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LogPoint, a European provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, today announced that it joined the EMC Business Partner Program for Technology Connect Partners and has successfully completed API compatibility requirements for interoperability with the EMC VNX storage platform. LogPoint is a rapidly growing cyber-security vendor and a leading European provider of Security […]

The European Banking Authority (EBA), the EU body tasked with supervising and regulating the banking sector, has issued a new set of guidelines on the security of internet payments. Among much else, the new instructions [PDF] seem to require payment service providers (PSPs) to ensure two-factor authentication (2FA) is used to verify the identity and intentions

The weeks leading up to Christmas are the busiest for the retail industry all year, which makes this a really opportune time for cybercriminals to break in and steal credit card and other personal data from all those online and in-store shoppers. Recently we surveyed a bunch of IT professionals at UK retailers and found

Back in June 2013, we announced the End of Life date for ASG V8 as December 31, 2014. This date has now been moved out to March 31, 2015. This gives us sufficient time to ensure that all customers and partners are informed accordingly and migrate all existing V8 customers to V9. If you are not

After a year of big data breaches like Home Depot and Sony, and widespread security vulnerabilities in our shared software, which spawned the likes of Heartbleed and Shellshock, it’s easy to predict that cyber security will be a hot topic in 2015. Our new Security Threat Trends 2015 report investigates the biggest security risks on the

Sophos announced the release of Sophos Cloud Server Protection, a high performance malware protection solution designed specifically for servers. The solution expands Sophos Cloud to a comprehensive security platform designed to protect desktops, laptops, mobile phones, tablets and now servers with the most effective and simplest to manage business security offering available. Servers store large

We’re pleased to commence the roll-out of our latest major UTM software update: UTM Advantage (9.3). More and more organizations are switching to Sophos UTM for their next firewall to take advantage of our all-in-one protection with on-box reporting, simplicity and performance. This release continues to add even more value and protection while making things easier

Recently recognized as an enterprise mobility management (EMM) market leader by Forrester, Sophos today announced the immediate availability of additional security and device management capabilities for the Android mobile platform. These simple-to-deploy, yet powerful solutions deliver mobile security for businesses of any size. IT professionals can now allow employees to take advantage of all that

Every quarter Sophos announces the SPAMPIONSHIP league highlighting the worst offending countries for spam. As we approach Halloween, the Q3 (July-August-September) results for 2014 are in. The Spampionship is a clear reminder that while spam is a global problem, prevention begins at home. That’s because most spam comes from so-called “zombies” – computers infected by malware

Back in the summer we ran a little survey on SpiceWorks and almost 400 Small and Medium Business IT managers gave us their view on the main challenges they have with their current firewall. But some of the results weren’t exactly what we were expecting. The #1 rated issue was the lack of reporting options