September 2015

We’re excited to announce that the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management is out, and Sophos is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for the fourth year in a row. We’re now one of only three vendors in the Leaders Quadrant. And we think that says a lot about our standing in the eyes of customers, […]

As I write this, I’m working on a company laptop from my home. Earlier today, I was working from a Starbucks. I’m glad Sophos allows me to telecommute on occasion, but it does bring up some common security concerns. With employee work arrangements growing more flexible, devices and data are leaving the safe confines of

LogPoint is very proud to announce that we have achieved the Common Criteria (CC) certification at the evaluation assurance level (EAL) 3+ level for the LogPoint SIEM product. CommonCriteria The journey towards the certification started when LogPoint entered into a strategic partnership with The Boeing Company in late 2013. With the security and certification expertise

We started our firewall revolution last month with the launch of the Project Copernicus beta. Project Copernicus is the codename for our new firewall platform that combines the award-winning SG Series appliance with an all-new operating system based on the best of Sophos and Cyberoam technology. The feedback during the early stages of the beta has been

According to the 7th (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS), 2015, the following security concerns are considered to be the most critical: Application Vulnerabilities Malware Configuration Mistakes / Oversights Mobile Devices Hackers Faulty Network / System Configuration Internal Employees Cloud-Based Services Cyber Terrorism Trusted Third Parties This list is the result of a global

The new Sophos Cloud Partner Dashboard delivers on the Sophos Galileo vision for connecting both Network and Endpoint, all while giving partners increased visibility to their business. Designed exclusively for Sophos channel partners, the Sophos Cloud Partner Dashboard provides unified management tools to remotely manage and service both Sophos Cloud accounts and Copernicus firewalls. Actionable

The passing of the one-year anniversary of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability – and a recent rash of highly exploitable vulnerabilities with names of lesser cachet – led me to wonder: Just how frequently are OpenSSL vulnerabilities reported, and what are their impacts? While Array has developed our own proprietary SSL stack for production traffic, we

For most organisations the drive to capture log data is compliance. There are a few exceptions of course, but for most of you this simply means capturing and storing log data. But why do just that? Doesn’t that seem kind of pointless? If you’ve got to do that then shouldn’t you at least get something

With the proliferation of data and the need to access it from anywhere at any time, encryption is rapidly emerging as the best place to start your data security strategy. Despite some common ideas about encryption that it is too complicated to implement or too much of a hassle to manage, that’s not the case with

SophosLabs researcher Gabor Szappanos is at it again, with new research exploring and explaining the mechanics of a malware creation kit that was used in a series of campaigns between May and August 2015. Gabor has been tracking the development of malware used in advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns over the past couple of years,