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Sophos Update — Sept. 2008. Ian Atkin (ian.atkin@ict.ox.ac.uk) Bridget Lewis (bridget.lewis@ict.ox.ac.uk). Staff Changes. James Partridge moved to OUCS to work full time on OS X ICT Support Team will continue to manage the Sophos distribution for OUCS No change to support routes
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Sophos Update — Sept. 2008 Ian Atkin (ian.atkin@ict.ox.ac.uk) Bridget Lewis (bridget.lewis@ict.ox.ac.uk)
Staff Changes • James Partridge moved to OUCS to work full time on OS X • ICT Support Team will continue to manage the Sophos distribution for OUCS • No change to support routes • help@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Licence Renewal • Renewed to 2013 • Endpoint Security and Control • Email Security and Control • Additional components now included • On the next 3 slides, look for
Endpoint Security and Control • Sophos Anti-Virus • Sophos Client Firewall • Enterprise Console 3 • Role based administration tools add-on • Network Access Control • Not Advanced version • Sophos Mobile Security • Various Windows Mobile Editions
Windows Mobile Security • Investigating possibility of providing preconfigured versions using personal and University credentials • Various versions of Windows Mobile supported
Email Security and Control • PureMessage • Antivirus and antispam • PureMessage for Exchange 2000/2003 and 2007 • Hotfix may be required (see references) • 3.0.2 recently released (includes various fixes and support for 2008) • PureMessage for Notes Domino R6.5 and R7 © Matthew W. Jackson
Sophos AV for Windows 2000+ • Automatic update to v7.6 end September • Requires reboot • AV protection maintained even if not rebooted • Anti-rootkit functionality included • Browser scanning • IE 6 & 7 Add-on (Browser Helper Object) • Blocking of malicious content
Did you know…? • Device management • Block use of bluetooth, infrared, wireless, removable devices, etc… • Application control • Block unwanted applications using signatures • e.g. KaZaA, Doom • Via Enterprise Console policies
ftp Access and Unzip Password • Authorised ftp access to micros.oucs.ox.ac.uk withdrawn • Wednesday 3 September • Logs show very little access • Unzip password on Windows client (personal edition) has gone • With 2008/9 version
Credentials Change • Affects standalone personal versions only • Aiming to expire old credentials 4 November • New versions available from Registration as of Wednesday 10 September • Emailing users in October • Registered users only; excluding new users • Minor updates to web pages
Credentials • New credentials start em51 (valid now to November 2009) • Old credentials start em69 (expire November 2008) • Anything else is probably University or local update location (or very old) • Details in wiki • https://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itss/Sophos
Useful links • OUCS Main information page for ITSS • http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/viruses/itss/ • Overview of products; main known issues; support routes; Sophos technical alerts RSS feed • Sophos downloads page for ITSS • https://downloads.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itss/ictst/sophos/ • Credentials via Registration — https://register.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itssindex • Sophos downloads for personal editions • Via Registration — https://register.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ • Wiki page • https://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itss/Sophos
References • v7.6 Upgrade • http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/44593.html • http://sophos.com/products/free-tools/sophos-anti-rootkit.html • Device & application management • http://sophos.com/security/sophoslabs/device-control.html • http://sophos.com/security/sophoslabs/application-control.html
References • PureMessage for Exchange • Hotfix — http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/31441.html