Sophos Antivirus for Blue Coat

High performance, Real-time Virus Scanning of Web Content

New viruses, spyware, Trojans, ‘bots, worms, and other malware increasingly use the Web browser to invade organizations’ PCs. Profit-motivated hackers exploit HTTP and HTTPS because these are essentially allowed protocols for most organizations, and permitted by firewalls. This is the weak spot in most security plans. To make matters worse, newer malware often uses root kits so difficult to remove that administrators are forced to erase the hard drive and start over. To prevent these increasing costs and headaches, malware must never get to the PCs where it could execute.

Virus Scanning at the Internet access point plays a critical role in network security by removing harmful content at the security perimeter—before it enters and infects the network. Just as organizations deployed virus scanning on corporate email systems to secure SMTP-based services, there is a need to deploy virus and malware scanning solutions to protect against new HTTP and HTTPS threats that utilize Web-based services.

Layered Security – Web AV with Blue Coat SG provides a choice of AV engines allowing enterprises to leverage “Vendor A” for their network virus scanning and “Vendor B” for their desktops, servers and gateways. Comprehensive Blue Coat policies and method-level controls in the Blue Coat SG stop worm outbreaks where virus signatures fall short.

Web virus scanning with Blue Coat SG enables organizations to scan for viruses, worms and trojans entering through Web-based backdoors including:

• Personal Web email accounts where a majority of viruses and worms propagate
• Web spam or email spam which unknowingly may activate trojan downloads
• Browser-based file downloads that bypass existing virus scanning defenses

Blue Coat Systems has developed strategic partnerships to complete its Web virus scanning solution. Blue Coat AV provides an appliance-ready solution with support for antivirus engines from Kaspersky, McAfee, Panda, Sophos, and Ahn Lab.

Documentation:

Download the Blue Coat SG with Web Virus Scanning Datasheet (PDF).