GEC NEWS WIREGartner Positions Sophos as a Leader in Magic Quadrant Report for Endpoint Protection Platforms; Position held since 2007
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for EPP evaluated a vendor’s ability to protect and manage a wide array of endpoints (such as Mac, iOS and Android devices), and to integrate those into the management console and Sophos has once again been named as a Leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant report for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).
In the report, Gartner identifies four primary stages in the security lifecycle: setting policy, prevention, detection and remediation, and evaluated EPP vendors based on whether the features their solutions offer address these four stages.
In addition to being an EPP Leader, Sophos is also a Visionary in the June 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites.
“Today’s threats demand advanced technology like Sophos Next-Gen Endpoint Protection, which prevents, detects, remediates and investigates as one solution,” said Dan Schiappa, SVP & GM of Sophos Enduser Security Group. “Our researchers at SophosLabs are seeing an increase in the sophistication of malware – polymorphism is becoming the norm and previously unknown malware is on the rise. These types of threats can only be detected by the integrated
