Key features
Integrate Sophos anti-spam protection into your own industry-standard software, appliances or services using our in-house API, Sophos Anti-Spam Interface. Partners’ solutions may provide email security, email management, or broader gateway capabilities such as web and IM filtering and firewall functionality.
Benefits
- Higher level of detection compared to reputation filtering solutions or other engines that rely heavily on signature-based mechanisms
- Automatically balances a range of spam detection techniques to deliver consistent accuracy, minimizing false positives
- Protects global organizations from spam in multiple language message streams, including those that use double-byte characters
- Global 24/7 detection and protection against blended threats
Third-party recognition
- West Coast Labs Anti-Spam Premium Checkmark Certification
- Consistently ranked at the top of Virus Bulletin VBSpam reviews
- Awarded 10th consecutive Virus Bulletin VBSpam award in September 2011
- 99.9% spam catch rate and no false positive in the new VBSpam comparative from March 2011 in the latest Virus Bulletin VBSpam review
Simplified integration
- Straightforward integration enables technology partners to pass email messages to SASI and obtain a spam/not-spam verdict
The latest anti-spam techniques
- Proactive Genotype technology
- Sender reputation checks (including identification of bots and zombies)
- Call-to-action checks (such as URLs with messages)
- Spam "identities" or checksums
- Image fingerprints
- Header and content analysis
- Complemented by our 24/7 global threat monitoring by SophosLabs
Works alongside IP Reputation Service
- Deploy our IP Reputation Service at the connection level and SASI at the content inspection level for optimum performance