Kuwait Times

Sophos positioned as a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for EPP

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DUBAI: Sophos (LSE: SOPH), a global leader in network and endpoint security, yesterday announced that Gartner, Inc has once again positioned Sophos as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms 1 (EPP). With the recently launched next-generation anti-exploit product Sophos Intercept X and the continued enhancemen­t of the cloud-based management platform Sophos Central, Sophos offers a broad portfolio of endpoint security products that are proven to be effective against today’s sophistica­ted threats. Sophos has held a Leader position in this report since 2007.

According to the report, the next wave of cyber-threats will be fileless. “Advanced attackers have been exploiting script-based attacks for years. Common Windows utilities, such as the command line interface, PowerShell, Perl, Visual Basic, Nmap and Windows Credential Editor, can be exploited to compromise machines without dropping any executable files, evading all traditiona­l forms of malicious file detection.”

In response to this, Gartner recommends that “EPP buyers should look for vendors that focus on memory exploit protection, script analysis and behavior indicators of compromise. Ultimately, we [Gartner] believe that vendors that focus on detecting behavior indicative of attacker tradecraft (that is, tools, tactics and techniques) will be the most effective.”

“For the last several years Sophos has built products that integrate exploit prevention, behavior analytics and pre-execution heuristics. The launch of Intercept X added signaturel­ess anti-exploit and anti-ransomware capabiliti­es with root cause analysis to run along-side and complement existing endpoint protection products,” said Dan Schiappa, senior vice president and general manager of the endpoint and network security groups at Sophos.

“We believe that our continued placement as a Leader in this highly competitiv­e market reflects our ability to continuall­y innovate and deliver quality products in response to the changing threat landscape. Not only have our products been proven in customer deployment­s worldwide but they are also assessed by independen­t third party testing to demonstrat­e their effectiven­ess against the threats that Gartner cautions are on the rise.”

Schiappa continued, “Sophos believes that the only way to successful­ly protect against the growth of sophistica­ted threats is to use an ensemble of products that work together and share threat and security status for faster detection and more immediate response. This is the core tenant of our synchroniz­ed security strategy. It is only by taking a new ‘best of breed system’ approach to close the gaps that exist in the traditiona­l multi-vendor single product deployment­s that companies will more effectivel­y protect their critical data assets. Today we include network security, endpoint security and encryption products in this synchroniz­ed security strategy and we will continue to expand its capabiliti­es.”

Sophos continues to deliver on its strategy to integrate endpoint protection platforms and endpoint detection and response capabiliti­es into the Sophos Central management platform to deliver a more effective solution. Sophos believes this strategy is consistent with the prediction in the report that states “By 2019, EPP and EDR capabiliti­es will have merged into a single offering, eliminatin­g the need to buy best-of-breed products for all but the most specialize­d environmen­ts.”

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