Sophos's anti-virus scanning engine is now available in
Finjan's Vital Security for Web and Vital Security for E-Mail
solutions
Lynnfield, MA and San Jose, CA - Sophos, a world leader in
protecting businesses against viruses and spam and Finjan Software,
the leading provider of proactive secure content management
solutions for global companies, today announced a worldwide
partnership that provides Finjan customers with Sophos's
best-of-breed protection against harmful, internet-borne viruses,
worms and malicious code attacks using Sophos's anti-virus
technology.
Finjan will now integrate Sophos's powerful virus detection
engine capabilities onto its proprietary security platform,
fulfilling its strategy of integration with market-leading content
security solutions for centralized management and ease of use for
IT departments. Sophos's award winning anti-virus technology
provides Finjan customers with a two-pronged defense against
malware by coupling the best in virus defense with Finjan's own
patented proactive behavior inspection engine.
Internet-borne viruses that arrive via e-mail or the web are the
most common methods for infiltrating a company's computer network
and cause significant financial damage. Protecting an
organization's IT infrastructure, confidential data and mission
critical operations has become increasingly challenging to
businesses around the world due to the growing trend of rapid virus
propagation, social engineering and blended threat attacks.
According to a 2004 Meta Group paper, "End-User Advice on Spam and
Viruses," 45% of large enterprises have been economically impacted
by a virus attack in the last 12 months. By combining the proactive
behavior inspection technology of Finjan Software with Sophos's
excellence in virus detection, clients will benefit from a
multi-layered security solution that protects them against new,
unknown internet threats instantly, while simultaneously providing
an efficient defense against widespread malicious code.
"The goal of Finjan's best-of-breed product strategy is to
provide our customers the option to choose from the best market
leading content security vendors to give optimal flexibility and
choice," said Shlomo Touboul, founder and CEO of Finjan Software.
"Integrating market leading solutions onto a single security
platform eliminates the headaches associated with managing multiple
single-point products in a heterogeneous network environment. We
selected Sophos because of its market leadership and its
demonstrated capability to consistently and expeditiously defeat
known worms and viruses."
"The combination of Sophos's reliable virus protection software
with Finjan's behavior-inspection technology will provide customers
with the highest level of security against viruses, worms and
Trojan horses," said Richard Baldry, head of strategic alliances at
Sophos. "We are very pleased to partner with Finjan."
About Finjan
Finjan
Software is the leading provider of proactive content security
solutions for global companies. Exceeding the preliminary level of
defense typically offered by reactive anti-virus software
solutions, Finjan's Vital Security family of products proactively
responds to changing, yet-to-be-created Internet security threats,
blocks unknown attacks, and closes the Window of Vulnerability.
Vital Security(tm) Product Suite is the only complete and
integrated secure content management solution in which individual
best-of-breed security applications work together in concert to
proactively respond to changing security threats today and
tomorrow. Supplementing traditional security methods, Vital
SecurityTM defends enterprises against malicious mobile code using
intelligent behavior analysis and comprehensive policy management.
Vital SecurityTM is designed with high availability and
scalability, for enterprises of all sizes, including those with
over 100,000 users. Finjan is recognized by analyst firm IDC as the
leader in the worldwide malicious mobile code security market.
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.