Sophos Secures Your Itanium-based Linux Future
The Itanium Solutions Alliance recently announced it reached agreement with Sophos (http://www.sophos.com/), a leading provider of enterprise solutions for IT security and control, to provide a new level of support for Itanium systems running on Linux.
Sophos already supports HP-UX, OpenVMS and Windows (including the recently-released Windows Server 2008) on Itanium-based systems, but with a new release of Sophos Anti-Virus coming in Q4 2008, it will now support Itanium-based systems running Red Hat EL 4.x and Red Hat EL 5.x versions of Linux.
Along with the continuing growth of Linux for mission-critical enterprise applications is, unfortunately, a parallel growth in the attacks on such systems with advanced computer viruses and malware. So the porting of Sophos Anti-Virus to support the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux editions for Itanium is welcome news indeed.
Sophos’ approach to its Enterprise Security products is highly-regarded worldwide and with good reason. One of the keys to this is a unique approach to what they refer to as “Behavioral Genotype Protection”® and run-time protection algorithms. These systems track not only the presence of known viruses and malware but also their artifacts as well — in registry changes and other data log alterations, all with the end result of identifying the presence of such dangers as early as possible.
Like other companies providing antivirus software, Sophos delivers proven algorithms to identify, quickly disable, and quarantine antivirus threats. But where they are different is their extensive focus on enterprise systems. They understand the importance of providing powerful control tools for setting up and managing the overall IT end-to-end security infrastructure, including centralized installation services, malware alerting mechanisms, and advanced security software appliances to monitor web gateways to your system in real-time.
The combination of these tools is a sophisticated approach to isolating both known and new malware and system threats at their earliest emergence. The tools are accurate, thorough, and run quickly with minimal IT overhead.
Add to this that the new offerings Sophos will provide are some of the most powerful and extensive anti-virus solutions for Itanium-based systems running on Linux, and you have a compelling product any of you Itanium Linux Users out there should be considering.
Watch for it in Q4 2008.
