IT security and control firm Sophos today announced it has been
positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders' Quadrant in the 2007
Endpoint Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant* report.
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms is
based on an assessment of a company's ability to execute and
completeness of vision. According to Gartner, "Leaders demonstrate
balanced progress and effort in all execution and vision
categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all
products in the market, and they can change the course of the
industry."
"We believe that the old order is changing as companies demand
more from what used to be an anti-virus budget," said Steve Munford, CEO
of Sophos. "Our advanced integration and reduced administration
mean it takes less to do more, and that complex principles like
Network Access Control are easily harnessed and made accessible to
the mainstream market."
The report observes that "Point products for antivirus,
antispyware, personal firewalls, and Host Based Intrusion
Prevention (HIPS) are rapidly being replaced by suites with a
centralized and extensible management framework. The management and
reporting capability of EPP (Endpoint Protection Platforms) suites
is a substantial differentiator especially in large enterprise. A
modular architecture that allows selective configuration based on
security requirements and device location is also critical."
* Gartner Research "Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection
Platforms, 2007" by P. Firstbrook, A. Hallawell, J. Girard and
N. MacDonald. December 21, 2007.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 21, 2007 by Gartner,
Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a
graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific
time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors
measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
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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.