Sophos recently announced the availability of Sophos Virtual Web Appliances which they claim will provide complete web protection, a streamlined management experience, and broad deployment flexibility in virtual environments.
Sophos Virtual Web Appliances is available for download via the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace, the new Virtual Web Appliances can be set up in minutes, bringing the company’s award-winning hardware security capabilities to businesses of any size with ease.
Virtualisation has helped organisations reduce capital and operating costs, and drive greater levels of application availability, it has also yielded benefits in flexibility, agility, and control. However, even as virtualisation has helped reduce the number of physical servers, the number of virtual servers continues to rise, resulting in increased complexity and server personnel management costs.
The new virtual web appliances from Sophos will make virtualisation easier, streamline provisioning and management processes with pre-configured performance profiles and integrated web appliance protection with the Sophos Endpoint security solution.
Sophos provides industry-leading web protection via a unique three-stage filter, which combines URL reputation filtering, advanced real-time malware scanning with behavioral analysis, and content control to guard against the latest threats. Sophos appliances also include advanced capabilities such as HTTPS scanning, dynamic anonymizing proxy blocking, and call home detection to cover essential blind-spots.
