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It’s a challenge for network security professionals to detect, never mind block, every intrusion. What’s troubling is how much time it can take for an organization to realize that its network security system has been breached. In its latest report on cyber security trends, “M-Trends 2016,” FireEye found that it took a median of 146 […]

For IT security teams, it’s nearly impossible to keep up with the ever-changing cyber threat landscape; not only are there are numerous types of threats, but some attacks are so small in scale that they often escape human detection. Large-scale, volumetric DDoS attacks may cripple websites and grab headlines, but small-scale, low-threshold attacks can be

Mobile devices… everybody has them. We use them every day (sometimes for large parts of the day) for increasingly productive and amazing things – to take selfies, peruse the news, surf the web, compose music, send saucy text messages, make art, and other creative things. Most also want to use them at work – to

If you think your antivirus alone is enough to stay safe from today’s advanced malware threats, you might want to get a second opinion. Today’s malware is difficult to detect, difficult to remove and difficult to recover from. We estimate that less than 10% of all the new samples analyzed by SophosLabs is previously known

Miercom, a leading, independent test center, recently conducted a comparative test of UTM/Next-Gen Firewall appliances from leading network security vendors including Sophos, Fortinet, Check Point, Dell SonicWALL and WatchGuard. Miercom ran an extensive set of tests, including raw firewall throughput at a variety of real-world packet sizes. We were pleased with the results, as our XG

Looking into current Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, one can notice that all of them attempt to meet certain criteria, such as the native support provided for different log sources and the design of modern features in order to perform data examination and analysis on the sheer volume of the generated log data.

There are many misconceptions about cloud security, and it starts with basic misunderstandings about what “the cloud” even is. Essentially, the cloud is anything hosted and accessed virtually. Webmail systems like Gmail, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are in the cloud. Really, the entire internet is the cloud! As Sophos experts explain

Corero released the results of our annual DDoS Impact Survey, which polled technology decision makers, network operators and security experts about key DDoS issues and trends that Internet service providers and businesses face in 2016. Nearly half (45%) of the survey participants indicated that loss of customer trust is the most damaging consequence of DDoS

The Radicati Group has just released its Enterprise Mobility Management – Market Quadrant 2016 report, and we’re proud that Sophos has earned a place in the Top Players quadrant, demonstrating our leadership in the industry. Radicati, an independent market research firm not aligned with any vendor, evaluates enterprise mobility management (EMM) vendors based on feature functionality

Array Networks Inc.,a global leader in application delivery networking, announced today the immediate availability of three new fifth-generation application delivery controller (ADC) appliances. Running Array’s recently released Version 8.6 software, the entry-level APV1600 and APV2600 and the mid-range APV3600 achieve industry-leading Layer-4, Layer-7 and SSL benchmarks for throughput and connections per second – delivering up