Sophos WS500 Web Appliance
Complete Web Protection Everywhere

Features:

Dedicated or Unified

With Sophos, you have your choice of a dedicated purpose-built web appliance, or a secure web gateway integrated into your UTM.

Our Sophos Web Appliance is ideal if you want an appliance dedicated to web security with streamlined workflow and policy tools. However, if you’re interested in consolidating your network security into a single appliance, our UTM with integrated web protection is for you.

Both offer all the great features below, including our unique Web and Endpoint integration to provide complete web protection everywhere.

• Web Appliance Datasheet
• UTM Web Protection Datasheet

Advanced Threat Protection

With our Secure Web Gateway, you get the most advanced web threat protection:

• Our high-performance web malware engine inspects all web traffic in real-time
• Advanced techniques like JavaScript emulation block the latest web threats before they reach the browser
• SophosLabs continuously updates our threat intelligence via the cloud, keeping you ahead of new and emerging threats

Real-Time Reputation Filtering

SophosLabs identifies over 30,000 newly infected websites daily. You’re protected from all of them.

Real-time reputation filtering protects you from newly infected websites as soon as they come online. We do this using our ever-growing, cloud-hosted database of malicious sites.

Customizable Web Filtering

Select from billions of sites in 56 categories to create safe web browsing policies. You can minimize legal concerns around inappropriate content and maximize productivity.

You can set policy by users and time, using a variety of authentication options including IP Address, Active Directory SSO, eDirectory SSO and LDAP.

Dynamic App Control

With our UTM web protection, you get complete control to block, allow, shape and prioritize web applications like file sharing, IM clients, streaming media and games.

Deep Layer-7 inspection identifies over 900 applications. And, you'll get feedback on unclassified applications too.

Monitor your web traffic in real time. In just a couple clicks you can maximize the bandwidth for what’s important, and minimize it for what’s not. For example, you can control YouTube and Facebook while accelerating Salesforce.

Protection Everywhere

Our endpoint protection integrates with both our Sophos Web Appliances and UTMs, providing a unique and elegant solution for protection everywhere.

We’ve integrated the full power of our web protection into our endpoints. When users leave the office, they’re fully protected on the web without having to backhaul or use a VPN to get online safely.

Policy and reporting syncs through the cloud, so it’s like they never left.

Simple Management

At Sophos, simplicity is our mantra. You’ll have complete control over all the security features you need all in one place, with none of the complexity.

We've invested heavily in streamlining our interface. This way you won't have to reach for the manual every time you need to update a policy or change a setting. So you're never more than a couple clicks from completing your task.

Complete On-Box Reporting

Our built-in reporting means you’ll know exactly what's happening with your users. Fix problems fast and shape your policies, keeping your users secure while boosting network performance. And, you get detailed reports as standard, stored locally with no separate tools required.

At-a-glance flow graphs show usage trends with predefined and customizable reports, providing key web activity. Report anonymization hides user names, requiring the four-eyes-principle to unhide them.

Flexible Deployment

Both our Sophos Web Appliances and UTMs are available as a virtual appliance or in a full range of hardware models to fit any business.

Install your dedicated or UTM secure web gateway as an explicit proxy or in transparent mode with easy Active Directory or eDirectory integration.

Centrally manage multiple Sophos Web Appliances with an optional Sophos Management Appliance for seamless policy replication and aggregate reporting across multiple locations.

Specifications:

We offer both a dedicated and UTM appliance options

Dedicated Sophos Web Appliances

Additional hardware information

• Installation: 1U rack mount
• Regulatory/safety certification: UL, CE, FCC, VCCI, C-Tick, TUV-GS, SABS, RoHS, WEEE
• Hardware warranty: Up to 3-year advance replacement (subject to valid software licensing)
• Certifications: CIPA compliance, Network Testing Labs Award

Virtual Appliance

WVMware requirements

• VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 or 4.x or ESXi 5.x
• VMware Workstation 6.5 or 7.x

Optional Sophos Management Appliance Models

Centralized management and reporting for all your hardware and virtual web appliances. Available in two hardware models or as a virtual appliance.

UTM Appliances

Software appliances run on Intel-compatible PCs and servers.

Sophos UTM Certifications

• Westcoast Labs Checkmark Platinum Product Award
• SC Magazine
• InfoTech Research Group Vendor Landscape Award Champion

Virtual Appliance

Sophos UTM virtual appliances are based on the software equivalent. Sophos UTM is the first unified threat management product to be certified as VMware Ready and Citrix Ready. It also runs in Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM virtual environments.

The virtual appliance can be downloaded from Sophos servers and burned independently on CD. A step-by-step deployment of each security component enables a secure migration path into a completely virtualized environment.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• 1.5+ GHz processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 20 GB hard disk
• Bootable CD-ROM
• 2 or more network cards
• 1 GB RAM
• 40 GB IDE or SCSI hard disk drive
  • 3 PCI-NICs (Internet, Local Net, Demilitarized Zone)

Software Appliance

The Sophos UTM software appliance integrates all security applications with a hardened OS. These are bundled within a self-booting software image for easy deployment on intel-compatible hardware of your choice.

Performance results depend on the selected hardware. Best results are achieved when using hardware specifications at or beyond Intel Dual/Quad-Core CPUs >2GHz, 2GB RAM.

How to Buy:

Three simple steps will get you complete web protection that fits your business:

• Choose Dedicated or Unified
  Choose a dedicated Sophos Web Appliance or Secure Web Gateway protection in our UTM.
• Choose How to Deploy
  Hardware, software, virtual or cloud-based appliance
• Add Sophos Web Protected Endpoints
  Add Endpoint Protection to extend your web protection to offsite users everywhere they go

You can read more about these steps below. And if you need help deciding what’s right for you, simply contact us or find a Sophos partner. We’ll both be happy to help.

Choose Dedicated or Unified

We offer two Secure Web Gateway product lines to best fit your needs.

• Dedicated Sophos Web Appliances

  We offer a full line Sophos Web Appliances that will appeal to the IT Security Manager who wants a purpose-built appliance for web security with streamlined workflow and policy tools that makes administration easy.

  You can choose to buy a Sophos Web Appliance and license Sophos Web Protection alone or as part of a Sophos Security Suite. Both Sophos Enduser Web Suite or Sophos Complete Security Suite include Sophos Web Protection (and you’ll get Endpoint, Mobile, Email, and Encryption too).

• UTM Secure Web Gateway

  We also offer a powerful Secure Web Gateway integrated into our UTM appliances that will appeal to the IT Manager that’s interested in consolidating network security capabilities and managing them with a single console.

  When buying a UTM appliance you get the flexibility to license our protection modules individually. Or, you can choose one of our pre-packaged licenses. For secure web gateway protection, you’ll need to license UTM Web Protection. You can buy this module alone, in combination with other UTM modules or get it as part of the Next-Gen Firewall or FullGuard licenses.

For Secure Web Gateway protection, you’ll need to license UTM Web Protection. You can buy this module alone, in combination with other UTM modules or get it as part of the Next-Gen Firewall or FullGuard licenses.

Choose How to Deploy

Choose the right appliance for your environment-is it hardware, software, virtual or even cloud-based?

• Hardware
  A full range of hardware models are available in both our dedicated and UTM appliance lines that offer full secure web gateway capabilities to fit any business.
• Virtual
  Dedicated Sophos Web Appliances are offered as a scalable VMware virtual appliance and UTM's are certified for use on VMware and Citrix, and also run on Hyper-V and KVM.
• Software
  The Sophos UTM is also offered as a software appliance available as an image you can stall on your Intel-based server hardware of choice.
• Cloud-based appliances
  Using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), you can run your UTM in the cloud. Or, you can use the Amazon VPC connector on the UTM at your office for secure and robust access to your Amazon-hosted resources.

Add Sophos Web in Endpoint Protection

Sophos offers a unique way to extend your secure web gateway protection to your offsite users by integrating web protection into our Endpoint agent for Windows. Available with both our Sophos Web Appliance and UTM Secure Web Gateway solutions, Sophos Endpoints have full web security and control built-in to provide complete protection on the go. They connect through the cloud to your Sophos UTM or Sophos Web Appliance, obtaining the latest web surfing policies while providing up-to-the-minute activity reporting.

To include web protected endpoints with your dedicated Sophos Web Appliance simply choose the Sophos Enduser Web Suite or Sophos Complete Security Suite.

To add web protected endpoints to your UTM Secure Web Gateway, simply add the optional UTM-Endpoint Protection module when purchasing your UTM.

Documentation:

Download the Sophos Web Appliances Data Sheet (PDF).