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I may have found a massive hole in Data Control which is slightly worring?

nerohero

It would appear that if you create a Data Control Policy which prevent users from emailing file types to unauthorised email destinations like gmail, webmail, hotmail and attach any document from a network directory it allows the email to be sent (Shocking).

If you attach a file from your local machine it blocks the file fine, it would seem that the Sophos agent has difficulties understanding mapped drives which it pretty shocking for a security product.

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I have sent this information to Sophos to review and I may have missed something so don't take this as gospel.  This maybe an isolated issue which is happening in my environment.

Server 2003 R2 x64 SEC 4.7.0.13

Client Win7 x86 9.5

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    Must say this is a problem for me - >95% of our documents are stored on networked locations and we hoped to be able to use Sophos endpoint to help identify potential data leakage. Not scanning files from a network location renders it ineffective for this purpose.

    Unticking exclude remote files fixes the issue but generates a significant performance impact especially for users at the end of slower network links.

    James

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    Must say this is a problem for me - >95% of our documents are stored on networked locations and we hoped to be able to use Sophos endpoint to help identify potential data leakage. Not scanning files from a network location renders it ineffective for this purpose.

    Unticking exclude remote files fixes the issue but generates a significant performance impact especially for users at the end of slower network links.

    James

    :17695
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