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We’re pleased to announce the latest release of Sophos Web Appliance 4.3, which adds improved Sophos Sandstorm capabilities and completely updates the underlying Sophos Web Appliance operating system to a new improved kernel. If you’re not familiar with Sophos Sandstorm, it gives your organization an extra layer of security to defend against fast-moving, targeted attacks, […]

Sophos is the same as any other business – we need to keep our employees (and the company) safe, while at the same time we need to give people the freedom to do their jobs. Our employees want to be helpful, perform well, and give good support to their co-workers, clients and customers. But good

The firewall team has been working furiously over the last several months on the latest release of XG Firewall and, after an extensive beta, we’re really pleased to announce that XG Firewall v16 is available now. This release is a major update that includes over 120 new features and enhancements across all areas of the

According to a variety of industry reports, cyber security spending is measured in Billions of dollars, and it’s projected to grow – driven by a number of market factors including cloud, mobile, IoT and other “elements of digital business.” But as organizations move quickly to shore up their security systems, motivated attackers continue to innovate

Cab rides, airport security, busy cafes, hotel rooms, airplanes; all can be very treacherous places for laptop computers. Each year, millions of laptops are lost, stolen or simply left behind, with many of them containing important and sensitive data. Full-disk encryption is the essential first line of defense for protecting data in any of these

For more than a decade, CyberArk has focused on helping companies to protect high value assets inside the network. Over the years, privileged account security has evolved from compliance-driven projects to thoughtful strategic programs adopted enterprise wide. Along the way, we have innovated and enhanced our offering to stay ahead of ever-changing advanced threats, but

How do things stand with you in terms of protection for personal PCs and Macs? Do the following situations sound familiar? Missed updates? Calls from your mother when the PC has once again been hit by a virus? Complicated installation processes? If you answer „Yes“ to some or all of these questions, then we have

At Sophos, we’re no strangers to next-generation security. You can see it across our entire product line, from our powerful Security Heartbeat technology that leverages Sophos Central to facilitate communication between endpoints and the network, to our advanced behavioral analytics and malicious traffic detection features (and a whole lot more). Today, with the introduction of

Just like the visible stars in any night sky, the number of IoT devices may soon be countless and with that, count on at least one vulnerability and probably more for each device. IoT is exacerbating concerns over mobile security threats, as well as exploits that lack a mobile component. IoT will play a role

SophosLabs has just released a research paper on a new way that cybercriminals are distributing malware that makes money by “borrowing” your computer to mine cryptocurrency. The report by Attila Marosi, Senior Threat Researcher at Sophos, investigates the Mal/Miner-C malware, which criminals are using to mine the cryptocurrency Monero. In this paper, Marosi examines how