DLP Rolling Review: Sophos Endpoint Security
Posted by
Randy George and InformationWeek
October 05, 2009
Vendors offer more options for protecting data throughout its travels. We'll put their claims to the test.
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DLP Rolling Review: Sophos Endpoint Security
Sophos has made strategic acquisitions in an attempt to round out its range of endpoint security capabilities.
We've got interesting results and observations that will help you decide if DLP fits your risk management strategy, and if so, which vendors you should be talking to.
At first glance, the Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection agent looks similar to the Checkpoint Endpoint Security agent with respect to the amount of security features packed into a single client. While Checkpoint is still baking its endpoint DLP strategy in the oven, Sophos has started rolling some basic capabilities into the beta version of its new client sent in for review, version 9.0.
The Sophos Endpoint is the big-box store of endpoint security solutions, containing pretty much everything you need under one roof. The purchase of a single endpoint security and data protection license gets you antivirus, anti-malware, NAC, firewall, application, device, data control, full disk and file encryption. Would you like anything else with that order?
Still, in our experience, only a handful of companies have proven they can do lots of things well, and while the Sophos data loss component of the endpoint agent is much improved, it still has some catching up to do when compared with other endpoint focused DLP vendors, like Safend and Trend Micro for example.
Starting with the positives, the Sophos agent offers some options out of the box that even the largest DLP players do not, and that's a fairly robust device control to physical ports like USB, Firewire, IrD, parallel and application control capability, allowing administrators to control which application—and application components—are allowed to run.
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