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Sophos expands UK marketplace reach with New Distributor, Infinigate

Sophos has formed a new distribution agreement with Infinigate. As Sophos’ largest EMEA wide strategic distributor, Infinigate will be pivotal in expanding Sophos in the U.K., enabling partners and MSPs to access Sophos’ entire portfolio of innovative managed services and endpoint, network, email, and cloud security solutions. Infinigate’s channel partners …

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2024 Sophos Threat Report: Cybercrime on Main Street details cyberthreats facing SMBs

Sophos has released its annual 2024 Sophos Threat Report, with this year’s report detailing “Cybercrime on Main Street” and the biggest threats facing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs*). According to the report, in 2023, nearly 50% of malware detections for SMBs were keyloggers, spyware and stealers, malware that attackers use to …

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Sophos launches new dedicated Partner Care offering

Sophos is expanding its commitment to the channel with the addition of Partner Care, a new offering in its global partner program that features a dedicated, 24×7 team of Sophos experts who handle non-sales related questions and operational support. The offering is designed to speed up response times for Sophos partners …

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Hagerman steps down as Sophos CEO

Sophos has announced that Kris Hagerman has stepped down as its CEO and will serve as an advisor to the company until April 1, 2024. Effective immediately, Joe Levy is the president and acting CEO of Sophos. Hagerman has been CEO of Sophos since 2012 and led the company through …

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Feature: The battle between light and dark: the dark web and the future of business

By Gerard Allison, senior vice president of sales for EMEA at Sophos. The dark web has become much more developed than most businesses think. It has seen cybercriminals scale up their operations in dark marketplaces where bad actors trade, creating a tertiary industry with a network of supporting services and …

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Sophos appoints Darren Barker as regional VP of sales for Northern Europe

Sophos has appointed Darren Barker as regional vice president of sales for Northern Europe. Mr Barker is responsible for leading sales of Sophos’ Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Incident Response (IR) services, as well as the company’s portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security solutions, in the UK, …

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CompTIA ISAO Adds Real-time Cybersecurity Threat Analysis and Intelligence Resources from Sophos

CompTIA ISAO members can now directly submit suspicious URLs and files through the ISAO’s Cyber Forum to SophosLabs Intelix for rapid analysis to determine if they are known or zero-day cybersecurity threats. SophosLabs Intelix combines petabytes of threat intelligence derived from decades of SophosLabs threat research with Sophos AI tools and techniques, bringing …

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Sophos Opens Additional Office in the Deansgate District of Manchester, UK

Sophos is opening an additional office in the Deansgate district of Manchester, UK. “The new office in Manchester is an exciting move to support Sophos’ strategic growth. With the additional sales resources, we can further our plans already well underway to focus on the fastest growing part of our business – our next-gen cybersecurity …

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Sophos Acquires Capsule8

Sophos has acquired Capsule8. “Sophos already protects more than two million servers for over 85,000 customers worldwide, and the Sophos server security business is growing at more than 20% per year,” said Dan Schiappa, chief product officer, Sophos. “Comprehensive server protection is a crucial component of any effective cybersecurity strategy …

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New Research Identifies Surge in Cybercriminals Using TLS to Carry Out Attacks

Sophos has unveiled new XGS Series firewall appliances featuring Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection, including native support for TLS 1.3. “Sophos Firewall XGS Series appliances represent the most significant hardware upgrade that we have ever released, providing huge opportunity for the EMEA market,” said Kevin Isaac, senior vice president at Sophos. “The last …

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