March 2016

Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, announced today that its Sophos SG Series UTM won the Excellence Award in the Best UTM Security Solution category at the SC Awards 2016. The award was presented during the 19th annual SC Awards Gala on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. “We are delighted that Sophos SG […]

Malvertising is short for “malicious online advertising”, and it’s a pernicious problem. Simply put, it’s a way for crooks to infect innocent visitors via your website, to poison your website’s online reputation, and to trash your brand… …without going anywhere near your servers, and without tripping any alarms on your own network. All the crooks

Today, every business is mobile. Across enterprises of all sizes, everyone from entrepreneurs and executives to knowledge workers needs to get online and access business data and files using smartphones, laptops and tablets. Employees using their personal devices to access corporate applications and data can put their organizations at risk when they lose or misuse

With 95% of targeted attacks beginning with an email, your secure email gateway is vitally important as your first line of defense. Attackers are more frequently using previously-unknown malware to evade traditional protection. While conventional anti-malware protection is still essential as a first line of defense, organizations need additional tools to combat today’s targeted, unknown

With 95% of targeted attacks beginning with an email, your secure email gateway is vitally important as your first line of defense. Attackers are more frequently using previously-unknown malware to evade traditional protection. While conventional anti-malware protection is still essential as a first line of defense, organizations need additional tools to combat today’s targeted, unknown

Sophos Home, our free security solution for the whole family, has been available for a few months now, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. The home IT heroes and professional sysadmins who’ve tried Sophos Home have been “very impressed,” with some saying it’s “amazing” that we’re giving everyone a commercial-grade security product for free.

The Internet of Things (or IoT for short) is rapidly expanding to include an unprecedented number of connected devices. All the smart things coming online need to be secured, but sadly, security seems to be low on the list of priorities for IoT manufacturers and developers. There’s a very broad array of consumer and industrial applications

Sophos, is pleased to announce the first maintenance release for XG Firewall, with a number of important fixes to improve the operation of your firewall. We also wanted to take this opportunity to outline our release notes strategy for future firewall and UTM releases. For major feature releases, Sophos will continue to publish notifications here