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Sophos PureMessage for UNIX
Carrier-grade message security

PureMessage for UNIX

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Overview:

You require flexibility, scalability and granular control from your messaging security infrastructure. PureMessage for UNIX delivers just what you need. You get all the advanced threat and spam protection you'd expect from SophosLabs. And we equip you with all the fine-grained management controls you require.

Key Benefits

  • Manage email with unprecedented granularity and flexibility
  • Customize extensively based on our open architecture
  • Delegate with role-based administration
  • Run your own on-premise service with built-in multitenancy
  • Deploy and integrate easily even in unique environments
  • Protect users from the latest email threats
  • Keep inboxes free of spam
  • Control content and prevent data loss
  • Secure sensitive email with TLS encryption

Features:

Powerful Message Security

PureMessage for UNIX is not just an email security solution. It's a platform for message security that can be tailored to meet the needs of even the most demanding operations.

Open architecture
You get a platform designed with complete customization and extensibility in mind. You can modify, automate and customize system operations with the built-in tools and powerful scripting.

Granular policy controls
You get a powerful policy builder with deep authoring capabilities including over 65 tests and actions and unlimited levels of nested rules. You also have full control over per-user and per-group policy elements.

Scalability, integration and interoperability
PureMessage for UNIX deploys on a broad range of UNIX platforms, works seamlessly in a multi-server cluster and with most SMTPbased messaging and email encryption solutions. It also fully supports IPv6 networks and integrates with external systems like LDAP directory services, custom web portals and much more.

Granular Policy Rules
Granular Policy Rules

Our web-based management console provides granular custom controls over all policy rules.

Administration that fits with your large business

PureMessage for UNIX makes your job easier with flexible management options, whether you're managing the messaging for a large government or a higher-education institution, an enterprise business or your own service provider.

Delegated administration
You can build precisely the right delegated administration model to fit your organization's service delivery structure. And you can assign granular access rights based on the administrator's role or by domain, groups or individual users.

Multi-tenancy
We make it easy to run an in-house messaging service. Why rely on a third party SaaS solution when you could do it yourself? With PureMessage for UNIX, you can securely partition your customers with our built-in groups capability. Each group gets their own web management console for configuration, policy, reporting and quarantine management.

Quarantine management
Our streamlined administrator and end-user quarantine management is designed to get out of the way. It includes intuitive but powerful search options and task-oriented actions. It also gives you full visibility into the message status and direct access to the mail content to make quarantine management less of a pain in those rare instances you need to use it.

Message forensics
We help you get answers quickly and easily. Powerful message tracking with equally powerful search capabilities allows you to zero in on your target messages efficiently and effectively.

Reporting
We give you the capability to report on what really matters most. Use any of the 33 built-in reports or create your own based on custom policies to get instant visibility into the mission critical parameters that you need to make decisions and take action.

Security backed by SophosLabs

Our global blended threat labs operate and capture thousands of new virus, spam and web threats 24/7. Threat analysis and advanced technology are critical for effective security, and our consistent 99.8% spam catch rate speaks volumes.

Anti-spam technologies
Our engine uses a broad range of anti-spam technologies including reputation filtering, dynamic URL analysis, live lookups, heuristics, content finger printing, genotypes and more.

Reputation filtering
We eliminate most spam even before our engine scans incoming mail. Our Sender Genotype technology stops spam based on the reputation of the sender, whether the unwanted email comes from a known offender or a new source.

Live protection
We protect you from the latest spam campaigns. Live Anti-Spam uses our cloud service to catch spam in real time and keep it out of inboxes.

Proactive threat protection
We block new threats at the gateway before they reach your mail servers. With our Behavioral Genotype Protection, you get the best proactive protection from zero-day threats.

Group Manager Console
Group Manager Console
Each multi-tenant group has their own web-based console to manage their own quarantine, reporting and configuration.

Email Product Comparison:

Sophos Email Product Comparison
  Sophos Email Appliances PureMessage for UNIX PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange PureMessage for Lotus Domino
Network location Gateway Gateway Gateway and groupware Groupware
Organization size

For organizations of all sizes:

  • ES1000 (processes up to 50,000 messages/hour)
  • ES5000 (up to 380,000 messages/hour)
  • ES8000 (up to 550,000 messages/hour)

Appliances can be clustered for scalability and multi-site environments.

50-25,000+ end users 50-10,000+ end users 50-10,000+ end users
Customer requirements
  • Appliance-based protection against spam, malware, and data leakage plus enforcement of custom messaging policies, with minimal administrative overhead
  • End-user spam quarantine functionality
  • More reliable and accessible support services
  • Complete protection from spam, malware and data loss, plus enforcement of custom messaging policies
  • Extensive user- or group-based policy flexibility
  • Delegated administration
  • End-user spam quarantine functionality
  • Spam and malware protection in a single or clustered Microsoft Exchange server environment
  • Virus protection for Exchange message stores using standard Microsoft APIs
  • Ability to control email traffic by attachment content, file type, size, email content
  • End-user spam quarantine functionality
  • Malware and spam protection in a single or replicated Domino server environment
  • Ability to control email traffic by attachment content, file type, size or message content
  • End-user spam quarantine functionality
Ideal customer profile
  • Organizations looking with limited in-house IT resources dedicated strictly to security
  • Organizations seeking to reduce the amount of time spent on email security
Large or complex organizations with established UNIX skills, diverse email management requirements (group, department, customer)
  • Higher education
  • Government
  • Managed email service providers
Small, medium and large organizations wanting:
  • Anti-virus protection for their Exchange message stores
  • A standard Windows gateway solution for spam, virus and spyware protection, and email content control
Small, medium and large organizations looking for:
  • Anti-virus and anti-spam protection for their Lotus Domino servers
  • Content filtering and disclaimers
Installation Easy installation in any network - plug and protect Supports a range of single- and multi-server installation options
  • Easy installation - InstallShield Wizard
  • Out-of-the-box settings provide immediate protection from malware and spam
  • Easy installation - InstallShield Wizard
  • Recommended default policies can easily be enabled to provide protection
Supported platforms Management console
  • Web-based
Onboard software
  • Hardened FreeBSD operating system
  • Postfix MTA
Management console
  • Web-based
PureMessage software
  • Linux
  • Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • Virtualization: Linux on VMWare ESX and Sun Solaris 10 containers
MTAs
  • Sendmail (8.13.6 inc): 8.11.6 or higher
  • Postfix (2.5.4 inc): 2.0.x and 2.1 or higher
  • Supports Sun Java™ System Messaging Server 6 and SunOne Messaging Server 5.2 on Solaris and SPARC
Management console
  • Windows XP/2003 and above
  • Active Directory (optional)
  • MMC 3
PureMessage services
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010
  • Microsoft SQL 2005/2008
  • IIS
Clustering
  • Exchange 2010: DAGs
  • Exchange 2007: SCC, CCR
  • Exchange 2003 R2: SCC, CCR
  • Exchange 2003 & earlier: SCC

Email server
Lotus Domino server R7, R8.0x, and R8.5 (32-bit/64-bit)
PureMessage software
Windows 2000 Server
Windows Server 2003 (32-bit/64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32-bit/64-bit)

*Lotus Domino server R6 is supported by PureMessage for Notes/Domino v3

Management console Web-based: "three-clicks-to-anywhere" navigation. Designed for management by exception - system notifies admin when attention is required Web-based GUI and UNIX command line
  • Windows MMC snap-in
  • Exchange 2007-style layout
Domino-based interface
Database Not applicable PostgreSQL 8 (bundled) SQL Server Express 2005 (bundled)
SQL Server
Domino databases
Multi-server capability Up to 10 appliances can be clustered for scalability and centrally managed in single- or multi-site environments Highly configurable - synchronized administration with option to distribute functions across multiple servers
  • Manage and monitor all email servers from one console
  • Supports Exchange clustering
  • Quarantine and reporting data from multiple servers can be stored in a single database
Supports Domino clustering
Quarantine management Administrator:
Powerful message tracking with single-point access to logs and onboard quarantine
End user:
Personal quarantine accessed via email digest or web interface
Administrator:
Consolidated and group-based view of quarantined items across all servers
End user:
Personal quarantine accessed via email digest or web interface
Administrator:
Consolidated view of quarantined items across all Exchange servers
End user:
Personal quarantine accessed via email digest or web interface. Active Directory single sign-on
Administrator:
Consolidated view of quarantined items across all Domino servers
End user:
Optional devolution of review and release of non-malware and non-spam quarantined files to end users
Allow lists and block lists Offers both administrator and end-user-defined allow and block lists Offers both administrator and end-user-defined allow and block lists Administrator-defined allow and block lists Administrator-defined allow and block lists
Policy enforcement Offers an easy-to-use, highly flexible policy wizard for defining custom policies for inbound and outbound email
  • Prioritize, activate, or deactive policy rules quickly and easily
  • Supplies customized policies for attachments and unwanted and malicious content
  • Searches for content within attachments created using common office applications
  • Routing to third-party encryption or archiving systems
  • Adds disclaimers (global, user or group)
  • Offers a fully configurable, highly flexible policy engine for inbound and outbound email
  • Supplies customized policies for attachments and unwanted and malicious content
  • Searches for content within common office applications
  • Adds disclaimers (global, user or group)
  • Integrates with third-party encryption or archiving systems
  • Enables customized policy for unwanted and malicious content and attachments
  • Set policies for inbound, outbound and internal email flows
  • Uses Active Directory users and groups within email policy
  • Search for content within common office applications
  • Adds disclaimers
  • Enables customized policy for unwanted and malicious content and attachments
  • Adds disclaimers
Spam thresholds Configurable policies for medium- and high- risk spam Multiple configurable policies and thresholds Configurable policies for medium- and high- risk spam Multiple configurable policies and thresholds
Reputation filtering Sender Genotype blocks email from known bad senders at MTA or policy level, and proactively detects botnet senders Sender Genotype blocks email from known bad senders and proactively detects botnet senders. Blocks email from known bad senders at MTA or policy level Blocks email from known bad senders as part of spam analysis Blocks email from known bad senders as part of spam analysis
Virus policy Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments Policy customization for viruses and encrypted, suspicious and restricted attachments
Languages supported
  • Mail processing: anti-virus and anti-spam, fully internationalized
  • End-user interface: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Swedish
  • Management console: English
  • Mail processing: anti-virus and anti-spam, fully internationalized
  • End-user interface: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese
  • Management console: English
  • Mail processing: anti-virus and anti-spam, fully internationalized
  • Admin and end-user interfaces: English and Japanese
  • Mail processing: fully internationalized
  • Admin and end-user interfaces: English
Customization via Sophos ProServices No Yes. Sophos Professional Services provides a range of customizations No No
User directory management Fully synchronized and automated Active Directory integration, tools for manual integration with other LDAP-based directory services Built-in list management, plus LDAP or Active Directory Fully synchronized and automated Active Directory integration Domino directory integration

Features & Capabilities
  Email Appliances
(Hardware/Virtual)
PureMessage for UNIX PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange PureMessage for Lotus Domino
Deployment
Network Gateway or Mail Server Network Gateway Network Gateway Exchange Server/Cluster Domino Server/Cluster
Threat protection
Sophos Anti-virus
Zero-day protection
Malicious URL blocking
Spam protection
Sender Genotype Reputation Filtering
Live Anti-spam
Data protection
Integrated policy-based SPX Encryption      
Integrated TLS encryption
Content filtering rules
Offensive content blocking
Content aware DLP      
SophosLabs managed DLP dictionaries      
Management
Real-time dashboard  
Policy based reporting
Support
Managed appliance service      
24/7/365 Support
Free updates/upgrades
Free updates/upgrades 3 years N/A N/A N/A

Specifications:

System Requirements:

Platform Support

  • Debian 5 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Debian 6 (64 bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64 bit)
  • CentOS 5.6 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Suse Enterprise Server 11 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Ubuntu 10.04 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Solaris 10 (Update 6 and above)

Gateway Mail Platforms

  • Sendmail (8.14.4 included)
  • Postfix (2.8.2 included)
  • Milter support for Oracle
  • Communications Messaging
  • Exchange Server on Solaris SPARC
  • Other Mail Transfer Agents: supported via relay configuration

Memory

  • Minimum: 2GB
  • Recommended: 4GB

Disk Space

  • 500MB plus quarantine space

Network Addressing

  • IPv4, IPv6

Documentation:

Download the Sophos PureMessage for UNIX Data Sheet (PDF).

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Download the Sophos Email Product Comparison (PDF).

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Download the Sophos Email Security and Data Protection Data Sheet (PDF).

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