Sophos Announces SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50

Sophos has announced the release of version 5.50 of Sophos SafeGuard Easy and Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise, the industry’s first and only data protection product line designed to address the broadest array of customer requirements, implementation options and long-term data protection plans.

This latest advancement furthers Sophos’s commitment to provide customers with a new approach to comprehensive security and data protection that reduces cost and complexity.

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50 is ideal for customers who are most concerned with the breadth of Sophos’s central policy management capabilities and the ability to secure desktops, laptops, removable media and other portable devices. The SafeGuard Enterprise engine complies with most recent standards and modern platforms to optimally support current and future needs of enterprise customers in securing their infrastructure.

Leading the Industry in Lowest TCO
The new versions of Sophos SafeGuard solutions introduce several new capabilities that ultimately aim to further reduce the customer’s TCO, such as—

Forgotten full disk encryption passwords can now be securely recovered with the Local Self Help functionality.  Users simply answer questions they created during the initial enrollment to retrieve their password - bypassing the help desk completely, with the added benefit of lowering help desk costs.

New Server Installation Wizard enables administrators to install the Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise server and client components, and required Microsoft server components, faster with accurate configuration settings.

Administrator Accounts enhancements allow administrators to audit and perform essential tasks on PCs during encryption rollouts. Managing security officer roles and groups has also been made easier especially for large deployments.

New administrator access options and updated policy controls provide a variety of deployment alternatives for both centrally- and non-centrally managed environments- from a few PCs in remote offices to over 100,000 PCs including those in service provider type deployments. IT administrators can easily rollout encryption across heterogeneous environments ensuring users are protected at all times regardless of their location.

The latest Sophos SafeGuard solutions fully support Windows 7 64-bit support - including Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise modules — Device Encryption, Partner Connect, and Management Center. SafeGuard Enterprise Management Center and Server also support Windows Server 2008R2 (64-bit).