Unfortunately, these companies don’t provide complete end-to-end encryption, and there are many loopholes the NSA, or cybercriminals, can slip through. That’s why an encryption solution that protects data everywhere — in emails, on disk, or in the cloud — is essential. In this short video, we explain how you can get security and performance; plus […]
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Sophos is the only IT security company to be positioned as a Leader across three critical security areas: Unified Threat Management (UTM), Mobile Data Protection and Endpoint Protection Platforms. “We believe it is a privilege to receive recognition from Gartner. The momentum in our UTM business is truly exciting,” said Bryan Barney, General Manager, Network
Sophos currently offers an optimized AMI that is compatible with AWS cloud services. With this new hourly-based model, customers are able to take advantage of the many scaling, redundancy and elasticity features offered by AWS. Put simply, this approach lets customers access and securely defend their cloud resources with a solution optimized for the AWS
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The Federal Communications Commission reports that mobile phone theft constitutes 30-40% of all robberies across the United States, a crime that cost US citizens $30 billion in 2012. In the Senator’s own state of California such thefts are even more prevalent, accounting for over 50% of street robberies, Los Angeles alone has seen a 12% increase
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In our recent UTM 9.2 release we accelerated our Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) – to do so we made changes to the underlying engine and worked at making our IPS smarter with new optimized default rule sets. We’ve been getting great reports from customers and partners about the speed boost they’re seeing. But it’s not
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“On June 19th we uncovered, halted and contained a targeted attack on our internal network infrastructure. Our systems have been cleaned and there is no evidence of any user data being compromised. We are working with the relevant authorities to investigate its source and any potential further extent. We will let you know if there
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Spammers versus spam senders There’s a big difference, because spammers generally don’t send their own spam in bulk any more. That hasn’t worked for a decade or so, because if you send 10,000,000 unwanted emails as fast as you can from the same server, or even the same data centre, you make an easily-identified target.
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Once Microsoft officially ends support for XP on Patch Tuesday in April (the last security update for XP), there will be no new security updates, non-security fixes, assisted support options, or online technical content updates from Microsoft. That means that XP users, even those with anti-malware protection from Microsoft or security vendors, will face significantly
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Independent test vendor Miercom has done rigorous testing of the Sophos SG Series alongside comparative appliances from other vendors. We shared some data points from Miercom earlier this year which looked very good indeed. Now Miercom has made available more results – and I don’t think you will be disappointed. The report includes measurement of
In an increasingly complex security environment Sophos works with partners to make security simple to deliver, implement and manage. Over the last 12 months Sophos has created a more flexible and generous partner programme, providing partners with protection for deal registrations, attractive margins and joint lead generation initiatives. The programme also provides up-to-date certification, to
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