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The COVID-19 era has ushered in a global organisational transition to remote working policies and highlighted the need to bolster protection against cyber-attacks and inadvertent data misuse at the hands of employees. Top cybersecurity leaders outline key areas to facilitate successful remote workforce environments in this latest article by HelpNetSecurity, including HelpSystems CEO Kate Bolseth, […]

We’re pleased to announce the addition of new reporting capabilities for Sophos Central Firewall Reporting (CFR). If you’re a customer of CFR Advanced, you’ll see new options to save, schedule, and export your favorite reports in Sophos Central, further extending your powerful custom reporting capabilities in the cloud. What’s new and how to use it

Security services bestow organizations with the security expertise they desperately need to combat ever-increasingly capable threat actors, as illustrated by the momentum in uptake of our Managed Threat Response service. It has been less than 11 months since the launch of Sophos Managed Threat Response, our 24/7 human-led threat hunting, detection, and response service. Our performance in that time

Ransomware continues to plague organizations, with over half of companies surveyed across 26 countries revealing that they were hit by ransomware in the last year. Modern firewalls are highly effective at defending against ransomware attacks, but they need to be given the chance to do their job. Our guide, Firewall Best Practices to Block Ransomware,

Read the report today! In our recent survey of 5,000 IT Managers across 26 countries, 51% of respondents revealed that they were hit by ransomware in the last year. In 73% of those incidents, attackers succeeded in encrypting data. Furthermore, the average global cost to remediate these attacks was an eye-watering $761,106. An endpoint protection

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), while a legitimate tool, is also a common ingress point for attackers looking to break into an organization. A recent Sophos survey found that in 9% of ransomware attacks, RDP was the method used to gain entry. Fortunately, Intercept X Advanced with EDR makes it easy to identify devices that have

We’re excited to announce that we have launched the new Sophos Support Portal, which makes it much easier for you to track and manage all your support cases. You can now visit support.sophos.com to access and create support cases. What’s new Create and manage your own support cases Your Sophos partner can manage cases on

We often get asked about the inner workings of Netsparker’s vulnerability scanning engine. People familiar with network and virus scanners also ask what vulnerability databases we use and how often we update them. In reality, it’s all a lot more interesting than ticking boxes on a list of known issues. Time to set the record

As cybercriminals continue to take advantage of the public cloud in their attacks, Sophos commissioned an independent survey of 3,521 IT managers across 26 countries* to reveal the reality of cloud security in 2020. The 2020 cloud security reality The survey provides fresh new insight into the cybersecurity experiences of organizations using the public cloud,

ProLock ransomware emerged on the threat scene in March, a retooled and rebranded version of PwndLocker. As SophosLabs reveals in its detailed analysis, while ProLock ransomware gives you the first eight kilobytes of decryption for free, it can still cause significant business disruption and economic damage. Protect against ProLock with Sophos Intercept X Intercept X