Security news7 August 2007
Sophos PureMessage receives West Coast Labs Checkmark for Email Filtering Premium Certification for Email Filtering granted to Sophos PureMessage for UNIX
Sophos PureMessage for UNIX has been awarded West Coast Labs Checkmark for email filtering.
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, today announced that its email security solution, PureMessage for UNIX, has been awarded West Coast Labs Checkmark for Email Filtering, ensuring that attempts to send or receive emails with contents that are in contravention of a standard email usage security policy will fail and that all such attempts will be logged.
According to the July 2007 West Coast Labs Technology Filtering report, which features a detailed technical analysis on the functionality and performance of Sophos's PureMessage for UNIX, engineers awarded Sophos the Premium level Email Filtering Checkmark Certification based on the ability to configure multiple policies that filtered and successfully blocked the various collections of email messages.
West Coast Labs independently tests participating products to pre-published methodologies and against the performance criteria of the Checkmark certification program and carries out additional tests that indicate how the products perform in simulated business environments that reflect real-world situations.
"PureMessage for UNIX offers a vast amount of flexibility to corporations who wish to take control over incoming and outgoing mail. The ability of this solution to adapt to not only the changing nature of the internet, but also to different types of organisation means that this is a serious heavyweight contender for any Linux based mail servers," wrote West Coast Labs in their report.
"A growing number of companies are thinking about how to control data leakage and other outbound policy requirements. This certification gives Sophos an independent stamp of approval that says PureMessage has powerful and intuitive policy capabilities, giving administratiors unprecedented control to secure their gateway," said Carole Theriault, senior security consultant for Sophos. "Passing with flying colours means everyone who had a hand in bringing this product to market can feel proud of their accomplishment, while customers can feel secure in the knowledge that Sophos PureMessage is second to none."
- Read West Coast Labs Technology Filtering report
- Read the executive summary
- Find out more about Sophos PureMessage for UNIX
- Read about other reviews, industry awards and certifications received by Sophos products
The West Coast Labs Checkmark certification for PureMessage for UNIX follows news earlier this month that Sophos Anti-Virus had won its 39th VB100 award from Virus Bulletin magazine.
The VB100 award is given to products found to detect 100% of the in-the-wild viruses, without suffering from a single false positive. In tests published in the August 2007 edition of Virus Bulletin, Sophos was found to have outperformed a number of competing products from other vendors on 64-bit Windows Vista.
All Sophos products use the same technology to protect against viruses, worms, spyware, Trojan horses and other malware, ensuring consistently high detection rates across all operating systems.
About West Coast Labs Checkmark certification
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.
More information about Checkmark certification from West Coast Labs can be found on its website: www.check-mark.com.
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About Sophos
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.
