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Optenet Forms Global Strategic Partnership with Sophos
May 2010 by Marc Jacob
Optenet, a pioneer and global leader of enabling SaaS offerings and delivering “on-premise” security solutions, today announced its global strategic partnership with IT security and data protection firm Sophos.
The strategic partnership sees Sophos’ first-class anti-virus scanning functionality fully integrated into Optenet’s flagship Web and Email security offerings including WebSecure (protection against malware and access to illegal or inappropriate web pages); MailSecure (spam detection and prevention solution); and NetSecure, which integrates all Optenet’s security protections into a single solution (anti-spam, web filtering, anti-virus, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, peer-to-peer and instant messaging).
SophosLabs – the blended intelligence behind all Sophos security technologies, including the malware scanning engine within Optenet email and web solutions – analyses 50,000 new malware samples every day.
As today’s threats are more sophisticated, targeted, and fast-moving, it’s critical to stop malware before a specific detection update can be released. Sophos Genotype® malware detection technology proactively blocks families of malware threats and analyses the behaviour of the code before it executes, therefore protecting users from 90 percent of unknown threats.
