Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus protection for businesses,
has announced that its virus detection engine will be offered as a
plug-in to Cobion's leading email security product, OrangeBox Mail
2.0.
Cobion OrangeBox Mail 2.0 is an all-in-one email security
product, protecting all incoming and outgoing email traffic and
filtering spam.
Integration with Sophos's virus detection technology bolsters
OrangeBox Mail's anti-virus defences, allowing users to benefit
from Sophos's award-winning anti-virus technology.
Sophos's virus detection engine integrates seamlessly with
OrangeBox Mail 2.0, checking all incoming, outgoing and internal
email for viruses before they are forwarded to the user's mailbox.
Files containing viruses are refused and quarantined without ever
being run. Detected spam is diverted into a separate spam folder,
which can be automatically deleted after a defined time period.
Based on advanced technology, OrangeBox Mail 2.0 reduces virus
infections, simplifies and automates updating, and eases
administration.
"The unique characteristics of the Sophos virus detection engine
successfully add to the functionality of our product and allow us
to provide our customers with the highest possible level of
protection against viruses", said René Seeber, Chief Technology
Officer at Cobion. "Another major factor in our decision to use the
product was Sophos's reputation for first-rate customer
support."
"Today, email is one of the most prolific methods for spreading
viruses. The corporate sector is hit especially hard by viruses,
annually suffering significant losses that include more than just
material damage," noted Richard Baldry, head of strategic alliances
at Sophos. "For this reason, full-scale security for all
IT-infrastructure elements is crucial for businesses to function
reliably. Working with Cobion means that we can contribute to the
high level of virus protection received by OrangeBox users."
About Cobion
Founded in 1997, Cobion's mission is to keep inappropriate,
illegal, or confidential information from entering or leaving
organizations through the web and email. Cobion develops the
OrangeBox Web (web filter), OrangeBox Mail (email and spam filter)
and OrangeBox LAN (intranet filter) security products and
distributes to customers worldwide to facilitate more productive
Internet usage, reduced liability, and intellectual property
protection. Cobion enables Internet Service Providers to provide
content filtering to home and business subscribers. Manufacturers
of firewalls, web caches, proxies, routers, and other gateways
integrate Cobion's web filter and/or anti-spam technology with
their software or hardware products. Cobion's filtering database
of over 19 million pre-categorized URLs - the largest and most
accurate in the world-is available as a web service as well as for
download to local servers. Cobion is headquartered in the UK,
Germany and Boston, USA. Please visit Cobion`s website at www.cobion.com.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.