Sohpos wins gold in Readers' Choice Awards.
BOSTON - September 18, 2009 - IT security and data protection firm Sophos announced today Information Security Magazine readers' voted Sophos Email Security and Data Protection for the Best Email Security Product category - earning Gold status. Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection was voted as one of the top vendor solutions for the Best Anti-Malware Product category - earning Silver status.
For the fourth consecutive year, Information Security and SearchSecurity.com readers voted to determine the market's best security products. A record 1721 voters participated in the 2009 Readers' Choice Awards, rating 380 products and services in 17 different categories.
Respondents were asked to rate each product based on criteria specific to each category. For each criteria, respondents scored the product on a scale of one (poor) to five (excellent). In addition, each criteria was given a weighted percentage to reflect its importance in that category.
Winners were based on the cumulative weighted responses for each product category criteria. Editors arrived at a product's overall score by calculating the average score it received for each criteria, applying the weighted percentage and adding the adjusted scores.
"We are extremely delighted that one of the most influential security publications' readers voted Sophos Email Security and Data Protection as the best email security product," said Chris Kraft, vice president of gateway product management for Sophos. "Sophos's managed email appliance incorporates threat protection and content-filtering capabilities and to help our customers meet data-specific compliance requirements, we've integrated email encryption technology in June 2009."
To learn more about Information Security Readers' Choice Awards and to view this year's winners, please visit: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,296894,sid14_gci1366052,00.html
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Mehr als 100 Millionen Anwender in 150 Ländern verlassen sich auf Sophos als den besten Schutz vor komplexen IT-Bedrohungen und Datenverlust. Sophos bietet dafür Security- and Data-Protection-Lösungen an, die einfach zu verwalten, zu installieren und einzusetzen sind und dabei die branchenweit niedrigste Total Cost of Ownership bieten. Sophos bietet preisgekrönte Verschlüsselungs- und Endpoint-Security-Produkte, darüber hinaus Lösungen für Web- und E-Mail-Sicherheit sowie Network Access Control (NAC). Das Angebot wird von einem weltweiten Netzwerk eigener Analysezentren, den SophosLabs, unterstützt. Mit mehr als 20 Jahren Erfahrung gehört Sophos laut den Top-Analystenhäusern zu den führenden Unternehmen für IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz und hat zahlreiche Branchenauszeichnungen erhalten.
Sophos hat seinen Hauptsitz in Boston, USA, und Oxford, Großbritannien. In Deutschland ist das Unternehmen in Wiesbaden und in Österreich sowie der Schweiz je an einem Standort vertreten. Weitere Informationen unter: www.sophos.de.