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Overview:

Our purpose-built secure email gateway is an all-in-one solution for email encryption, DLP, anti-spam and threat protection. It provides advanced protection from today’s sophisticated phishing attacks and gives you full control over data leaving your organization via email.

• Advanced multi-layer spam detection
• Detect the latest phishing scams
• Be up and running in just 10 minutes
• Easily create DLP policies
• Utilize hundreds of built- in sensitive data types
• Unique SPX Encryption is easy and transparent
• Deploy hardware or VMware-Ready appliances

Quick and easy data protection compliance

Our wizard-based DLP rules and policy-based encryption makes email data protection simple-preventing costly>HardwareProcessorULV Dual coreDual coreQuad coreHard drive250 GB SATA250 GB SATA2 hot-swap 160 GB SAS (RAID 1)Power supply200W 100-240V AC260W 100-240V AC2 hot-swap 920W 100-240V ACMounting1U rack-mountable1U rack-mountable1U rack-mountableDimensions17.2 x 1.7 x 9.8 in (427 x 43 x 249 mm)16.8 x 1.7 x 14.0 in (427 x 43 x 356 mm)17.0 x 1.7 x 25.6 in (432 x 43 x 650 mm)Weight10 lbs/4.5 kg26 lbs/11.8 kg45 lbs/20.5 kgRegulatory/safety certificationsUL 60950, CE, FCC PART 15, VCCI, C-TICK, TUV-GS, SABS, RoHS, WEEESupportUp to 3-year advance-replacement hardware warranty (subject to valid software licensing)
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Additional hardware information

• Installation: 1U rack mount
• Regulatory/safety certification: UL, CE, FCC, VCCI, C-Tick, TUV-GS, SABS, RoHS, WEEE
• Hardware warranty: Up to 3-year advance replacement (subject to valid software licensing)

Virtual Appliance

• VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 or 4.x or ESXi 5.x
• VMware Workstation 6.5 or 7.x

UTM Appliances

Hardware Appliance Models

* Assumes a conservative 85% of mail traffic is spam. For actual non-spam related email, assume 15% of these numbers.

Sophos UTM Certificates

• Westcoast Labs Checkmark Platinum Product Award
• ISC Magazine
• InfoTech Research Group Vendor Landscape Award Champion

Virtual Appliance

Sophos UTM virtual appliances are based on the software equivalent. Sophos UTM is the first unified threat management product to be certified as VMware Ready and Citrix Ready. It also runs in Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM virtual environments.

The virtual appliance can be downloaded from Sophos servers and burned independently on CD. A step-by-step deployment of each security component enables a secure migration path into a completely virtualized environment.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• 1.5+ GHz processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 20 GB hard disk
• Bootable CD-ROM
• 2 or more network cards
• 1 GB RAM
• 40 GB IDE or SCSI hard disk drive
  • 3 PCI-NICs (Internet, Local Net, Demilitarized Zone)

Software Appliance

The Sophos UTM software appliance integrates all security applications with a hardened OS. These are bundled within a self-booting software image for easy deployment on intel-compatible hardware of your choice.

Performance results depend on the selected hardware. Best results are achieved when using hardware specifications at or beyond Intel Dual/Quad-Core CPUs >2GHz, 2GB RAM.

How to Buy:

Two simple steps will get you complete email protection that fits your business:

• Choose Dedicated or Unified
  Choose a dedicated Sophos Email Appliance or Secure Email Gateway protection in our UTM.
• Choose How to Deploy
  Hardware, software, virtual or cloud-based application

You can read more about these steps below. And if you need help deciding what’s right for you, simply contact us or find a Sophos partner. We’ll both be happy to help.

Choose Dedicated or Unified

We offer two Secure Email Gateway product lines to best fit your needs.

• Dedicated Secure Email Appliances

  We offer a full line Sophos Email Appliances that will appeal to the IT Security Manager who wants a purpose-built appliance for message security with streamlined workflow and policy tools that makes administration easy.

  You can choose to buy a Sophos Email Appliance and license Sophos Email Protection alone or as part of a Sophos Security Suite. Both Sophos Enduer Data Suite or Sophos Complete Security Suite include Sophos Email Protection (and you’ll get Endpoint, Mobile, Web and Encryption too).

• UTM Secure Email Gateway

  We also offer a powerful Secure Email Gateway integrated into our UTM appliances that will appeal to the IT Manager that’s interested in consolidating network security capabilities and managing them with a single console.

  When buying a UTM appliance you get the flexibility to license our protection modules individually. Or, you can choose one of our pre-packaged licenses. For secure email gateway protection, you’ll need to license UTM Email Protection. You can buy this module alone, in combination with other UTM modules, or get it as part of the FullGuard license.

Choose Your License

We give you the flexibility to license our protection modules individually. Or, you can choose one of our pre-packaged licenses.

For secure email gateway protection, you’ll need to license UTM Email Protection. You can buy this module alone, in combination with other UTM modules or get it as part of the FullGuard license.

Choose How to Deploy

Choose the right appliance for your environment-is it hardware, software, virtual or even cloud-based?

• Hardware
  A full range of hardware models are available in both our dedicated and UTM appliance lines that offer full secure email gateway capabilities to fit any business.
• Virtual
  Dedicated Sophos Email Appliances are offered as a scalable VMware virtual appliance and UTM’s are certified for use on VMware and Citrix, and also run on Hyper-V and KVM.
• Software
  This Sophos UTM option comes as an image you can install on your Intel-based server hardware of choice.
• Cloud-based appliances
  Using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), you can run your UTM in the cloud. Or, you can use the Amazon VPC connector on the UTM at your office for secure and robust access to your Amazon-hosted resources.

Documentation:

Sophos Es1100 Manual

Download the Sophos Email Appliances Data Sheet (PDF).

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Pricing Notes:

• All Prices are Inclusive of GST
• Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.

The CRN Test Center dove into the Sophos ES1100, the entry-level unit in the company's series of 1U enterprise data protection appliances that block e-mail-borne spam, viruses and other malware. With its easy setup, Sophos impressed us from the start; a four-page setup guide simplifies the job for nontechnical staff, and installation instructions include cabling directions, defaultIP addresses and simplified rail illustrations for multiple rack types.

Like most such appliances, the ES1100 works by inspecting all of a company's incoming and outgoing e-mail messages, filtering those with cargo known or suspected to be malicious. Setup time can be relatively quick, with most of the time spent entering customer server data and telling the customer's servers about the ES, which will be known to on-site systems as a mail relay.The rated processing capacity of the dual-core ES1100 is 200,000 messages per hour, which is well above the needs of most small businesses.

A 250-GB internal SATA drive stores flagged e-mail until disposition and allows the unit to optionally serve as a message repository for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other government regulations. Higher-end units in the series incorporate quad-core processors and hot-swap drives and power supplies. The sturdy ES1100 has a single, 260W fixed power supply.

Some of the setup for the ES1100 can be done before arriving on-site, including mounting of fixed chassis rails and entering any known customer settings. Out of the box, a setup wizard is accessed through any browser via an auto-sensing Ethernet configuration port using addresses in the setup guide. Embedded software is slick and well developed, with a concise, intuitive user interface that is clean and simple. Everything runs atop a 'hardened' version of FreeBSD.

Once the device is set up and working, the reseller may never need to return; monitoring, malware disposition and other administrative and maintenance chores not offloaded to the customer can be taken care of remotely. For problems too severe for your staff, Sophos can tunnel through even the most iron-clad of firewalls using SSH tunneling software built into the device. Context-sensitive help is extremely well written and concise, offering useful guidance in a new browser window for any task, along with glossary terms and a link to the parent topic. At the bottom of the help system's tree view is a link to the full help file in PDF format.

Sophos Es1100 Hardware Specs

Sophos further differentiates its products with the speed of reaction to new malware threats.

'As soon as we identify a campaign and do a realtime look-up, it's deployed and available to everyone,' said Scott Cressman, technical product manager at Sophos, Burlington, Mass. Other malware detectors take a less active approach, he said. 'Their process is to identify a campaign, build in protection, bundle it as a data update and put it in their repositories so people can download it. Our data updates come down frequently and automatically.'

The Sophos ES1100 also can be easily configured to scan outgoing messages for sensitive data such as credit card information and Social Security numbers. Messages found with this personal information can be stopped, flagged or automatically AES-encrypted, any of which can trigger sender, recipient and administrator messages accordingly. For customers using or requesting Postini or other cloud-based malware detectors, such services work on outgoing mail only after it has left the building.

'Keeping it on-premise is better for data protection because your data isn't leaving the premises before getting stopped, and the jury is still out on how secure these cloud providers are,' Cressman said.

Sophos Es1100 Factory Reset

Sophos lists for $3,295 plus $37.50 per user per year (minimum 100 users) with e-mail security and data protection. Multiyear discounts are available. Cressman told the Test Center that Sophos is currently developing 'some small business appliances that combine software and hardware for a far lower price.' He declined to provide further details.

Sophos Es1100 Email Appliance

After testing and evaluation, the CRN Test Center recommends this product for a number of reasons, including ease of installation and the power of the software included.