Synchronized Network Security Protection Sophos Central allows you to manage our award-winning Synchronized Security network platform. Advanced attacks are more coordinated than ever before. Now, your defenses are too. Receive Training As a Sophos Customer, you can attend our courses and webinars to stay up to date. Professional Services You’ve invested a lot of resources to get the best IT security — make the most of it. Become Certified As a Partner, you can become a Certified Engineer, Architect, or Sales Consultant. Without Proxy permission, Web Protection cannot function. During install or after upgrade to Big Sur (With Sophos Endpoint installed), a prompt will display to allow the System Extensions for SophosScanD and SophosWebNetworkExtension. Click ' Open Security Preferences.'
Anti-Virus software is vital to help keep both University computers and your own personal computer secure. Sophos Anti-Virus software is the UW’s preferred choice for UW faculty, staff and students. The Sophos product suite includes stand-alone and managed anti-virus clients for all current (and many older) versions of Windows and Mac OS, and most of the popular UNIX and Linux distributions. It also provides apps for both Android and iOS based mobile devices.
Get Sophos
Sophos Anti-Virus protection is available to UW faculty, staff, students and departments. Which version of Sophos you download depends on the ownership of your computer. Choose the appropriate option:
UW-owned computers
Sophos Protection Free Download
The UW Sophos license allows UW students, faculty, and staff to download the UW’s Sophos software on University-owned computers, servers, and workstations. The software can be installed on unlimited UW-owned computers at no cost.
Get Sophos for UW-owned computers:
Note: Sophos Antivirus is now compatible with Mac OS 11 (Big Sur). You can now update your Mac OS to Big Sur to run on Sophos.
How Good Is Sophos Security
- Download Sophos after agreeing to the terms and conditions.
Your personal computer or device
UW students, faculty, and staff can get Sophos Home Premium for free on their personal computers and devices. To get Sophos Home Premium, enter your UW email address on the page linked below. You will receive an email with a coupon code and a link to register for your license and download Sophos Home Premium. You can also download basic Sophos Home instead.
Get Sophos Home Premium for your personal computer or device:
Get basic Sophos Home instead:
Departmental IT
Sophos Central, a web-based Enterprise Console, is available to UW departmental IT and system administrators to install and manage Sophos Endpoint Protection suite on their departmental computers.
Get Sophos Central:
License Details
The UW Sophos license grants faculty and staff at UW the rights to use the software on UW owned computers, servers, and workstations.
- There is no charge for the software.
- UW-IT administers this site license.
Sophos Home Premium (or “Sophos Home Commercial Use Edition”) is provided courtesy of Sophos to students, faculty, and staff. With an affiliated UW email address, users can get Sophos Home Premium at no cost for their personal computers and devices. This offer may end at any time and without warning. If that happens, please switch to the basic version of Sophos Home. UW employees or students interested in participating in this offer should go to Sophos Home Download Page, agree to the terms, and use their @uw.edu or @u.washington.edu email address to request a coupon code. Sophos will then send an email to that UW address with a coupon code and instructions on next steps. The UW email address is only required for receiving the coupon code–UW users are then welcome to use any email address they choose for registering their account with Sophos.
The Sophos Home Premium software listed below is for use on your personal computer and should not be installed on the UW-owned equipment. Once you have separated from the UW, you must remove the software from your computer.
Sophos Antivirus for home Windows and Macintosh computers provides the same level of protection as the UW licensed package does. The application can be installed on up to three computers. After free registration, you will get a web portal where you can monitor your devices and act on detected issues when needed. Sophos provides free Linux antivirus software. Sophos Antivirus for Linux
More information is available from Sophos:
Documentation and support
Online documentation and support
Need help?
Contact UW-IT at help@uw.edu or call 206-221-5000.
Sophos Live Protection uses in-the-cloud technology to instantly decide whether a suspicious file is a threat and take action specified in the anti-virus and HIPS policy.
Live Protection improves detection of new malware without the risk of unwanted detections. This is achieved by doing an instant lookup against the very latest known malicious files. When new malware is identified, Sophos can send out updates within seconds.
To take full advantage of Live Protection, you must ensure that the following options are enabled.
Enable Live Protection: If on-access scanning on an endpoint computer has identified a file as suspicious, but cannot further identify it as either clean or malicious based on the threat identity (IDE) files stored on the computer, certain file characteristics such as checksum are sent to Sophos to assist with further analysis. The in-the-cloud checking performs an instant lookup of a suspicious file in the SophosLabs database. If the file is identified as clean or malicious, the decision is sent back to the computer and the status of the file is automatically updated.
Update mac os 10.14. Enable Live Protection for on-demand scanning: If you want on-demand scans to use the same in-the-cloud checking as on-access scanning, select this option.
Automatically send file samples to Sophos: If a file is deemed potentially malicious but cannot be positively identified as malicious based on its characteristics alone, Live Protection allows Sophos to request a sample of the file. When Live Protection is enabled, if this option is enabled and Sophos does not already hold a sample of the file, the file is submitted automatically. Submission of such sample files helps Sophos to continuously enhance detection of malware without the risk of false positives.
Sophos Protection Review
You must ensure that Sophos domain to which the file data is sent is trusted in your web filtering solution. For details, see support knowledgebase article 62637 (http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/62637.aspx).
If you use a Sophos web filtering solution, for example the WS1000 Web Appliance, you do not need to do anything - Sophos domains are already trusted.