OXFORD, U.K. — December 9, 2025 —

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, has today been recognized in Foundry’s Computerworld 2026 Best Places to Work in IT rankings.

Sophos earned this prestigious award that recognizes the top organizations that challenge their IT staff while providing great benefits, engagement, and training opportunities.

Sophos has developed a world-class IT team that is leading innovation and driving transformation, including through a major business acquisition. The culture of the team encourages calculated risk taking, taking ownership of individual careers with the support of their manager, and emphasizes the need to be a continuous learner. Ensuring employees are empowered to take on meaningful challenges and contribute to work that not only drives measurable outcomes for the business, but celebrates the innovations established to achieve them.

“We’re honored to have received this recognition from Computerworld for the second year in a row. As the nature of IT roles continues to change, we’ve worked hard to maintain a consistent, nurturing, and collaborative environment so it’s a delight to see these efforts recognized.” Said Tony Young, CIO, Sophos. “We are shifting focus toward high-impact, strategic, and analytical work, empowering our team to lead innovation and drive business transformation. Whether someone is passionate about solving complex technical challenges or leading business transformation through technology, Sophos offers the opportunity to do meaningful work in a high-trust, high-growth environment.”

“It’s clear that AI is having a disruptive impact on IT operations and IT talent,” says Barbara Call, global director of content strategy at Foundry. “This year’s honorees demonstrate how organizations are proactively evolving their talent strategies to fill much-needed skills gaps and reskill existing staff to be more resilient and responsive to changing needs.”

About the Best Places to Work in IT

The Best Places to Work in IT list is an annual ranking of the top work environments for technology professionals by Foundry's Computerworld. The list is compiled based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development and training, workplace culture, workplace modernization, IT growth, and employee engagement and retention. In addition, the rankings are reviewed and vetted by a panel of industry experts.

About Computerworld

Computerworld is the leading technology media brand empowering enterprise users and their managers, helping them create business advantage by skillfully exploiting today's abundantly powerful web, mobile, and desktop applications. Computerworld also offers guidance to IT managers tasked with optimizing client systems—and helps businesses revolutionize the customer and employee experience with new collaboration platforms. Computerworld's award-winning website (www.computerworld.com (http://www.computerworld.com)), strategic marketing solutions and research forms the hub of the world's largest global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld is published by Foundry. Company information is available at www.foundryco.com.

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About Sophos

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business.  Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.