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  • Message History - Advanced Search and Enhancements

    What is new We are taking the first step towards supporting advanced search capability in reports. In this release, we have introduced Advanced Search capabilities in Message History. Watch the video attached at end of this post to familiarize y...
  • New Techvids Release - Sophos Email: Get Started with Sophos Email

    Emmanuel from Sophos Support provides an overview of Sophos Email and walks you through the steps for configuration in your environment.Part 1: Shows the steps for configuring Gateway Mode using On-Premise Exchange.Part 2: Covers Policy Configur...
  • Message History API

    What’s new We have introduced a new feature, Message History API. The Message History API uses Sophos Central XDR Data Lake to collect the Message History data, which can then be queried using this API. Watch the video attached at end of t...
  • Enhanced Time of Click Protection

    Although HTTP/1.1 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) does not specify any requirement for URL length, various products of Microsoft do not support URLs beyond a certain length. Microsoft Outlook does not support URLs longer than 2048 characters. This limi...
  • Policy Enhancement

    What’s new We have enhanced the policies in Sophos Email to support applying a policy to external domains and mailboxes also. The capability is added to both Email Security and Data Control policies. You can watch the video attached at end...
  • Strict enforcement of TLS for Encryption

    Overview To improve the security, Sophos Email implemented a stricter enforcement of TLS connection in accounts where the encryption or decryption was configured. The improvement worked well for a large majority of customer. However, it caused disrup...
  • New Techvids Release - Sophos Email: Self Service Portal (SSP)

    Jose from Sophos Support will talk about Sophos Email's Self Service Portal. This video will show you how to implement the Self Service Portal and what users can do within it. Watch the full video: https://techvids.sophos.com/share/watch/YoACUp8...
  • Interactive reporting

    What’s new We have launched the interactive reporting feature that makes reports consistent and granular, and significantly enhances the user’s experience of dashboard and reports. You can watch the video attached at end of this post to f...
  • Quarantine Option for Malware and other policy configuration enhancements

    We are happy to announce the release of the policy granularity enhancement, “Enhanced Malware Policy”, which enables Sophos Email admins to configure “Quarantine” action for emails detected as Malware/Virus, Malicious URLs, or...
  • Custom Branding for Encryption in Sophos Central Email

    What’s new As a Sophos Central Email customer, you can opt for custom branding of your encrypted messages and the encryption portal with your company logo, if you have the portal encryption license. All relevant sections of the web portal and...
  • [Release Notification] Sophos Email Multiselect in SSP Quarantine for general availability (GA)

    Hi Everyone, We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) for the Multiselect Option in the Self Service Portal (SSP) Quarantine. Previously, there was no option in the self-service portal for users to select and act on multiple...
  • [Release Notification] Sophos Email Plus Addresses Support for general availability (GA)

    Hi Everyone, We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) for the Plus Addresses support in Sophos Email. With this enhancement, the plus addresses will stop consuming a new mailbox seat. The plus addresses (e.g., user+temp@sample.com) w...
  • Sophos Central Email is now available in Canada region

    We are pleased to announce the addition of Sophos Central Email in Canada region. This welcome addition reduces compliance concerns for our Canadian customers and continues on our mission of delivering, easy to use, world class protection for our ema...
  • [Release Notification] Sophos Email Mailflow released for general availability (GA)

    Hi Everyone, We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) for Sophos Email Mailflow Rules (MFR). Sophos Email Mailflow Rules (MFR) integrate directly with Microsoft 365 (M365) and use Microsoft Exchange Connector Services to route messa...
  • Sophos Email Mailflow EAP - Say goodbye to MX redirections

    We’re pleased to announce, all Sophos Email customers using Office 365 can now integrate directly with Office 365 for inbound and outbound email protection without the need to redirect their MX records. Join the Sophos Email Mailflow Early Acce...
  • 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…