Jordan's Furniture has selected Sophos to protect its employees
from malicious threats.
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, today
announced that Jordan's Furniture, Inc., one of New England's most
recognized furniture retailers, has selected Sophos Endpoint
Security and Control to protect its desktops against viruses,
Trojans, worms, spyware, adware, potentially unwanted applications
(PUAs) and hackers.
For the past two years, Jordan's Furniture has trusted Sophos
PureMessage to defend its email gateway from spam. Recently,
the retailer added virus protection to its security suite.
Implementing Sophos at both the email gateway and endpoint will
provide tighter integrated security while lowering total cost of
ownership.
Earning the greatest return on investment, Sophos
Endpoint Security and Control was selected for its superior
detection technology, high performance, and strong feature set,
including: desktop firewall, application control and HIPS, frequent
updates, and broad operating system support. Jordan's Furniture
purchased Sophos solutions through Sophos Platinum Channel Partner,
Softchoice. For the next 3 years, more than 1400 employees will be
safeguarded with Sophos's comprehensive solution.
"Managing different vendor security solutions caused higher
administrative overhead, and we wanted to enhance our level of
desktop protection," said Peter Clark, director of information
systems at Jordan's Furniture. "Sophos's Enterprise Console
provides ease-of-use and uncomplicated deployment with full Active
Directory integration. In the end, Sophos consistently outperformed
the others in many key areas and provided better security with its
expedited updates, better zero-day protection, and application
control functionality."
"Rather than managing multiple point products to stop different
threats, more organizations are opting to use a unified single
client to protect against malware, adware, potentially unwanted
applications (PUAs) and hackers," said Steve Leslie, senior vice
president of sales and marketing at Softchoice. "Jordan's Furniture
has built a very strong brand and loyal customer base in the New
England region, and protecting its network and customer information
is a top priority. I am confident that with partners like Sophos,
we will continue to play a vital role in helping organizations to
both simplify and enhance the security management process going
forward."
About Jordan's Furniture
Jordan's Furniture Company is truly the American epitome of a
family business. The feeling of family is spread throughout our
organization by a remarkable group of dedicated employees who call
themselves "The J-Team". This success story began in 1928 when
Barry and Eliot's grandfather opened his store in Waltham, and
"Jordan's Furniture" was born. With the help of Barry and Eliot's
father, the store began to prosper and grow.
In 1963, Eliot became actively involved in the company, with
Barry following a few years later. The winning combination of the
two brothers working together pushed sales volume well beyond
predictions, turning a local furniture store into a major retailer
by emphasizing a high level of customer service and in-store
entertainment. Today Jordan's has four store locations, Reading,
MA, Avon, MA, Natick, MA, and Nashua, New Hampshire. It operates
IMAX Theaters in its Reading and Natick locations and its 4-D Mom
Ride in Avon. In November of 1999, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
purchased Jordan's Furniture. More information at: www.jordans.com.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.