Key features
Integrate high-performance anti-malware into unified threat management systems, web appliances, routers and other network devices through the power of cloud lookups. Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware provides a direct connection to the very latest threat information. Using our global intelligence network, SophosLabs, we can spot new threats quickly to ensure immediate protection. Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware protects multiple types of traffic with minimal impact on system resources.
Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware features:
- URI blocking to stop the majority of threats
- Checksum detection to prevent malware distributed through email attachments, IM and other download mechanisms (http, ftp, etc.)
- Cloud lookups for real time access to the latest threat intelligence
- Easily updateable scanning logic that minimizes the need for code changes (firmware updates)
Benefits
- High throughput (Cloud look-ups for URIs and checks are not CPU or memory intensive)
- Low memory requirements, as data is hosted in the cloud
- High levels of malware detection (particularly when compared to basic regex/pattern matching solutions)
- Low maintenance overhead for both OEM and end-customers, as the need for firmware updates is reduced
Trusted performance and support
- Benefit from over 25 years of expertise that has earned us market-leading recognition from analysts such as Gartner
System requirements
- 120KB (dynamically linked, 32-bit Intel x86) and 720KB (statically linked, 32-bit Intel x86) flash or disk
- Variable RAM depending on number of simultaneous searches (8MB for 2,000 searches)