Sophos Central Device Encryption Puts The Customer Security First
Sophos Central Device Encryption has been a huge help with compliance based issues. Customers that need extra protection and assurance …
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What is Sophos Central Device Encryption?
Sophos Central Device Encryption (formerly SafeGuard) is a full disk encryption solution, based on the technology acquired with Utimaco by Sophos in 2008. It provides full disk encryption for Windows and macOS, and enables users to confidentially share sensitive files.…
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What is Sophos Central Device Encryption?
Sophos Central Device Encryption (formerly SafeGuard) is a full disk encryption solution, based on the technology acquired with Utimaco by Sophos in 2008. It provides full disk encryption for Windows and macOS, and enables users to confidentially share sensitive files. A password protected HTML…
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What is Sophos Central Device Encryption?
Sophos Central Device Encryption (formerly SafeGuard) is a full disk encryption solution, based on the technology acquired with Utimaco by Sophos in 2008. It provides full disk encryption for Windows and macOS, and enables users to confidentially share sensitive files. A password protected HTML wrapper ensures only recipients with the correct password can access a document.
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Sophos Central Device Encryption (formerly SafeGuard) is a full disk encryption solution, based on the technology acquired with Utimaco by Sophos in 2008. It provides full disk encryption for Windows and macOS, and enables users to confidentially share sensitive files. A password protected HTML wrapper ensures only recipients with the correct password can access a document.
Dell Data Protection Suite, Seclore, and BitLocker Drive Encryption are common alternatives for Sophos Central Device Encryption.
The most common users of Sophos Central Device Encryption are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Sophos Central Device Encryption has been a huge help with compliance based issues. Customers that need extra protection and assurance have come to count on Sophos Central Device Encryption. We have sold it to many enterprises and small business clients who needed it for a variety of reasons including, protecting client laptops, meeting the needs for cyber security portfolios, and giving CEO's peace of mind knowing their networks are more secure.
- Securing Data
- Compliance
- Easy deployment
- simply the interface
- usability for non technical teams
- ease of deployment
- award winning customer service
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- Eset Endpoint Encryption and Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Sophos is the best in the business when it comes to secure and compliant. I have a high level of peace of mind when offering this product to the clients where I am unsure of the competitors. Sophos is a brand I trust to keep clients safe.
We migrated from an on-premise Sophos SafeGuard solution. This was coupled with a separate on-premise Sophos Anti Virus. So the systems were on two separate on-premise servers. Also, this meant our users who were increasingly working away from the office, needed to be on the corporate VPN to be able to pick up new definitions and new policies. We migrated to Sophos Central. This is a single online, internet-facing portal that now contains both our Anti Virus and Encryption solutions. We are also a global business and can now have a single global system, with different 'region specific' policies that are applied by putting the endpoint into the region's group. This is much better for administering the systems and also for the users not having to connect to the VPN.
- Centralised portal for both Anti Virus and Encryption
- Internet-facing with the ability for global / multi region access for large organizations
- Multi-level, built-in admin roles for different access levels for your Support Team. Also, you can define new roles to tailor to your organization
- You will probably need to define some admin roles to suit your business unless you are a very large organization. The built-in roles are very siloed. For example, the Helpdesk role that your normal technician would probably be assigned cannot add nor move computers between groups.
- Good for multi-region organization
- Good for standardization across those regions
- Internet-facing for users and support staff
- Incorporates both AV and Encryption
- One bill for your AV and Encryption solutions
- Central portal for your AV reporting
- The ability to have Sophos assist you (for extra cost) to help you identify and react to threats in real time
This was a natural progression for us, as we have multiple Sophos products. We did not look to any other product.
December 20, 2018
Sophos SafeGuard, A Must to protect your companies data
SafeGuard is deployed on all laptops to provide full disk encryption to protect our companies and clients data at all times. It also allows us to monitor that encryption status of all our company laptops.
- Provides full disk encryption.
- Provides monitoring for all laptops and tracks communication with our servers to ensure laptops are secure at all times.
- Integrates with Windows seamlessly.
- Data Recovery where the hard drive is having mechanical issues.
- Expand policy management.
- Performance of full disk encryption.
- Positive - mitigate lost or stolen laptops.
- Positive - data at rest is automatically protected from unauthorized users.
- Positive - easy roll out to enterprise or company-wide with provided tools.
- Negative - cost and expertise needed to setup correctly.
The only other one we looked at was Symantec endpoint encryption this seemed less feature reach and less user friendly.
March 06, 2018
Partnership with Sophos is great
We use Sophos for our email security. Together with Sophos partner we manage to use Sophos to encrypt certain emails. And we manage to use Sophos for the approval of the encrypted email. Before the email is sent to the recipient, the encrypted email will be quarantined. Once the IT Security gets the approval from the sender's Division Head, then IT Security releases the email. And the sender will receive the key for decryption, and sender needs to forward it to the recipient.
- Email encryption, it can encrypt based on the criteria defined. We use regex for this to discover the content.
- We can have a view of what is the content of the email being quarantined.
- We use Sophos together with our Email Exchange
- Sometimes Sophos response is slow
- The regex we use is too complicated, probably need to have cotext based discovery or machine learning?
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- We managed to identify and process the internal fraud cases (employee tried to send sensitive and costly information)
- The support from Sophos and our partner to deliver our requirements are more than the cost, this is a plus for Sophos
At that time, we chose Sophos based on the reputation and our partnership with our partner. And in general Sophos could give us more benefit than other competitors with the similar solution. However we do not feel comfortable to disclose information about comparison with other solutions. Despite that, we think Sophos could deliver our requirements very well with the cost that were reasonable for us.
November 07, 2017
SafeGuard Disk Protection
[It's being used by the] Organization to protect data using the Safeguard SOPHOS disk encryption solution. Sophos disk encryption is implemented across the globe/within entities.
- Easy disk encryption process
- Administration and management is very easy
- Value for money, as this does not require any special engineer to manage the Safeguard Sophos application
- The recovery/response challenge is secure
- It's ride on the Microsoft BIT Locker utility
- In the event of disk response the challenge process is tedious
- Incompatibility issues with some known branded laptops
- The disk encryption time is very high
- Intangible benefits to the organization data, data is highly secure
- No worries to users and IT for data stolen outside the organization
- Protected from malware and ransomware