Sophos appoints Malcolm Howe as Head of Global IT
Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus protection, today
announced the appointment of Dr Malcolm Howe to the position of
Head of Global IT. Howe, who most recently worked at Nominet, the
UK Internet domain name registrar, has 10 years of experience in
the IT arena.
As Global Head of IT, one of Howe's principal tasks will be to
establish best practice IT standards throughout the company. Howe
will be responsible for establishing a sound global infrastructure
and will ensure that all Sophos sites attain equally high levels of
security, service, reliability and efficiency.
"As Sophos continues to expand, it is imperative that we are
able to offer a consistently high level of service to all our
customers around the world," said Peter Lammer, CEO of Sophos
Anti-Virus. "The security of our customers' IT networks depends in
part on the reliability of our own infrastructure - Malcolm's
appointment is another important step towards our goal of providing
the best possible service for our customers."
Sophos has offices throughout the world, including the USA,
Australia, Japan, France and Germany. The company also plans to
build an additional high-security research and development centre
alongside its existing headquarters in Abingdon, UK.
Sophos is recruiting large numbers of staff in its technical,
sales and marketing departments worldwide. View details of the
range of career opportunities
available at Sophos.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.