Sophos PureMessage for UNIX
Carrier-grade message security
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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
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
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 | ||||
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| 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:
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 |
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Large or complex organizations with established UNIX skills, diverse email management requirements (group, department, customer)
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Small, medium and large organizations wanting:
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Small, medium and large organizations looking for:
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| Installation | Easy installation in any network – plug and protect | Supports a range of single- and multi-server installation options |
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| Supported platforms | Management console
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Management console
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Management console
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Email server *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 |
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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 |
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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
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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).
Download the Sophos Email Product Comparison (PDF).
Download the Sophos Email Security and Data Protection Data Sheet (PDF).
Pricing Notes:
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.