Free Sophos Endpoint Assessment Free Online Test

April 14, 2009 by admin  
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  • Free scan to assess your security
  • Find out if you’re missing OS patches
  • Discover if your security applications are up to date and active

Is your computer putting your organization’s security at risk?

The Endpoint Assessment Test is a free tool that scans a computer and assesses whether it is a security risk to your organization. A single scan checks that:

  • your Microsoft service pack is the current one for your operating system
  • your Microsoft patches are all up to date
  • anti-virus protection is installed, running and current
  • a personal firewall is installed and running

The Endpoint Assessment Test checks for over 600 patches, 28 anti-virus applications, and 22 firewall applications. It uses the Sophos ActiveX dissolvable agent to scan in passive “report-only” mode. Once the scan is done, the agent presents the results.

Test results show 81% of corporate endpoints failed a basic check

We ran a 40-day test, collecting information from over 580 PCs worldwide. The results showed that 81% of the corporate endpoints tested failed one or more basic checks. Of all the computers tested:

  • 63% were missing at least one Microsoft security patch
  • 51% of endpoints tested had disabled client firewalls
  • 15% had out-of-date or disabled endpoint security software

[ Download Sophos Endpoint Assessment Online Test ]


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