presence of moisture at any point along the length of the cable. The water detection unit will sound an audible alarm upon detection and also sends a signal to the interSeptor to start the alarm process. Want an example? You arrive at work on Monday to discover an inch of water across a critical floor space. Of course you are able to quickly install a leak detection system to protect against future instances of this, but what if a system had been in place already? Could you have saved time and money? Could critical equipment be saved? Could staff have spent more time on more important matters?
The answer to these questions is, of course, YES! There is an easy-to -install, leak detection system with:
- Up to 30m leak detection cable
- Hassle-free installation
- Remote Web Access
- Free technical assistance via phone and email
- 60-day money-back guarantee
- 2-year swap out warranty
Jan
Info-Tech examined ADC vendors that are solving the problems of server downtime due to increased web traffic and preventing malicious attacks against corporate systems. Array Networks’ APV line of application delivery controllers deliver a seamless end-user experience while simultaneously preventing attacks and data leakage.
Array’s feature-rich ADC products, industry-leading price and performance and unmatched reputation for customer service and support make them an unbeatable value to businesses.
Array Networks helps enterprises meet the challenges of delivering applications in the dynamic network environments of modern enterprises. Array has over 5,000 worldwide customers including enterprises, service providers, government and vertical organizations in healthcare, finance, insurance and education. Organizations look to Array to cost-effectively scale the performance, availability and security of applications and data in dynamic network, cloud and mobile environments.
“It’s an honor to be recognized as an Innovator in the ADC market,” said Michael Zhao, President and CEO of Array Networks. “Array is improving enterprise security and traffic management and we will continue to develop application delivery networking solutions that meet customer requirements.
You can read the original article here.
Jan
We want to share a little tip – did you know that we offer an amazing alternative to cheap consumer grade Internet routers?
The difference is, our software is enterprise class, fully maintained and free. Here’s how you can try our Sophos UTM Home Edition and our free Sophos UTM Essential Firewall for businesses.
If you think you need to be truly “unlucky” to be targeted – try putting an unshielded Windows computer or a web server on the Internet and watch it being probed within seconds. This is not a matter of misfortune; it’s a matter of seconds.
Being such a critical piece of equipment you might think firewalls all come as cast iron, industrial strength appliances. But, as has been apparent, this is not the case.
Many times the software is not maintained on these devices. Some are not made to update automatically, or are difficult to upgrade. Or the vendor has simply stopped maintaining the software.
Let us give you some examples security weaknesses we’ve seen recently.
- Admin access: this is the holy grail. Anyone can go in a reconfigure your router.
- UPnP – an autoconfiguring standard to allow devices on your network to open up ports in your firewall
The good news is that the Sophos UTM Essential Firewall (for businesses) and Sophos UTM Home Edition address all the issues I’ve mentioned above.
- We continuously maintain and update the software for it. This means we can make continuous improvements and quickly address any issues.
- We don’t support UPnP so it will never be an issue
- You get remote access so you can access you home network wherever you are without having to open any ports on the firewall
Try our Sophos UTM Home Edition, and our free Sophos UTM Essential Firewall for businesses.
You can choose how you deploy it:
- Use an existing standard PC with at least two network cards
- Install it as a VM in your virtual environment
- Buy a hardware appliance from us
- Or you can geek out completely and even run it in the Amazon EC2 cloud … the possibilities are endless
You can read the original article, here.
Jan
An equally alarming industry statistic, users not running the most recent version of Android (comprising more than 90 percent of active users) are vulnerable to known exploits, resulting in a more than 600 percent increase in Android malware infections.
In order to keep up with and prevent these risks, Sophos has introduced the latest version of its free Android security app, Sophos Mobile Security 3.0, its full-featured mobile securityand anti-virus application.
What’s New in Sophos Mobile Security 3.0
- Application protection: Protects the start of selected applications with a password, meaning you can let others use your phone without risking your corporate data security. You can protect your settings or Google Play app and any other mobile application.
- Faster Scanning: Significantly improves scan speed by leveraging the power of multi- core phones
- Web Protection (now included in free version): Blocks access to malicious or phishing websites, so you can access the Internet worry-free
“If Android malware risks weren’t enough, Android device loss and theft are an enormous issue, especially considering that more than 100 cell phones are lost or stolen every minute just in the US alone,” said Thomas Lippert, senior product manager, mobile, Sophos. “Mobile malware leads to data loss and unexpected cost issues, while actual device loss and theft leads to potentially much worse. Either way, it’s imperative for users to ensure their devices are protected. And we’re providing this protection—for free.”
Sophos Mobile Security is offered for free in Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sophos.smsec. Optionally, Sophos Mobile Security can integrate into the company’s flagship mobile device management and security solution, Sophos Mobile Control, providing full central management and integration into the compliance enforcement engine. For more information about Sophos’ mobile offerings, please visit:http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/mobile.aspx.
Jan
“This certification is a critical step toward the future development of LogPoint. It will enable us to pursue significant opportunities with government authorities, in the security and intelligence sector as well as with major corporations globally,” says Jesper Zerlang, CEO of LogPoint. “We are extremely excited about the partnership with Boeing that will elevate the LogPoint platform to the Tier 1 in the market and place us among the best enterprise SIEM security solutions”
Boeing will assist LogPoint prepare the SIEM platform for the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, with the goal of obtaining Evaluation Assurance Level 3 certification before mid-2014. This certification is often a requirement for cybersecurity contracts in NATO countries and throughout the world. Obtaining it will make LogPoint the only Danish cybersecurity company to meet the standard – and one of few globally.
“We are experiencing a dramatically increasing demand for improved network security as the number of successful network attacks globally are sadly rising. An effective SIEM-solution is one of the cornerstones of efficient enterprise network security, not only to improve security monitoring and early breach detection, but also to answer an increasing demand for regulatory compliance in many countries around the world”, says Jesper Zerlang.
The LogPoint SIEM-platform are currently deployed with more than 250 organizations in Europe, including large- and midsized enterprises in all industry sectors as well as public authorities ranging from municipalities to government authorities. LogPoint is present with offices in the Scandinavian countries as well as Germany and the UK and are currently expanding to a number of other European markets. LogPoint is partner centric and deploy its solution through a network of certified partners, ISP’s and system integrators throughout Europe.
LogPoint is a European, Copenhagen-based IT security company that delivers IT security SIEM solutions for enterprise networks. The LogPoint technology is an advanced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform that provides real-time monitoring and incident management for security-related events from network, security devices, systems and applications as well as log management, analytics and compliance reporting.
You can read the original article here.
Jan
The new version includes the following improvements.
- New wizards for step-by-step installation and uninstallation of one or multiple centralized scanners. The install wizard also supports assigning static IP addresses to the scanners.
- The ability for the centralized scanners to receive product upgrades automatically from Sophos, eliminating the need to manually install new product versions.
- More selective email alerts, so administrators can focus on the most critical information.
- A new command-line tool to generate compliance reports showing which virtual guests are protected by which centralized scanners.
If you are currently using Sophos Antivirus for vShield, you may download the new version from the MySophos download page. If you haven’t yet experienced the speed and convenience of agentless scanning for your VMware environment, download the free 30 day trial today.
You can read the original article here.
Jan
McAfee may be big, but that doesn’t mean better. When you look at independent tests and evaluations, Sophos comes out on top. Get our Endpoint Buyers Guide to see all the research that will help you evaluate the top endpoint protection products.
This buyers guide shows you how we match up against McAfee and other vendors in performance, protection, ease of management and customer support.
Better performance
Your endpoint protection can’t come at the expense of user productivity.
In a recent AV-Comparatives performance test, Sophos Endpoint Protection had the best (lowest) system impact score, meaning our software had the least amount of impact on a computer’s speed in performing tasks like launching programs and files.
As you can see in the chart below, we have the industry’s lowest impact on performance, while McAfee scored at the bottom of the scale. In this comparison, a lower score means better performance.
Sophos gives you protection that won’t slow you down.
Better protection
When you choose Sophos, you’re choosing better protection from malware.
As you can see in Info-Tech’s latest Vendor Landscape: Endpoint Anti-Malware report, Info-Tech placed us far higher and to the right of McAfee, meaning we continue to beat McAfee with better protection against malware. This also proves how our strategy of complete security, our strong market presence, and our reputation as trendsetters in the industry leaves McAfee far behind.
Info-Tech Research Group has ranked us Champions for the last three years, recognizing our superior products based on features, affordability, usability, and architecture. In addition, Info-Tech evaluates vendors for viability, strategy, reach and channel.
Fast on Macs
Here’s what a user from LowEndMac.com has to say about Sophos Endpoint Antivirus:
“With some antivirus suites for Windows you can really feel a difference in computer performance, sucking system resources and some even bring them down to a crawl. How does Sophos compare? I have been running Sophos on my 2009 MacBook running Mavericks for just over a week, and I haven’t noticed any performance drop since it has been installed.”
Read more about this review on our Sophos Blog.
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Give Sophos a try
The best way to see how we perform is to give us a try. It’s easy to take a free trial of our Endpoint Antivirus. You can choose either on-premise or cloud deployment, and start your trial today.
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Jan
Through the partnership, both parties aim to meet the increasing demand for SSL and other digital certificates requirements in the region through a range of dedicated enterprise solutions.
With over 55 percent growth in the SSL market during the last year (source: www.netcraft.com), the requirement for security in the Scandinavian region is at an all-time high. GlobalSign has been working with TrustZone for several years to encourage best practices for website security throughout this territory, issuing over 11,000 SSL Certificates through TrustZone, resulting in a significant acceleration in market growth of over 100 percent (source: www.netcraft.com). The partnership demonstrates both companies’ commitment in working together to enable customers to benefit from industry-leading SSL security solutions and in providing high levels of customer support, delivered directly by TrustZone at the local level.
The two organizations have joined forces to better serve the enterprise market in particular and are introducing GlobalSign’s leading Managed SSL and Enterprise PKI (ePKI) solutions to TrustZone’s customer base, enabling advanced on-demand management of a range of digital certificates. The scalability of both solutions gives large enterprises the ability to streamline workflows, whilst reducing the cost and time resources typically associated with digital certificate management and PKI deployments.
You can read the original article, here.
Jan
This isn’t entirely surprising as the FBI had issued a warning on Christmas Eve to media organizations about a new wave of phishing attacks associated with the infamous SEA. Skype has more than three million followers on Twitter, which indicates that, had the attackers wanted to send out malicious links or other dangerous content, this could have been a whole lot worse.
What I would like to know is why on earth a company social media profile with over three million followers would not be using two-factor authentication. Earlier this year Twitter rolled out an improved two-factor solution seemingly in response to previous attacks by the SEA. WordPress offers two-factor authentication and Facebook has supported two-factor authentication for a couple of years now, all in an attempt to prevent this exact type of attack.
Microsoft, would you care to explain why you apparently are not using it? We believe it is the responsibility of organizations with a large number of followers to do whatever they can to secure their profiles. We suppose this can be a lesson to the rest of us. Take advantage of the safety net of two-factor authentication whenever possible. While it may be less than perfect, so are you.
You can read the original article here.
Jan
“The new Sophos SG Series appliances are the fastest UTM and Next-Gen Firewall devices we’ve ever produced,” said Guenter Junk, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Security Group, Sophos. “They run our latest operating system, version 9.2, and are optimized to get the most out of latest performance innovations from Intel to ensure our customers and partners get an unrivalled performance and protection combination.”
The new SG Series includes models to meet the requirements of small offices to large, distributed enterprises. These 1U appliances are available today in the mid-range 200, 300 and 400 models. They all deliver over 10 Gbit/sec firewall throughput to easily handle the demands of multi-layered protection. The SG Series is the 6th generation of Sophos security gateways built on an Intel® architecture, to enable Sophos customers to quickly benefit from the frequent performance and protection enhancements. They utilize Intel® technologies including high-speed LAN interfaces, high volume Solid State Drives and AES-NI acceleration.
“By using Intel® Architecture, Sophos has been able to use the performance gains we’ve been able to deliver with the 4th Generation Intel Core processors which delivers improved software processing architecture,” said Bob Ghaffari, Director, Communications and Storage Infrastructure Division, Intel. “Sophos has been able to see dramatic performance improvements by unlocking Intel’s core processor capabilities to make fast, intelligent decisions.”
The SG Series run the latest Sophos UTM 9.2 operating system which features over 150 enhancements including new Advanced Threat Protection and SPX Email Encryption functionality. Designed to run on an Intel architecture, version 9.2 can also be deployed on Intel compatible servers as virtual appliances and in the cloud using Amazon Web Services.
Bruce Kneece, Chief Technology Officer at Convergent Information Security Solutions, said, “Our team was heavily involved in the UTM 9.2 beta program. From the outset we liked what we saw – added performance and simplicity across the board. Version 9.2 running on the SG Series hardware is a true winner. It’s easy for us to recommend it to our customers.”
Additional information on all of the features in Sophos SG Series appliances and Sophos network security solutions is available at: www.sophos.com/accelerated.