June 2016

Telecoms and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are constantly making investments to expand or enhance their infrastructure, and to drive customer growth. Their market is structured in a way that forces them to do so, as a means of driving revenues and maintaining their position in the provider food chain. Retaining and growing accounts for existing […]

Back in March, we wrote about how cybercriminals are using previously-unknown malware to avoid detection from traditional security products. While conventional anti-malware protection is vital as a first line of defense, organizations need additional ways to combat today’s targeted, unknown malware. Unfortunately, many next-generation solutions designed to deal with these kinds of threats are too

Everyone knows that traditional antivirus isn’t enough to stop today’s advanced threats, so endpoint security vendors are hoping you’ll consider their “next-gen” solutions. But what exactly does “next-gen” mean, and what capabilities should you expect? At Sophos, we believe next-gen endpoint protection means an integrated system of technologies that protect against all stages of an

We’re pleased that Gartner has named Sophos a visionary in the Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites*, for the third year in a row. We think this validates Sophos Mobile Control as one of the best mobile management and security products on the market today. We believe we improved our position in

Nearly every day there is news about a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on some major organization, whether it’s a bank or a government agency.  Many other organizations experience DDoS attacks on a daily basis, but those attacks don’t make headline news. It’s an alarming situation, globally. In a recent survey of IT security

Sophos UTM has added to our collection of industry awards, after being recognized as the Best UTM Solution at the SC Magazine Awards 2016 Europe, held earlier this week in London. As the editor-in-chief of SC Magazine points out, these awards are designed to recognize the leading players in the industry and to encourage and

A new version of a deceptive banking malware has been responsible for a series of attacks on financial institutions in many countries around the world in the past year, SophosLabs reports in a new research paper. Vawtrak (also known as NeverQuest and Snifula) has been around for a few years now, yet it continues to

It’s a challenge for network security professionals to detect, never mind block, every intrusion. What’s troubling is how much time it can take for an organization to realize that its network security system has been breached. In its latest report on cyber security trends, “M-Trends 2016,” FireEye found that it took a median of 146

For IT security teams, it’s nearly impossible to keep up with the ever-changing cyber threat landscape; not only are there are numerous types of threats, but some attacks are so small in scale that they often escape human detection. Large-scale, volumetric DDoS attacks may cripple websites and grab headlines, but small-scale, low-threshold attacks can be