Sophos
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- Legal Name: Sophos Group plc
- Website: sophos.com
- Founded: 1985
- Founder(s): Jan Hruska, Peter Lammer
- Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophos
- Title: Fully Synchronized, Cloud-Native Data Security
What is Sophos?
Sophos, headquarted in in Oxford, U.K, is a next-generation cybersecurity company. Sophos protects more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries.The company that produces antivirus and encryption products over 30 years ago has a global threat intelligence and data science team named SophosLabs. Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-powered solutions secure endpoints and networks against evolving cyberattack techniques, including ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, active-adversary breaches, phishing.
This next-generation cybersecurity company offers its products dividing into two segments. The first segment business products consists of endpoint protection, managed services, next-gen firewall and public cloud solutions. Home product segment offers Sophos Home. In addition to this portfolio, Sophos Central, a cloud-native management platform, integrates Sophos’ entire portfolio of next-generation products. The company also has another special security soluitons including Sophos Email, Sophos Mobile and more. Sophos leverages advanced capabilities in cloud, machine learning, APIs, automation, managed threat response for driving a transition to next-generation cybersecurity. The company has a global sale channel of more than 53,000 partners and managed service providers (MSPs).
Recent Sophos News
Zero-day Sophos vulnerability is being exploited by hackers
Volexity announced that multiple Chinese advanced persistent threat groups are targeting an organization by leveraging a zero-day exploit to compromise ...
Sophos fixed a critical Firewall vulnerability
Sophos announced that the company has fixed a critical vulnerability in the Sophos Firewall solution. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1040, ...
Linux netfilter firewall has a security hole
The security company Sophos has found a new security hole in the Linux netfilter firewall program, which is used for ...
Sophos unveils Sophos Switch Series
Next-generation cybersecurity company, Sophos unveiled the Sophos Switch Series. The new devices feature network access layer switches to connect, power, ...
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Sophos acquires Refactr
Sophos, a next-generation cybersecurity company, has acquired Refactr, which develops and markets a versatile DevSecOps automation platform that bridges the gap ...
Sophos acquires Braintrace to enhance adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem
Next-generation cybersecurity company Sophos announced that it has acquired Braintrace to enhance its Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem with Braintrace's proprietary Network ...
Sophos acquires Linux security company Capsule8
With the growth in cloud platforms, Linux has become the dominant operating system for server workloads. Next-generation cybersecurity company Sophos ...
Sophos plans to build new data centers in Canada, Australia and Japan
Sophos, a next-generation cybersecurity company, announced plans to provide new data centers in Montreal, Canada, in July; Sydney, Australia, in ...
Sophos launches new XGS Series firewall appliances
Sophos launched new XGS Series firewall appliances with unrivaled performance and advanced protection against cyberattacks. The new appliances feature industry-best ...
Sophos to launch four new open Artificial Intelligence developments
Sophos announced four new open Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments to help broaden and sharpen the industry’s defenses against cyberattacks. Four ...
Sophos warns users about a security breach
Sophos announced that some of its customers' data exposed during a security breach. According to the announcement, it was caused ...
Ransomware and other significant cyberattack trends of 2021
Sophos 2021 Threat Report that covers attacks on servers, the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on IT security, the ...
Hackers try many ways to attack Sophos firewalls
Sophos published a second report about Asnarök attacks on firewalls. One month after hotfixes rolled out, Asnarök attackers twice modified ...
Sophos announced a hotfix for XG Firewall exploit
Sophos announced that the company started an investigation, after receiving a report on April 22, and the results show that ...
Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos
Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, acquired cybersecurity firm Sophos in a cash transaction that values Sophos at approximately $3.9 ...
7 top cyber attack predictions for 2020
Cloud-enabled next-generation cybersecurity company Sophos released its 2020 Threat Report providing insights into the rapidly evolving cyberthreat landscape. The report, ...