OXFORD, U.K. — Mai 4, 2023 —

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced the appointment of Pat Sheridan as senior vice president of Americas sales.

“Pat will be instrumental in accelerating growth of Sophos’ rapidly growing Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services, as well as our more than $1 billion endpoint, network, email, and cloud security product portfolio, in the Americas,” said Bill Robbins, president of worldwide field operations at Sophos. “Pat is an accomplished sales leader with deep cybersecurity expertise and nearly three decades of experience delivering high-performing sales operations and strategy. He’ll be a tremendous asset to Sophos and our frontline channel partners and collective customers.”

Prior to Sophos, Sheridan served as senior vice president of Americas sales at Trellix. He also held several leadership positions at FireEye, where he played a key role in the 2021 acquisition of its product business, including senior vice president of worldwide sales, Americas sales and U.S. public sector sales. Sheridan also held leadership roles at Commvault, Data Domain, BladeLogic, and Brocade, and served as a captain in the U.S. Army. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Bucknell University.

“The threat landscape is growing more complex, and ransomware remains one of the most pervasive threats, as evidenced in the Active Adversary Report for Business Leaders. Adversaries are also executing attacks faster than ever before, and the need for industry-best, always-on defenses are imperative,” said Sheridan. “Widely recognized as the gold standard in cybersecurity, Sophos has long led the mid-market segment. There’s extraordinary opportunity to optimize Sophos’ strengths, build on its successes and amplify growth within the midmarket and across larger organizations, and I look forward to applying my results-driven approach in running enterprise, commercial, channel, and public sector sales teams to do exactly that.”

Über Sophos

Sophos ist ein führender Anbieter im Bereich Cybersicherheit und schützt weltweit 600.000 Unternehmen und Organisationen mit einer KI-gestützten Plattform und von Experten bereitgestellten Services. Sophos unterstützt Unternehmen und Organisationen unabhängig von ihrem aktuellen Sicherheitsniveau und entwickelt sich mit ihnen weiter, um Cyberangriffe erfolgreich abzuwehren. Die Lösungen von Sophos kombinieren maschinelles Lernen, Automatisierung und Echtzeit-Bedrohungsinformationen mit der menschlichen Expertise der Sophos X-Ops. So entsteht modernster Schutz mit einer 24/7 aktiven Erkennung, Analyse und Abwehr von Bedrohungen.
Das Sophos-Portfolio beinhaltet branchenührende Managed Detection and Response Services (MDR) sowie umfassende Cybersecurity-Technologien– darunter Schutz für Endpoints, Netzwerke, E-Mails und Cloud-Umgebungen, XDR (Extended Detection and Response), ITDR (Identity Threat Detection and Response) und Next-Gen-SIEM. Ergänzt wird das Angebot durch Beratungs-Services, die Unternehmen und Organisationen helfen, Risiken proaktiv zu reduzieren und schneller zu reagieren – mit umfassender Transparenz und Skalierbarkeit, um Bedrohungen immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein.
Der Vertrieb der Sophos-Lösungen erfolgt über ein globales Partner-Netzwerk, das Managed Service Provider (MSPs), Managed Security Service Provider (MSSPs), Reseller und Distributoren, Marketplace-Integrationen und Cyber Risk Partner umfasst. So können Unternehmen und Organisationen flexibel auf vertrauensvolle Partnerschaften setzen, wenn es um die Sicherheit ihres Geschäfts geht.  Der Hauptsitz von Sophos befindet sich in Oxford, Großbritannien. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.sophos.de.