Sophos Ascends Into Cloud-Based Security

Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Larry Walsh.

Sophos Ltd.’s ascension to cloud computing aims to let solution providers offer cloud-based security services that complement or replace, but not compromise, legacy software and infrastructure investments. Unveiled last week, Sophos Cloud will offer endpoint security services in which solution providers and end users can buy and manage protection for PCs and mobile devices through a cloud-based portal. The goal is to simplify the deployment and management processes, resulting in enhanced protection.

“Cloud vendors have disrupted the channel with the cloud model. We’ve been careful as a channel-first company that when we go to the cloud, we do it in a channel-first manner,” said Bill Lucchini, general manager of Sophos’s Cloud Group…

Under CEO Kris Hagerman, Sophos has made cloud services a major part of its go-to-market strategy. The Cloud Group and its services are more platforms in which the different legacy Sophos product groups will eventually plug in its offerings for integrated, end-to-end security…

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