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Data Protection; Endpoint vs SEA

BopBop

I am working in Data Protection policy for our company. I see from EndPoint I can do the data protection. Also from Sophos Email Appliance I can do the same policy.

My question

1)      Do I need both; Endpoint / SEA for data protection?

2)      What are the difference between Endpoint data protection and Sophos Email appliance data protection?

3)      If I have to choose one the other which one should I choose?

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    Hello BopBop,

    the major difference is quite obvious - the appliance can of course only scan email, whereas with SESC you can also control transfer to removable storage, browser uploads and IM transfers. The SEA additionally offers encryption. I assume that otherwise the underlying technology is identical . 

    Thus the answer on 1) and 3) depends

    Edit: Coincidentally DLP crossed my way this morning and I came to the insight that the SEA has another advantage - it works no matter what OS and mail client is used (this excludes of course webmail).

    Christian 

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    Hi,

    The other main advantage of the email appliance for DLP is that it can scan both attachments and mail body for sensitive data. The endpoint solution will currently only scan email attachments. The ideal of course if to have both... but then I would say that ;)

    Best regards,

    John

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    Thank you both for your reply. It make sense now. I see I will need both ; SESC will do the work I am looking for ; block/ allow data transfer to removal device, But as more and more IPad/ Iphone/ smartphone are synchronizing email with the corporate network we will need  to configure SEA.

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