Cyber
Defense Magazine announced Sophos as the Cybersecurity Company of the Year in
the publication’s 10th annual Global InfoSec
Awards. The winners were announced at the RSA Conference 2022 held
in San Francisco in early June. RSA Conference
is reputed to be the world’s leading provider of information security
conference and expositions.
“Cybercriminals are constantly
changing their tactics, techniques and procedures to evade detection, and Sophos
forensic evidence shows a 36% increase in attacker dwell time in 2021. The fact
that attackers are lingering in victim environments for weeks on end – and far
longer for smaller organisations – should serve as a wakeup call to businesses
worldwide,” says Ross Anderson, Sophos Product Development Manager at Duxbury
Networking. “Sophos is helping organisations detect intruders and neutralise
threats throughout the attack chain before they cause damage, and we’re honoured
to be associated with Sophos.”
Sophos’ comprehensive and integrated
portfolio of solutions and managed services protects against ransomware and
other advanced cyberthreats. Pillar offerings – including Sophos Intercept X, Sophos
XDR, Sophos Firewall, Sophos ZTNA, and Sophos Cloud Security – are easily
managed in the cloud-native Sophos Central platform. Customers can also choose
to have them managed by Sophos MTR, a threat hunting, detection, investigation,
and response service that provides a dedicated 24/7 security team to rapidly
identify and neutralise sophisticated and complex threats.
Offerings are part of the Sophos
Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, where they share real-time threat
intelligence for faster and more contextual and synchronised detection,
protection and response. Working together, the solutions can better identify
and quickly respond to active threats.
“Sophos embodies three major
features we judges look for: understanding tomorrow’s threats, today; providing
cost-effective solutions; and innovating in unexpected ways that can help
mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach,” says Gary
Miliefsky, publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.