July 2016

Back in April we announced the release of Sophos Central (previously Sophos Cloud) with its all-new integrated management platform. This marked a major step forward in simplifying security management in an industry that has been increasingly trending toward complicated point products. We’ve been steadfast in our belief that powerful, feature-filled, and industry-leading security should be […]

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks make headlines when they are 1) large enough to cripple a website and 2) the affected website belongs to a recognizable organization. For example, we’ve seen news stories about attacks on websites with many users (such as PlayStation, a gaming website) or websites that serve a critical function (such

At Sophos, we’re committed to taking a fresh approach to complex problems. In November, we announced synchronized security: no longer does security mean making sense of piecemeal tools and reacting to alerts. With synchronized security, your security solutions communicate with each other both across the network and on endpoints to mitigate risks and stop data

Corero polled over 100 IT security professionals at Infosecurity Europe 2016 in London last month, and the survey shows that UK businesses are not only worried about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, they want better DDoS protection from Internet Service Providers. Over three quarters (80%) of the IT security professionals polled believe that their

As a security vendor, we’re often asked, “What about Sophos Antivirus for iPhones and iPads?” We’d love to oblige, but Apple’s iOS development model doesn’t allow the sort of interaction with the operating system that we’d need to build an effective anti-virus program. In particular, to qualify for the App Store, an app is limited

The UK team were asked recently to provide some comment for a well-known IT Security website around how SIEM can provide a return on investment. It’s an interesting topic, especially since we think that the answer is “Quite easily!”. But it set us thinking as well because the question was actually phrased thus; “How do

You may be wondering how SG UTM fits in with this new Synchronized Security era we’re entering. The answer is: very well! It’s already got some great Synchronized Security-like integration built-in, and it’s a great platform to start your Synchronized Security journey. SG UTM, Endpoint and SMC integration As you probably know, SG UTM has

The hacktivist collective called Anonymous has brought cybersecurity to the forefront again, as it continues to strike at some of the world’s leading banks and financial organizations with its OpIcarus distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack campaign. Last week Anonymous shut down the London Stock Exchange for two hours. Coincidentally during the same week, HelpNetSecurity

For the 11th time in a row, Sophos Mobile Security has received a perfect 100% protection score in the May 2016 edition of AV-TEST’s “The best antivirus software for Android” comparison, after successfully detecting all of the 3,300+ samples used. We also scored 6.0 out of 6.0 for “usability,” which includes both performance and false

Many IT managers have come to regard SSL VPN as a mere commodity technology – needed to provide secure access to network resources for remote and mobile workers, but about as exciting as plain oatmeal. Of course, securing remote access is the primary function of an SSL VPN appliance. However, just as network and security