Sophos Central Update - Email Content Control and much more
Sophos Central is being rapidly developed, and it’s time again to briefly summarize the most important new features and small updates of the last two months.
Email Gateway
A lot has happened with the Email Gateway module since the last update! A brand new feature for Sophos Central Email Advanced is called “Content Control” and protects you from data loss and harmful email attachments. Basically, the following functions are offered:
- Content Control filters inbound and outbound traffic for keywords and file types.
- Content Control identifies specific keywords in the subject, message, and file name of attachments.
- You can create your own lists of keywords and file types or simply use the file types recommended by Sophos.
- Prevent a data leak and have messages moved directly to quarantine or deleted if they violate a rule.
Synchronized Security has always been associated with the XG Firewall and Central. But Sophos is now also starting to let the Central Modules communicate with each other. This means, for example, that Sophos Email can instruct an Endpoint to scan a computer from which spam or virus emails are being sent. Brilliant, isn’t it?
But that’s not all! With the new Time-to-click function, Sophos Email automatically detects which users are particularly susceptible to phishing emails. Based on this data, a campaign for these at-risk users can be set up with just a few clicks using Sophos Phish Threat.
➜ To the video: Sophos Email Content Control ➜ To the video: Detection of compromised email accounts ➜ To the video: SyncSec with Email and Phish Threat
A feature that is still in the Early Access Program is Sophos Email Encryption. If you would like some information on this, you can read my experience report .
Phish Threat
From now on, in Sophos Phish Threat, you can select up to 5 attacks simultaneously, which are then sent in any order. This brings even more variety to your campaigns and makes training even more effective. A small note on the side: Phish Threat is now also available in Dutch. 😎
➜ To the video: Phish Threat randomized campaigns
Sophos Central Enterprise
There have also been two small innovations for the Enterprise Dashboard:
- When you create a new sub-management unit in the future, you can now select the data storage location of the Central Account (Germany, Ireland, USA).
- Global policies can now be created as a template! This allows you to apply the same global settings and basic policies to a selection of sub-management units.
