1 About Your Appliance
The Sophos Web Appliances and Sophos Management Appliances include a powerful, highly
effective, and easy-to-use administrative web interface that provides configuration and reporting
tools, automated software updates, and self-monitoring to minimize the administrator’s day-to-day
involvement in web security and control maintenance. You can customize the appliances’ default
URL-handling policy and message pages, and accept or reject end user requests for changes to
the handling of blocked URLs submitted via an end user feedback system.
Organizations typically expend considerable resources and effort preventing
,
infections from entering their networks via email. These threats, as well as
,
,
and
scams are increasingly infiltrating organizations’ networks via web browsing.
Inappropriate web browsing by employees is also a significant legal liability and productivity
concern for many organizations.The Sophos Web Appliance provides extensive URL categorization
data that allows you to set acceptable web access
for your organization that are highly
customizable and enforceable. These policies can allow user access, warn users that they will
be violating policy if they continue to a requested site, or block user access based on over fifty
categories of URLs. In addition to your default acceptable web access policy,
exceptions are available as differentiated “Special Hours” policies. There is also the potential to
create numerous additional policies that can be used as per-user or per-group exceptions to the
default and Special Hours web access policies.
The Web Appliances use the proven Sophos Anti-Virus engine, regularly updated with the latest
internet threats every 5 to 30 minutes by SophosLabs
™
, our global threat detection network.
has more than 20 years’ experience in protecting businesses from known and
emerging threats. URL categorization data is similarly updated every 5 to 30 minutes, and the
enhanced categorization data is updated hourly.
The Web Appliance is easy to install, configure, and maintain.
1.1 Sophos Web Appliance Features
The Web Appliance is an enterprise solution for organizations of various sizes.
Fast, full-spectrum protection and control
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