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End point anti-virus email alerts - SMTP Authentication

ChrisH

Hey guys,

I'm being told from my hosting provider that there is no way to get our Sophos virus killer to use SMTP authentication to send virus alerts.  They are insisting that we install an SMTP server into our web-server group, which I am not happy to do.

While I wouldn't want to question my hosting provider, and I appreciate there are ways around this with firewalls etc, I am stunned that Sophos would promote spam in such a way as to demand an SMTP server which is not completely locked down with SMTP auth be avaliable.

Is there any way to enable this feature?  Or do I have to bite the bullet and make an SMTP server without auth avaliable?

Many Thanks,

CH.

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    It's totally academic what my, your, or Techknow's opinion of policy is.

    We ignore our auditor and get hacked, we get fined hundreds of thousands of pounds by VISA and MasterCard

    We do what the auditor says and then layer our own security on top, we reduce the chance of getting hacked, and if it does happen VISA and MasterCard's insurance will back us.

    P.S. - the main point of that podcast seemed to be that password policy makes users pick things like "password1" with 1 incrementing every month - which is a **bleep** sight better than what we had before where the 4 most commonly used passwords were love, sex, god and password - to coin a phrase from a certain film.

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