January 2017

Our mission at Sophos is to provide the best security solutions on the market and to make them easier to understand, deploy and manage than any of our competitors’ offerings. From our continuous assessment of the threat landscape, two things are abundantly clear: first, that email is one of the most problematic sources of infection; […]

In recent weeks, the UK retail bank Lloyds was hit with a denial of service attack, which reportedly lasted for two days and attempted to block access to 20 million accounts. The attack was part of a broader DDoS campaign against an unspecified number of UK banks that only affected services at Lloyds, Halifax and

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been in the news lately for facilitating numerous DDoS exploits across the planet. A global non-profit think tank called the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has published a paper entitled IoT, a vision for the future. It outlines how the IoT can grow and thrive, especially given that “users’ confidence

According to official data, in 2016 alone, hackers have taken over $1 Billion in the form of ransoms from users trying to retrieve their files after being infected with ransomware. Ransomware is the most successful malware attack today. It works by locking up your files and crippling your systems until you’ve handed over money. And,

Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the backbone of the U.S. economy. According to data available in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small Business Profile for 2016, SMBs with fewer than 500 employees make up 99.7 percent of all U.S. companies and employ 56.8 million workers—48 percent of the U.S. workforce. Cyber security is as

SE Labs has just released its Q4 2016 testing results, and we’re pleased to report that Sophos Endpoint Protection scored high. The results are a testament to Sophos Lab’s diligence in protecting customers against real-time malware threats that are constantly evolving. The charts below, taken from the report, show how Sophos fared in the various

Sophos Home is a ‘lean, mean, virus-killing machine’ – that’s the verdict of Which?, and who are we to argue? Which?, the highly regarded UK product testing magazine, placed Sophos Home in the #1 spot, ahead of Panda, Avast, and AVG. The publication gave Sophos Home 5 stars for performance, 5 stars for phishing, and

Mac malware is on the rise. While Apple does provide system protection for MacOS Sierra, dangerous infections that can wreak havoc are consistently being developed and deployed by cybercriminals. That’s why we created Sophos Home to protect every Mac in your home with business-grade security. To show you just what Sophos Home is made of