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The Shadow Brokers are a self-styled hacker group that recently kicked off a tongue-in-cheek media campaign claiming that they’d penetrated the NSA (or someone like that – they’re referring to the victim as the Equation Group). Shadow Brokers say they’ve made off with a virtual warehouse of tip-top “cyberweapons” that they plan to auction off. […]

Being an IT security professional isn’t easy these days; the cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving. Ransomware, Trojans, Malware, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most common types of threats. Each has different vectors and flavors, and each brings its own risks and costs. IT pros clearly need multiple layers

In many parts of the world right now we are right in the middle of back-to-school season. Kids are getting excited to see their friends again and head back to the classroom, and are preparing for the best possible experience in school this year. But what about at home? With so much of a child’s

Sophos officially announced the release of Sophos Email, our brand new secure email gateway solution, as an addition to our Email product range and our Sophos Central management platform. It’s engineered to provide our leading threat and spam protection to users of Microsoft Exchange Online, Office 365, Google Apps for Work and many other email

We’re honored to announce that Sophos has won three distinguished categories in CRN’s 2016 Annual Report Card (ARC). Following on from last year’s success, we were named overall winners in both the Network Security category and the Data Security category, as well as receiving the highly regarded Product Innovation award in the Endpoint Security category.

We’ve just updated Sophos Server Protection in Sophos Central, adding next-generation malware prevention and detection techniques for server environments. Solid server security starts with good operational hygiene, which includes restricting who and what can reach the server, and what applications can run. We’ve now made that easier in Sophos Central Server Protection with the inclusion

Sophos Endpoint Protection has been awarded 2 AAA awards from SE Labs. The top awards come in the latest round of independent tests conducted for Enterprise and SMB companies looking for endpoint protection. We make every effort to participate in several independent tests, so you don’t have to take the word of us or any

It’s official: the highly anticipated public beta for the Sophos XG Firewall v16 is now underway, and we’d love for you to get involved. The product team has been working furiously for the last several months making this one of the most ambitious and exciting product releases ever. It’s loaded with tons of new features

It may be summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, but the first week of August has been marked by a blizzard. A virtual blizzard, that is, of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on some gaming companies. Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5, Nintendo Pokémon GO, the PlayStation Network and Blizzard’s Warcraft and battle.net  were all

We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of Sophos Intercept, ushering in a new era of endpoint protection for modern threats. It’s our new signatureless anti-exploit, anti-ransomware, and anti-hacker technology that includes root-cause analytics and advanced malware cleanup – all managed via the Sophos Central Admin console. You’ve undoubtedly seen countless headlines about crippling ransomware