Sophos provides Anti-Virus Protection to Juniper Gateways

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Sophos provides Anti-Virus Protection to Juniper Gateways

To protect customers proactively from viruses, spyware, and Trojans, Juniper Networks has integrated Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware into its Networks SRX Series Services Gateways for the Branch. The integration will be available with the Junos operating system 11.1 release, Q1 2011.

Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware draws from up-to-date intelligence from SophosLabs, a global network of threat analysis centers, through cloud look-ups of URLs and checksums that deliver effective protection against real world threats, including traditional viruses and infected Websites, with minimal impact on unified threat management (UTM) performance such as CPU, memory, and storage.

Michael Rogers, Vice President, Global Alliances and OEM, Sophos said, "security landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, which makes it more challenging than ever before for businesses to protect against these increasingly sophisticated threats. With the integration of Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware intelligence, Juniper customers will benefit from an extended layer of security."

Karim Toubba, Vice President, Product Market and Strategy, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks said, "We are pleased to partner with Sophos to provide our customers a cloud-based anti-virus option for Juniper's SRX Series Services Gateways for the Branch. The Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware service provides customers a solution that is seamlessly integrated with the SRX Series, continuously protecting customers from viruses, spyware and Trojans."

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