October 2016

Document exploitation is a well-known method of distributing malware in the malware community. A common theory for why crooks use booby-trapped documents is that victims can be more easily convinced to open document attachments than executables. Word, Excel and PDF documents that contain so-called exploits – active booby-traps – have the added trick of not […]

Make no mistake, your organization is a target – do you have an effective security program in place to detect and contain the damage of an attack? With nearly daily headlines about cyber attacks, it’s imperative that organizations understand the role privileged accounts play in the attack life cycle.  If privileged credentials are not properly

Sophos  today announced it has been positioned as a ‘Leader’ in Forrester Research, Inc.’s new report, The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Security Suites, Q4 2016. Recognizing that Sophos received the highest scores in the Strategy category, Forrester refers to Sophos Endpoint Protection as delivering “the most enterprise-friendly SaaS endpoint security suite.” The report cites that “buyers

We’re pleased to announce the latest release of Sophos Web Appliance 4.3, which adds improved Sophos Sandstorm capabilities and completely updates the underlying Sophos Web Appliance operating system to a new improved kernel. If you’re not familiar with Sophos Sandstorm, it gives your organization an extra layer of security to defend against fast-moving, targeted attacks,

Sophos is the same as any other business – we need to keep our employees (and the company) safe, while at the same time we need to give people the freedom to do their jobs. Our employees want to be helpful, perform well, and give good support to their co-workers, clients and customers. But good

The firewall team has been working furiously over the last several months on the latest release of XG Firewall and, after an extensive beta, we’re really pleased to announce that XG Firewall v16 is available now. This release is a major update that includes over 120 new features and enhancements across all areas of the

According to a variety of industry reports, cyber security spending is measured in Billions of dollars, and it’s projected to grow – driven by a number of market factors including cloud, mobile, IoT and other “elements of digital business.” But as organizations move quickly to shore up their security systems, motivated attackers continue to innovate

Cab rides, airport security, busy cafes, hotel rooms, airplanes; all can be very treacherous places for laptop computers. Each year, millions of laptops are lost, stolen or simply left behind, with many of them containing important and sensitive data. Full-disk encryption is the essential first line of defense for protecting data in any of these