October 2015

If you’ve been following Project Copernicus, you know that it’s our revolutionary new firewall platform that’s been in beta for the last couple of months. Today, we’re pleased to announce that our brand new centralized management platform for Copernicus firewalls is now available for beta. Sophos Firewall Manager (or SFM for short) provides powerful centralized […]

The malware ecosystem is a complex environment. Criminals must acquire victims, develop scams and figure out the most effective way to turn that activity into cash. Most Internet crimes are opportunistic, meaning that online attacks are best operated as a high-volume business. The keys to profitability are the ability to exploit a high percentage of

If 2014 was the year of the data breach, then 2015 must be the 2.0 version. And after every new breach, (a few of the bigger ones this year: the “human resources department” of the US government, and the adultery site Ashley Madison) there’s a lot of hand-wringing and teeth gnashing about the state of

Balancing the dissimilar needs of network security and employee productivity has long been a conundrum for IT professionals. Network threats, from malware to malicious attackers to data leakage, continue to grow unabated as criminals mine for sensitive business data that can be converted to cold hard cash. Meanwhile, employees are becoming ever more mobile, with

Corporate end users (including you and me) are super productive when we use multiple devices – laptops, tablets, smartphones – so we can keep working wherever, whenever. These devices are convenient and portable, allowing us to connect from coffee shops, airports, hotels and at home. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the fact that it

We’ve recently talked about some of the main reasons why you need to encrypt your data. And we showed you the potential consequences when your data isn’t encrypted. So now that you’re ready to look more closely at encryption in your organization, where should you begin? Every organization is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all

Most CSP’s and Mobile Carriers have deployed some form of DDoS scrubbing complex in their network to clean large, long duration DDoS attacks. While this is a necessary first step in proactively working to defeat the DDoS challenge, the threat landscape is constantly changing and requires a more modern approach to protection. Based on recent

Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security solutions, announced enhancements to its leading Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution designed for organizations of all sizes using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Sophos UTM 9 features Auto Scaling technology to ensure a user’s security layer scales to match application needs without affecting performance. Sophos UTM 9

We’ve been saying it for years: simple security is better security. We design our products with the IT professional in mind, and the result of our efforts is the most usable security products on the market. You don’t have to take my word for it: independent testing house Tolly has just published a report comparing

Security is really all about your endusers. And that’s a problem, because when one user does something wrong, it has the potential to bring down the whole company. Security companies have been trying to deal with the user problem for decades, but they’ve been going about it the wrong way. The way most security vendors