Sophos |
| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer Security |
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| Founded | 1985 |
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| Founder(s) | Jan Hruska, Peter Lammer |
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| Headquarters | Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Burlington, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Key people | Kris Hagerman (CEO) |
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| Products | Daftar/Tabel -- products - Sophos Endpoint Security & Control
- Sophos Anti-Virus
- Sophos PureMessage
- Sophos Client Firewall
- Sophos Email Appliance
- Sophos Web Appliance
- Sophos Control Center
- Sophos Enterprise Console
- Sophos Anti-Rootkit
- Sophos NAC
- Sophos SafeGuard Easy
- Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise
- Sophos SafeGuard LAN Crypt
- Sophos SafeGuard Mail Gateway
- Sophos SafeGuard Port Protector
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| Employees | 1500+ |
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| Website | sophos.com |
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Sophos is a developer and vendor of security software and hardware, providing endpoint, encryption, email, web, mobile and network security as well as UTM products. Sophos is largely focused on providing security to organizations and businesses.
SophosLabs is the company's global network of threat analysis centers.
Company profile
The company employs more than 1,700 people worldwide. Sophos products protect over 100,000 businesses and 100 million users, in more than 150 countries.
Sophos was founded in 1985 by Dr. Peter Lammer and Dr. Jan Hruska.
Sophos is a privately owned company and is co-headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England and Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. The company has subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Spain.
Sophos competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, BullGuard, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro among others.
Acquisitions and Partnerships
From September 2003 to February 2006, Sophos served as the parent company of ActiveState, a developer of programming tools for dynamic programming languages. In February 2006, ActiveState became an independent company when it was sold to Vancouver-based venture capitalist firm Pender Financial.
In 2007, Sophos acquired ENDFORCE, a company based in Ohio, USA which develops and sells security policy compliance and Network Access Control (NAC) software.
In July 2008, Sophos announced its intention to acquire Utimaco Safeware AG.[1]
In July 2009, Sophos completed integration of Utimaco Safeware AG.[2]
In May 2010, Sophos reached a definitive agreement to sell a majority interest in the company to Apax Partners, a global private equity group.[3]
In May 2011, Sophos announced it had entered into an agreement to acquire Astaro, a privately held provider of network security solutions, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA and Karlsruhe, Germany.[4]
In April 2012, Sophos acquired DIALOGS, a privately held provider of mobile management solutions, headquartered in Germany.
Company history
During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Sophos primarily sold a range of security technologies in the UK. This included encryption tools.
Late in the 1990s, Sophos concentrated its efforts onto sales of anti-virus technology and embarked on an a program of international expansion. Sophos opened subsidiary operations and moved to selling with channel partners.
2006:
- Steve Munford was named CEO of Sophos.
- Co-founders Dr Hruska and Dr Lammer remain as members of the board of directors.
- Peter Gyenes was named Sophos Chairman.[5]
2007:
- Sophos approaches Edugeek with legal action due to the posts of one of its members. Sophos apologized for their actions and blamed a rogue employee.[6]
2009:
- Sophos announced job cuts of five per cent of its workforce, including 30 at the company's headquarters in Abingdon.[7]
- Sophos released Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 9, Sophos Enterprise Console 4, and Sophos Control Center 4.
2010:
- Sophos releases Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition. This software was made available free of charge.[8]
- Sophos announces job cuts of around seven percent of their workforce in response to poorer than expected growth in the first half of 2010.[9]
- Majority interest of Sophos is sold to Apax [10]>
- Nick Bray, formerly Group CFO at Micro Focus International, is named Sophos CFO.[11]
- Sophos launches Naked Security, a security blog that focuses on news, research, advice and opinion.[12]
2011
- Sophos releases Sophos Endpoint Protection 10, SafeGuard Enterprise 6, and Sophos Mobile Control 2.
- Utimaco are accused of supplying data monitoring and tracking software to partners that have sold to governments such as Syria. Sophos issued a statement apologizing and confirming that partner Area terminated their project in Syria and that the project did not result in an operational system.[13]
- Sophos releases Sophos Virus Removal Tool, a free tool that detects and removes viruses.[14]
2012
- Kris Hagerman, formerly CEO at Corel Corporation, was named Sophos CEO, joining the company’s board. Former CEO Steve Munford became non-executive chairman of the board.[15]
- A software update caused user machines to identify the update software itself as malware. [16]
- Sophos employees raised £25,862.62 for UK Charity Prince’s Trust, raising money with a sponsored palace-to-palace bike ride and a book-and-bake sales at UK headquarters in Abingdon, UK. [17]
2013
- Sophos launched four security suites: Sophos Complete Security Suite; Sophos UTM; Sophos EndUser Data Suite; and Sophos EndUser Web Suite.[18]
- Sophos employees raised £6910 ($10,450 USD) for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day [19]
Products
- Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection
- Sophos Anti-Virus
- Sophos Client Firewall
- Sophos Disk Encryption
- Enterprise Console
- PureMessage (for UNIX, Microsoft Exchange, and Lotus Domino)
- Sophos Email Appliance
- Sophos Web Appliance and Security Management Appliance
- Sophos for Microsoft SharePoint
- Sophos Safeguard
- Safeguard Enterprise
- Safeguard Easy
- Safeguard PrivateDisk
- Safeguard RemoveableMedia
- Safeguard LAN Crypt
- SAV Interface
- Sophos Mobile Control
- Sophos Mobile Security
- Antivirus for Mac
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