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Something I’ve found partners are often unaware of, but when shown see great value in, are the new file encryption features available in Sophos Central Device Encryption.

Jan 20 2020 By

The following was written by Peter Craig, Sales Engineer Ireland and Channel Islands at Sophos.

Something I’ve found partners are often unaware of, but when shown see great value in, are the new file encryption features available in Sophos Central Device Encryption (CDE).

By enabling simple secure document sharing, your customers users can encrypt Outlook attachments and documents before sharing them with internal or external colleagues – all included as part of their existing CDE license.

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You can enable these features in the encryption policies. Using Enable right-click context menu puts the Create password-protected file option in the right-click menu of files. Files are wrapped in a new HTML file with encrypted content.

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Recipients can open the file by double-clicking it and entering the password. They can send the received file back and protect it with the same password or a new one, or they can create a new password-protected file, even without Sophos CDE installed.

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Enabling the Outlook Add-In adds encrypting email attachments to Outlook. Users can protect attachments by selecting Protect Attachments on the Outlook ribbon. Again, all unprotected attachments are wrapped in a new HTML attachment with encrypted content and the email is sent.

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Additionally, you can choose Always ask how to proceed with attached files.

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If you activate this option, users are prompted to choose how to send attachments whenever the message contains one. They can send these attachments password protected or unprotected.

You can also enter excluded domains for which the Always ask how to proceed with attached files option does not apply. For example, this can be the domain of your organization. If recipients belong to this domain, the senders are not asked how they want to handle attachments.

Get simple, secure document sharing with Sophos Central Device Encryption.

About the Author

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.