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Organizations can be overwhelmed with a constantly evolving cyber threat landscape. There is no shortage of threats, but there is a shortage of trained IT security personnel to guard against them. In particular, the UK, US and Canada are experiencing a shortage of network engineering professionals who have distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation skills, […]

The iboss Cloud Secure Web Gateway Platform was rigorously tested by the engineers at Meircom Labs and earned their security certification, while showing an unrivaled ability to stop more evasive threats. Here’s a summary of the Meircom findings: The iboss Cloud Secure Web Gateway Platform had substantially higher detection rates than the industry average (97.4%

Sophos Mobile Control has been given five stars and the “Best Buy” award from SC Magazine, beating AirWatch, IBM and Citrix in the publication’s latest review of mobile device management solutions. We’re delighted that Sophos Mobile Control came out on top, and received a perfect five out of five stars in all categories in the

Back in April we announced the release of Sophos Central (previously Sophos Cloud) with its all-new integrated management platform. This marked a major step forward in simplifying security management in an industry that has been increasingly trending toward complicated point products. We’ve been steadfast in our belief that powerful, feature-filled, and industry-leading security should be

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks make headlines when they are 1) large enough to cripple a website and 2) the affected website belongs to a recognizable organization. For example, we’ve seen news stories about attacks on websites with many users (such as PlayStation, a gaming website) or websites that serve a critical function (such

At Sophos, we’re committed to taking a fresh approach to complex problems. In November, we announced synchronized security: no longer does security mean making sense of piecemeal tools and reacting to alerts. With synchronized security, your security solutions communicate with each other both across the network and on endpoints to mitigate risks and stop data

Corero polled over 100 IT security professionals at Infosecurity Europe 2016 in London last month, and the survey shows that UK businesses are not only worried about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, they want better DDoS protection from Internet Service Providers. Over three quarters (80%) of the IT security professionals polled believe that their

As a security vendor, we’re often asked, “What about Sophos Antivirus for iPhones and iPads?” We’d love to oblige, but Apple’s iOS development model doesn’t allow the sort of interaction with the operating system that we’d need to build an effective anti-virus program. In particular, to qualify for the App Store, an app is limited

The UK team were asked recently to provide some comment for a well-known IT Security website around how SIEM can provide a return on investment. It’s an interesting topic, especially since we think that the answer is “Quite easily!”. But it set us thinking as well because the question was actually phrased thus; “How do

You may be wondering how SG UTM fits in with this new Synchronized Security era we’re entering. The answer is: very well! It’s already got some great Synchronized Security-like integration built-in, and it’s a great platform to start your Synchronized Security journey. SG UTM, Endpoint and SMC integration As you probably know, SG UTM has