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SevenC – The best cybersecurity solutions for South African businesses

 ·3 Feb 2025

SevenC is an ICT solutions provider that offers world-class cybersecurity tools to protect your business against cybercrime.
These tools are essential given the constant evolution of the digital landscape, where malicious actors continue to improve their attack strategies.

One of SevenC’s most popular cybersecurity brands is Sophos – whose solutions are designed to help companies prevent, detect, and combat the most advanced malicious activity.
We unpack the world-class Sophos cybersecurity solutions offered by SevenC, below.

Expert tools

The Sophos XG series appliances sit at the core of SevenC’s Sophos cybersecurity offerings.

This hardware connects directly to your business network and all network traffic runs through it.

It is available as a desktop appliance for smaller businesses and branches, as well as in 1U and 2U rackmount form factors for larger organisations.

The core software used by the XG series to protect your business is the Sophos XG Firewall – an industry-leading system that is unmatched in its ability to identify and respond to high-risk activities and malicious threats.

It’s capabilities are then streamlined and enhanced by the impressive Xstream architecture embedded into the Sophos XG appliances.

XStream offers innovative features like a high-speed Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine which performs advanced antivirus, intrusion prevention, web and app control, and TLS inspection – all without a proxy slowing down your traffic.

Sophos Xstream Network Flow FastPath is another valuable feature available to SevenC clients. It performs automatic and policy-based intelligent offloading of trusted traffic processing at wire speed.

Alongside its XStream features, the Sophos XG Firewall can be customised further to suit your company’s unique needs by adding dedicated protection modules.

These modules each offer additional benefits to the Sophos XG Firewall and include:

  • Security Heartbeat – Creates a link between your endpoints and your firewall to identify and respond to threats faster.
  • Application Control and QoS – Enables user-aware visibility and control over thousands of applications with granular policy and traffic-shaping (QoS) options.
  • Integrated Message Transfer Agent – Allows the firewall to automatically queue mail if servers become unavailable.
  • Live Anti-Spam – Protection against spam campaigns, phishing attacks, and malicious attachments.

Sophos Endpoint Protection – powered by Intercept X – complements these modules by integrating reliable technology like malicious traffic detection directly into your endpoints.

This ensures you can block attacks before they damage your key IT infrastructure using a combination of deep learning AI, anti-ransomware capabilities, and exploit prevention.

Sophos Central rounds out the comprehensive suite of cybersecurity solutions by providing an easy-to-manage control interface through a centralised hub.

This “single pane of glass” approach gives you full visibility of all your Sophos solutions and features, and makes managing them quick and easy.

Click here to learn more about SevenC’s Sophos cybersecurity solutions.

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