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Sophos UTM has added to our collection of industry awards, after being recognized as the Best UTM Solution at the SC Magazine Awards 2016 Europe, held earlier this week in London. As the editor-in-chief of SC Magazine points out, these awards are designed to recognize the leading players in the industry and to encourage and […]

A new version of a deceptive banking malware has been responsible for a series of attacks on financial institutions in many countries around the world in the past year, SophosLabs reports in a new research paper. Vawtrak (also known as NeverQuest and Snifula) has been around for a few years now, yet it continues to

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