Sophos is a world-leading developer of anti-virus and anti-spam software. The company protects businesses and organizations—from small enterprises to academic and financial institutions to governments and global corporations—against viruses and spam. Sophos is acclaimed for delivering the highest level of customer satisfaction and protection in the industry. The company's products are sold and supported in more than 150 countries.

The Sophos product line includes the following:

• Sophos Anti-Virus—desktops, servers, and laptops
• Sophos PureMessage—gateway anti-virus and anti-spam
• MailMonitor—gateway anti-virus
• Enterprise Manager—a powerful set of tools allowing fully automated, Web-based installation and updating of Sophos software across a network and even to remote users
• SAV Interface—allows third parties to enhance their applications and services by integrating with Sophos's powerful virus detection and disinfection capabilities. Installed as part of Sophos Anti-Virus, SAV Interface has minimal performance overhead and provides comprehensive reporting of any virus incident.

The software incorporates detection and disinfection of viruses in email, including those in attachments compressed with Zip and other popular compression utilities, plus features that give administrators complete control over their networks.

Best practices security deployment of an antivirus solution includes desktop, server, and gateway antivirus checking. PGP Corporation recommends employing antivirus checking at the first point of decryption in a PGP Universal Server deployment. If deploying only PGP Universal Server External Mode, perform a gateway antivirus scan immediately after PGP Universal External Mode decryption of inbound messages. If deploying PGP Universal Server Internal mode, perform desktop antivirus scans immediately after PGP Universal Server decryption. In general, PGP Corporation recommends antivirus scanning technology be deployed on as many points of your network as permitted to derive maximum functionality from the PGP Universal deployment.

To contact this PGP Alliance Partner, email sophos at pgp dot com or visit its website at www.sophos.com.