Installing Sophos Home on M1 (Silicon) Apple computers (ARM) Installing Sophos Home on Mac computers; Legacy System Extension - Existing software on your system signed by 'Sophos' will be incompatible in the future; Sophos Home - Using beta versions of macOS; macOS 10.14 and above - Sophos Installer would like to access your calendar / contacts. Sophos Home for Mac Antivirus - Free Download. Includes a 30 day trial of Sophos Home for Mac Premium, with advanced ransomware scanning in real time. For a new installation of Sophos on a Mac, Sophos needs to be allowed in the General tab of the Security & Privacy window. If Sophos needs to be re-installed on the same Mac, the process of allowing Sophos no longer needs to be repeated since the same allow process will be retained by the operating system. If installing via Apple Remote Desktop with UNIX commands, the command needs to be altered slightly sudo './Sophos Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/InstallationDeployer' -install The customer will be prompted for the password of the account that is currently logged in.
As a security vendor, we’re often asked, “What about Sophos Antivirus for iPhones and iPads?”
We’d love to oblige, but Apple’s iOS development model doesn’t allow the sort of interaction with the operating system that we’d need to build an effective anti-virus program.
In particular, to qualify for the App Store, an app is limited to its own sandbox, where it isn’t supposed to be able to read or interfere with other apps, or to sidestep Apple’s commercial controls.
That makes it impossible for an anti-virus to analyse other apps, or to hook into the operating system itself to scan files after they are downloaded but before they are used.
In other words, even trusted vendors can’t publish apps that do what you’d expect from an anti-virus – not unless you jailbreak your phone, which opens up a whole heap of security risks on its own.
The silver lining, however, is that Apple’s strict walled garden approach has made it much harder to sneak malware onto iPhones and iPads, so Apple devices have experienced a minuscule fraction of the malware troubles that have beset the Android ecosystem.
Of course, no walled garden is perfectly secure against attackers, and Apple regularly issues iOS updates to close off software vulnerabilities to help keep the bad guys out.
This means that keeping your device up-to-date with the latest iOS version is an important part of staying secure.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that checks and explains why you should upgrade? Especially if it told you what you needed to know without having to wade through pages of technical documentation and security advisories…
The latest addition to our great range of free tools, Sophos Mobile Security for iOS, does just that, and more:
- OS Advisor alerts you when you are behind in your updates. The Advisor provides details about the new OS version and explains the security benefits of upgrading.
- Authenticator manages one-time passwords for two-factor authentication (2FA), also known as two-step verification, so you can login more securely to Google, Facebook, Amazon and many more.
- Secure QR Code Scanner blocks malicious content that may be lurking in QR codes, flagging any issues before you visit the page or content and give away data to the wrong guys.
Sophos Apple Configurator
Why not check out Sophos Mobile Security for iOS yourself? Go to our free tools page to download the app today.