Sophos Virtual Web Appliance

The Sophos company announced in January, 2012 availability of a new product under the name Sophos Virtual Web Appliances which guarantees safe work of staff of the organization on the global area network and provides reliable protection against the majority of widespread threats. The new solution focused on the enterprises of any sizes can be prepared for work of management in a few minutes and provides ample opportunities of deployment in virtual environments.

Sophos Virtual Web Appliance is the virtual device which practically does not need administration and does not require purchase of the additional computer for the installation. Thanks to close integration of the virtual gateway with the system of protection of endpoints Sophos Endpoint, IT specialists will be able to control web activity of users irrespective of their current location, quickly and without effort to set security policies, to receive exhaustive reports and to provide protection even those employees who are outside the protected perimeter of corporate network.

The unique three-level protection created based on the advanced developments of Sophos and combining means of reputation filtering of the URL addresses, mechanisms of detection of the malware in real time and also technology of content management is offered to attention of the client organizations. Users also should estimate a number of advanced functions, including scanning of HTTPS connections, dynamic blocking of the anonymizing proxy servers.

The control of the virtual device Sophos can be automated due to use of previously configured profiles of performance, the built-in mechanisms of load distribution and intuitive administrative tools. IT specialists will be able to control operation of several virtual devices from the single console.

Separate mentioning is deserved by the simplified diagram of licensing of a product and availability of free fact-finding versions.