Sophos Anti-Virus has been awarded West Coast Labs Checkmark for
100% spyware detection.
Independent research and test center West Coast Labs has announced that Sophos Anti-Virus
for Windows XP has been once again awarded the certification
Checkmark for detecting 100% of spyware in their rigorous
tests.
The certification confirms Sophos's expertise in protecting
businesses against the spyware threats and joins existing awards
that have demonstrated the Sophos product suite's expertise in
detecting and disinfecting all known in-the-wild viruses and Trojan
horses.
By passing West Coast Labs' stringent Checkmark spyware
certification test, Sophos has again demonstrated its effectiveness
in protecting business against all kinds of malicious content.
"Organizations are demanding anti-spyware protection that is
purpose-built for business and Sophos's award of the Checkmark
Spyware Certification confirms the excellence of their solution,"
said Chris Thomas, Operations Director at West Coast Labs. "We're
delighted to report that Sophos's anti-virus product detected 100%
of the spyware including password stealers, crackers, financials,
keyloggers, backdoors, downloaders and proxys in West Coast Labs'
test suite, without causing a single false alarm."
The Checkmark system has been developed by West Coast Labs, an
independent research and test center. It provides a reliable means
of authenticating products and certifying those of the highest
quality.
Experts at Sophos have published a white paper explaining how
spyware can be tackled through integrated threat management. The
paper describes how spyware infiltrates and affects organizations,
and how companies can best defend themselves with a consolidated
solution.
Read the white paper now:
Find out more about the differences between spyware and adware, and how Sophos
protects your organization.
Mehr als 100 Millionen Anwender in 150 Ländern verlassen sich auf Sophos als den besten Schutz vor komplexen IT-Bedrohungen und Datenverlust. Sophos bietet dafür Security- and Data-Protection-Lösungen an, die einfach zu verwalten, zu installieren und einzusetzen sind und dabei die branchenweit niedrigste Total Cost of Ownership bieten. Sophos bietet preisgekrönte Verschlüsselungs- und Endpoint-Security-Produkte, darüber hinaus Lösungen für Web- und E-Mail-Sicherheit sowie Network Access Control (NAC). Das Angebot wird von einem weltweiten Netzwerk eigener Analysezentren, den SophosLabs, unterstützt. Mit mehr als 20 Jahren Erfahrung gehört Sophos laut den Top-Analystenhäusern zu den führenden Unternehmen für IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz und hat zahlreiche Branchenauszeichnungen erhalten.
Sophos hat seinen Hauptsitz in Boston, USA, und Oxford, Großbritannien. In Deutschland ist das Unternehmen in Wiesbaden und in Österreich sowie der Schweiz je an einem Standort vertreten. Weitere Informationen unter: www.sophos.de.