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  • Enhanced Email Smart Banners

    Sophos Email’s Smart Banners provide message recipients with an easy way to identify messages sent from external senders and alert them to be more cautious. The latest addition to Smart Banners allows email recipients to now report spam and unw...
  • Sophos Email Message History Upgraded

    As email continues as an ever-present foundation of business communication for ease of transmission, accessible nature, and quick means for recording messages, the need to preserve the content of messages is more important than ever. To support this ...
  • Portal Encryption for Sophos Email

    Sophos Email Advanced Portal Encryption (or you may know it as Pull Encryption) is now available as an add-on product to Sophos Email Advanced. Portal Encryption allows email senders to securely deliver an encrypted email onto a web portal. The recip...
  • EAP Coming Soon: Sophos Email Search and Destroy for O365

    [Updated 3 February 2021] The EAP for Sophos Email Advanced post-delivery protection for O365 mailboxes is now live and ready to join. A lot can happen from the moment an email lands in your inbox. Once safe URLs can become weaponized for phishing, a...
  • Sophos Email Advanced Threat Reporting

    Get unparalleled visibility into email attachments detonated in the Sophos cloud sandbox, with a breakdown of threat verdicts based on machine learning analysis, file reputation scores, VirusTotal results and Mitre ATT&CK Matrix tactics.

     

    About Sophos Email Sandbox (Sandstorm)

    The sandbox is an effective way to keep malicious behavior and malicious threats off the network and your endpoints.

    The way it does that is…

  • Sophos Email: Email Detection Capability Improvements!

    Hi All,

    Sophos will begin rolling out improvements to our email detection capabilities. These changes are being made to improve overall detection efficacy with a focus on bulk email.

    • Bulk email is defined as newsletters, marketing emails, and all other forms of automated solicited mail.

    As a result, Sophos Email users may notice more emails being marked as bulk. The list below provides recommended actions to take:

    Customers…

  • Phishing Email Impersonation Protection - Now Available

    Phishing emails impersonating well-known brands and VIPs within an organization are a big problem for security teams to deal with. So, we’re excited to announce the ability to now detect and block these impersonation attacks with Sophos Email Advanced.

     

    The Threat from Email Impersonation Phishing Attacks

    The latest study from Sophos revealed that five out of ten organizations see malicious emails as their top security…

  • Impersonation Protection Reporting Now Available for EAP customers

    Email Impersonation Report 

     

    Early Access customers can now get answers to a critical question: "Which users are being targeted by BEC?" We've recently out impersonating reporting to our EAP customers, providing visibility into users that are being targeted with BEC and other types of impersonation attacks.

     

    Release Highlights 

    • Impersonation customers will notice the At Risk Users report now contains two…
  • Email Impersonation Protection EAP Now Available

    We’re excited to announce the ability to detect and block email impersonation phishing attacks with Sophos Email Advanced – now available as an early access program.

     

    The Threat from Email Impersonation Phishing Attacks

    A new study has revealed that 43% of SMEs have been targeted by impersonation phishing attacks in the past year. In these attacks, criminals often try to deceive employees, using the name of…

  • Sophos Email Data Loss Prevention Now Live

    Data loss prevention for Sophos Email Advanced is now live in Sophos Central, and included with the Sophos Email Advanced licence. Allowing you to protect sensitive information, with discovery of financials, confidential contents, health information, and PII in all emails and attachments.

    Now combined in one license, with a single policy management view. Data loss prevention and content control provide advanced data breach…

  • Sophos Email Data Loss Prevention EAP is Live

    The email data loss prevention Early Access Program for Sophos Email Advanced is now live in Sophos Central. Joining this EAP will allow you to protect sensitive information, with discovery of financials, confidential contents, health information, and PII (Personally identifiable information) in all emails and attachments.

    The data loss prevention EAP is available to any Sophos Email Advanced customer. Available in the…

  • Sophos Email Smart Banners

    News: Feature update

    Overview

    Launching by the end of April, Sophos Email Advanced license customers will soon be able to add Smart Banners to any email received from outside the organization. These help recipients to identify the risk from each email and allows them to add senders to their allow and block lists with one click.

    • Simple colored grading system allows the recipient to quickly identify how trustworthy a sender…
  • Sophos Email Encryption

    News: Feature update

    Encryption for Sophos Email is now live in all Sophos Central accounts, and included in the Sophos Email Advanced license at no extra cost.

    Overview of Sophos Email Encryption

    Secure sensitive data and make compliance easy, with easy-to-use secure email encryption from Sophos. Converting a standard email into one with encrypted attachments - sent direct to the recipient’s inbox.

    • Encryption setup…
  • Sophos Email Content Control – Now Live

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    Sophos Email Content Control is now live and has been added to all Sophos Email Advanced accounts.

     

    Content Control for Sophos Email Advanced makes is easy to quickly build content filtering policies across your organization, preventing outbound email data loss and inbound malware threats. Define which file types are allowed on inbound email, and which file types are allowed outbound. Block…

  • Sophos Email Encryption EAP

    The Sophos Email product team would like to invite all our Sophos Email Advanced customers to check out the latest Early Access Program for Sophos Email Advanced – Email Encryption. Once launched in Q2 2019, Email Encryption will be included in the Sophos Email Advanced license at no extra cost.

     

    In this article, you’ll find:

    • What we are asking you to do
    • An overview of Sophos Email Encryption
    • Top customer…
  • Sophos Email Content Control Early Access Program

    Sophos Email Content Control EAP

    The Sophos Email product team would like to invite all our Sophos Email Advanced customers to check out the latest early access program for Sophos Email Advanced – Content Control – our first phase in the launch of encryption in Q1, and DLP later in 2019. Here’s what you need to know…

     

    In this article, you’ll find:

    • When does the Early Access Program start…
  • Sophos Email: Compromised Mailbox Detection

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    Having your email account compromised by attackers is seriously bad news. That’s why Sophos Synchronized Security now connects Sophos Email with Sophos Endpoint. Delivering automatic detection and clean-up of infected computers sending outbound spam and viruses.

     

    The symptoms of a compromised mailbox

    When your domain is used to spread malicious emails, it can impact your reputation…

  • Synchronized Security with Email, Endpoint and Phish Threat

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    50% of employees admit to clicking links from unknown senders. Sophos Synchronized Security now helps find those risky users and train them in the latest launch from Sophos Email Advanced and Phish Threat (coming soon to Endpoint).

     

    Sophos Email and Phish Threat

    Available now, Sophos Email Advanced is the first Secure Email Gateway to feed intelligence directly to a security awareness training…

  • Sophos Email Reporting and Policy Enhancements

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    New detailed message summaries, policy enhancements and mailbox search makes Sophos Email even more valuable to email administrators.

     

    New Reporting

    Now view detailed summary information for every inbound and outbound message processed by Sophos Email.

    Starting from the ‘Message History’ report in Sophos Central. Simply selected the new clickable email subject line of the message you’d like…

  • Introducing Sophos Email Advanced and New Standard License Features

    News: Feature update and new license type

     

    Overview

    The launch of the new Sophos Email Advanced license brings new, smarter email security to Sophos Central. Featuring Active Threat Protection, powered by artificial intelligence, with malicious attachment sandboxing and Time-of-click advanced URL protection. Plus, additions for existing Sophos Email Standard license customers including new outbound mail scanning, multi…

  • Sender Policy Framework (SPF) authentication – Now available on Sophos Email

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    SPF (Sender Policy Framework) authentication for inbound email is now available in Sophos Email, and a great way to cut down spam and phishing attacks by blocking spoofed email.

    Activate SPF in your Sophos Email policy with a simple toggle switch and we will begin checking the IP address of email senders against a list of authorized IP address published in the sending domain’s DNS record…

  • Manage Sophos Email message quarantine your way - administrator access now available

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    The launch of administrator access to end user email quarantine in Sophos Email now gives you more control to manage quarantined messages your way.

     

    Best of both worlds

    Are looking to free your team from quarantine release requests but still have access if needed?

    The new Admin Quarantine list view allows administrators (all admins roles) to view and manage the quarantined messages for all…

  • Manually add aliases in Sophos Email on Central

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    The ability for Admins to manually enter mailbox alias records is now live in Sophos Email on Central.

    If you’re not using Active Directory, or looking to install it, this feature is what you’ve been waiting for.

     

    How it works

    Perfect for directing generic email address to a specific member of the team e.g. info@yourdomain.com, or when you an employee prefers their mail to be…

  • More for Quarantine Digest - Enhancements available in Sophos Email on Central

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    Sophos Email’s new in-message quarantine digest feature just got a boost. New features now give you more control over when emails are sent, and users receive an improved experience.

     

    Admin panel updates

    • Choose the time zone for your users in a simple drop down list
    • Select the day(s) of the week your users receive a quarantine summary email
    • Set the time of day users receive the summary…
  • Quarantine Digest now available in Sophos Email on Central

    News: Feature update

     

    Overview

    Sophos Email’s easy to use preset controls have your message quarantine policies setup and your business protected in seconds. Once setup, don’t tie your IT team up with quarantine release requests – the end user portal lets users release mails on demand, and the new in-message quarantine digests provides a daily summary of quarantined mail, with the option to release direct…