Cloud-based architecture from Sophos

MUMBAI INDIA:IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, announced the addition of Sophos Live Protection technologies to its Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection offering. This new, cloud based architecture equips businesses with real time threat protection and automatic configuration changes to security and data protection policy settings, the company claims in a press release.

Simplifying the rollout of proactive protection, Sophos Live Protection enables businesses to automatically defend their networks against today’s fast moving threats such as Fake Anti-Virus and targeted malware, while minimising the IT security management overhead.

Three new protection technologies have been built into Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection 9.5 to stop emerging threats from both inside and outside the corporate network.

‘Sophos Live Anti-Virus’ stops previously unseen threats by instantly checking suspicious files against an extensive ‘in-the-cloud’ database of known good and bad reputation data, a response is received within seconds, reducing reliance on updates. 

"IT teams pay security companies to protect them from bad stuff, but many vendors leave customers to decide what to do with suspicious files,” explained Sophos Product Specialist Jon Tait. “This Sophos release reduces all this noise by addressing this problem head-on, suspicious files trigger an instantaneous look-up to the Sophos online database of good and bad data, and the file is allowed or blocked faster than a blink of an eye. Beta results have been seriously impressive, new malware is being picked up way ahead of the game, spelling out greater protection with less complexity for users."