April 2015

Back in the day, network speed and throughput were limiting factors for the overall productivity of an organization. Gigabit Ethernet came onto the scene in 1999, and offered a quantum leap in performance over previous connectivity standards. 10GbE was approved by IEEE in 2002, and slowly gained more widespread deployment as the switch vendors and […]

Sophos makes enterprise-grade security that works for small and mid-sized businesses. Providing sophisticated protection with simple management, Sophos Endpoint Protection is ideal for under-resourced organizations. Sophos Endpoint Protection also offers flexibility. You choose management in the cloud, or on premise—whichever best suits your business. Here are a few of examples demonstrating how real Sophos customers

As much as we complain about email as an annoyance, a distraction, and a productivity killer, we depend on it for vital business and personal communications. We might hate email, but we’d probably be lost without it. What many people don’t realize is that email is quite old as a technology, and it’s very insecure.

Sophos announced the availability of Sophos Mobile Control 5, which redefines how organizations secure mobile devices by focusing on users and the way they work. By securing devices, content, and applications with a user-centric approach, Sophos Mobile Control 5 (SMC 5) makes compliance with corporate security policy simple for both administrator and end users across iOS 8,

Sophos announced the availability of Sophos Mobile Control 5 (SMC 5), to further simplify mobile device management by setting security and data policy by user, across all three major mobile platforms in one solution. New management options enable an administrator to easily achieve the separation and encryption of personal and corporate information, as well as

Who will cybercriminals target next? James Lyne, Sophos global head of security research, says gangs are creating new ways to attack ever more victims, and improving on the old ways to make more money.  In a new video from the Wall Street Journal, James sounds off on recent and emerging trends in cybercrime, and talks about

There’s been a bit of buzz in the normally sedate SSL VPN market lately, with Juniper divesting its flagship Junos Pulse (a.k.a. MAG Series or SA Series) SSL VPN product line to Siris Capital – which in turn rolled out a new company to develop and sell the product line. This big change has caused

Every day businesses are creating and accumulating data they need to protect from loss. Of course it’s absolutely vital to prevent data from getting out of your organization – but are you sure you can get it back if you do lose it? The growing threat of ransomware like CryptoLocker and CryptoWall in the past couple

As organizations around the globe become more-and-more reliant on the Internet, a serious weakness has begun to emerge in our connected world.   Since its inception, the Internet has been all about availability; when the Internet goes down, businesses that rely on that availability go down with it. DDoS attacks are single handedly the most

There has been a flurry of DDoS reports from DDoS protection vendors as of late, and Corero has thrown its hat in the ring as well. The recently released Corero DDoS Trends and Analysis report offers a unique perspective of the growing DDoS threat; offering a stark contrast to the majority of the reports saturating the