Sophos Anti-virus software

Apex implements a variety of anti-virus solutions but recommends the Sophos suite of products to ensure complete protection against viruses, spyware, adware, Trojans, intrusion, spam, and policy abuse.

Sophos is the world leader in integrated threat management solutions purpose-built for business, education, government and service providers. The reliably engineered, easy-to-operate products protect over 35 million users in more than 150 countries.

With 20 years' experience and consolidated anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam expertise, Sophos respond rapidly to emerging threats, no matter how complex they are.  Matched by business-focused, 24/7 technical support, their instant response to new threats has led to the highest levels of customer satisfaction in the industry.

With worldwide visibility of emerging threats, SophosLabs™ - their global network of high-security threat research centres - carry out 24-hour analysis to provide proactive, effective protection from any new virus, spyware or spam threat anywhere in the world, irrespective of origin.

Apex offers the range of Sophos Security Solutions from enterprise level to small business specialist solutions.  We have helped customers from many different industries to protect their Windows infrastructures.

Websense

Apex chooses Websense security solutions to enable our customers to manage how employees use their computing resources to strengthen security, optimise employee productivity, conserve network resources and mitigate against legal liability.

Websense delivers flexible, integrated policy enforcement at the internet gateway, on the network and at the desktop, protecting organisations from emerging threats including peer-to-peer networking, spyware, and worms.

Their products integrate with a wide range of industry leading security and network products including firewalls, proxy servers, caches, switches, routers, and appliances, e.g. Microsoft ISA Server.  Websense products have been thoroughly tested and certified to work seamlessly with all major security and network products.

Websense has 24.1 million seats under subscription worldwide across all industries, in small organisations and large multinational corporations.

Websense can help your organisation:

• Protect against legal liability issues.
• Preserve network bandwidth by limiting Internet to work or study related usage.
• Increase employee productivity.
• Reduce risk of security breaches by preventing connection to known insecure sites.

Clearswift

To add the extra layer of security, Apex offers the Clearswift suite of solutions.

Clearswift helps organisations enforce best-practice email and web use, ensuring all traffic complies with internal policy and external regulations.

The range of content filtering solutions makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain no-compromise email and web security for both inbound and outbound traffic.

The two platforms (software deployed and the appliance) are designed to take the hassle out of securing internet traffic, with a clear, intuitive management interface; automatic, ‘zero-touch’ updates; powerful reporting and common-sense policy management.

Apex has deployed the Mimesweeper products to customers from a variety of industry sectors to protect these their organisations from Internet based security threats.  Clearswift products integrate with other anti-virus software platforms, e.g. Sophos anti-virus in order to scan and protect e-mail content and attachments.