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Sophos Endpoint Updates over https

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For the past 3 or 4 years we have posed the question to Sophos as to why we cannot update our clients out in the field using a web CID over https. So far this has failed to materialise, which I found bizarre for a company that deals with security. We are a large University and to ensure we our students and staff are protected from viruses and malware, they are allowed to install Sophos on their computers. Now as we like to ensure that we adhere to our licence our users must update Sophos using their University credentials.

As our University credentials are being used to grant access to more and more sensitive systems, this is becoming a real security issue and we are not happy about this credentials being passed over effectively in plain text! Of course we'd have the overhead of the encryption on our webservers, but I'm happy to take that hit and the servers can handle it.

Does anyway else have this requirement for updates via https? I can't believe we are the only ones.

My understanding is that this is now being discussed as a feature request, but it would be good to have some more people on board. Please post your comments below.

Regards, Richard

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    Thanks for the replies John and Douglas - I'm aware there's no ideal solution to this that solves all problems, but from my point of view solution 1) (using a certificate from a trusted CA) would be the best option.  This would only cost us approx £483 for three years which doesn't really make that much difference when added to the cost of our Sophos licensing for the same time frame.  Also, the vast majority of our users are on Windows machines with a few Mac users, so I'm not too worried about clients not having up-to-date lists of CA certificates.

    The main concern is passwords being sent in clear text, and if buying a certificate resolves that issue then so be it.  As mentioned above I'm keen to keep our licences restricted to people who are actually entitled to them, and AD authentication seems the best option for that.  Maybe not the best solution for other people posting here, but in my case it's the best.

    Thanks

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    Thanks for the replies John and Douglas - I'm aware there's no ideal solution to this that solves all problems, but from my point of view solution 1) (using a certificate from a trusted CA) would be the best option.  This would only cost us approx £483 for three years which doesn't really make that much difference when added to the cost of our Sophos licensing for the same time frame.  Also, the vast majority of our users are on Windows machines with a few Mac users, so I'm not too worried about clients not having up-to-date lists of CA certificates.

    The main concern is passwords being sent in clear text, and if buying a certificate resolves that issue then so be it.  As mentioned above I'm keen to keep our licences restricted to people who are actually entitled to them, and AD authentication seems the best option for that.  Maybe not the best solution for other people posting here, but in my case it's the best.

    Thanks

    :3067
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