The combination of Mi5's powerful S2 Streaming Inspection engine with Sophos' high performance scanning technology lets you perform deep inspection of files coming into your organization from the web, without adding separate file scanning appliances or slowing browsing performance.

Mi5’s Anti-Virus Module combines multiple detection methods (Pattern Matching, Emulation Technology and Advanced Heuristic Techniques) to give the deepest protection against the widest variety of viruses. 

Proven Virus Protection

Mi5's Virus Protection module is powered by Sophos, a company with over 20 years experience serving over 100 million customers in over 150 countries.  Sophos' award-winning protection against both known and unknown malware threats is provided by skilled analysts located in labs around the world, and their rapid response to new threats has led to the highest levels of customer satisfaction in the industry.  Sophos combines their ability to be the first to deliver signature threat detection, with Genotype™ virus detection technology to manage zero-day threats.   Sophos was awarded the VB 100% award recently for the 27th time, for 100% detection of all of the in the wild, macro and polymorphic viruses with no false positives.

During the scanning process, the Sophos engine identifies the type of file, and then applies the relevant technique(s), including:

Pattern Matching - which can identify a virus by a specific code sequence.  These patterns are created to ensure the engine not only catches the original virus, but also derivatives within the same virus family.

Emulation - which can detect polymorphic viruses as well as viruses contained within multi-layer attachments.

Advanced Heuristics - which are based on behavioral Genotype technology, and are used to ensure that variants of viruses are detected, even when minimal pattern information is available.

Rich, Built-In Reporting

Mi5’s built-in reporting system comes with dozens of pre-packaged reports and comprehensive custom report and alert functionality.  Easily see what viruses have been blocked, and where the most popular sources of infection are.  Alerts can be set up for events, and any report can be delivered on a schedule you define.

Accurate User and PC Identification

In addition to supporting reverse DNS and NETBIOS lookup, Mi5 provides full, real-time integration with LDAP, Active Directory and Domain Controller servers, so you know exactly who was protected and who is infected.  No longer do you have to do reverse lookups from stale IP addresses or just guess that the user logged into a PC was the same as the PC owner.