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Get the Protection You Need with Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection 9.0

Sophos Introduces a New Approach to Data Loss Prevention within Endpoint Security and Data Protection 9
 
Designed to overcome the predominant objections to implementing DLP – complexity, cost and manageability IT security and data protection vendor Sophos has fully integrated data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities into the new release of Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection, version 9. This now gives businesses visibility and control over sensitive data without requiring the purchase of other software.

Within Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection 9, Sophos is uniquely delivering to customers a range of data protection functionality – consisting of full-disk encryption, device control, application control, and now DLP – all managed from a single, simplified dashboard.
 
Sophos is ‘Changing the Game’ with DLP: 

  • Eliminating the need for an additional endpoint agent given that Sophos has developed its own content-aware DLP technology that leverages the existing content scanning engine to monitor sensitive data.
  • Simplifying and automating data control policy creation and management, which eliminates the need for costly professional services engagements for implementation or additional IT resources for day-to-day management.
  • Focusing on empowering IT teams to involve their end users in managing the appropriate use of sensitive data, which ultimately improves end-user productivity. Sophos is making DLP accessible to businesses unable to expand their budgets or IT teams any further. The latest upgrade also appeals to those enterprise customers who have evaluated, but ultimately rejected standalone DLP products based on their level of complexity.

 


In addition to integrated data loss prevention, Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection 9 includes several new features and functionality aimed at further simplifying how customers manage their endpoints such as: 

  • Reporting – Our new reporting wizard enables administrators to easily create and customize reports that can be scheduled and emailed to selected recipients. Sophos also delivers new compliance and user-based reports.
  • New application control features – Sophos has added the ability to whitelist/blacklist applications that can adversely impact network and user productivity, such as VoIP, IM, P2P.
  • New device control capabilities – Customers can now block/allow removable storage including USB sticks, music players, external hard disks, CD/DVD drives and wireless connection technologies (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Infrared). Policies based upon groups can be created centrally and device block events are reported instantly via the Enterprise Console dashboard.
  • Simplified cross-platform security – MAC 10.6 64-bit is the latest platform that Sophos now supports.
  • Enhancements to centralized management – Sophos customers benefit from greater role-based administration capabilities including three default role levels (administrator, help desk and report only) to give those responsible for management greater control over policies and actions.