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Protect your confidential files This free tool lets you secure your data easily and quickly without any central infrastructure in place. Individuals and businesses alike can easily protect selected files for email communication without building up a back-end PKI infrastructure. Quick and easy encryption for all your data Sophos Free Encryption creates password-protected encrypted archives [...]

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The Twitter boom has increased the use of URL shortening services such as TinyURL and bit.ly. These services can also be used maliciously by directing users to dangerous websites. The classic convenience/safety trade-off. bit.ly has made their service safer because they now use Sophos to protect users against visiting webpages that may contain a malware, [...]

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These tips should help if you are having problems updating Sophos clients: Make sure you have correct user name and password Enterprise Manager to connect to Sophos Attempt to download packages and check message log for any problems Check that update policy is correct in primary server and that credentials are correct Change log level [...]

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Keith Schultz at InfoWorld tested five competing endpoint security suites. Supposedly this was an in-depth test that started last May. Sophos beat the others mainly because of better reporting and management. I went into this review without any preconceived notions as to which product would fare the best, and I was pleasantly surprised to see [...]

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Blocking client-server applications like Ultrasurf at the network level can be a pain. Not so much if you have a firewall from Palo Alto Networks or a reasonably sophisticated URL filter like St. Bernard’s iPrism, but if you are constantly playing cat-and-mouse trying to block Ultrasurf et al. on your network you might see if [...]

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Sophos intends to buy Utimaco. Until then, Sophos will resell SafeGuard Enterprise and they now have a mutual referral agreement for all products from both companies. Utimaco will become a new business unit focused on data security and the SafeGuard brand will be retained. From the customer announcement email: Our future direction integrates information control [...]

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I’ve been watching (and selling) Sophos for years. It has become even easier to sell in the past 12 months simply by showing CA or McAfee customers the Sophos management console. Most see pretty quickly how much time it will save them. Sophos’ strategy seems to resonate as well: do more with less. With the [...]

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