Sophos has launched the latest version of Sophos Cloud, the cloud-based solution for small and mid-sized organisations that need a simpler approach to IT security, while providing top level protection.
The new version, says Sophos, is the only cloud-managed security service to manage Windows, Mac and mobile devices from a single console. It features user-based management, reporting and licensing, built-in web security to prevent user access to malicious and infected web sites, and new policy-based web control features to enforce safe and productive web usage. Sophos Cloud is easy to deploy, use and manage given its simple, intuitive user experience.
Sophos says that its research has shown the growing challenge of device diversity across their organisations, with a need to support Windows PCs, Macs and mobile devices. The company found that 78% of smaller organisations support or plan to support Macs on their corporate networks, and 41% see the number of Macs increasing in their corporate environments. A recent IDC study showed that a quarter of SMBs are using mobile device management (MDM). However, 75% still have not adopted MDM. Sophos is hoping that its new offering will make it simpler for those organisations to gain control of their mobile devices to secure their future. Clearly organisations need an integrated security strategy to support users’ demands to choose their own device (BYOD), Sophos asserts, while providing IT managers real-time visibility and access to information to keep organisations safe from advanced threats. Sophos says its Cloud delivers a simple and effective approach for IT organisations to confidently embrace BYOD and to support and protect the wide range of user devices in their environments.
Sophos Cloud leverages the same base technology as other proven offerings from the company, and so can deliver effective mobile device management to keep users productive and corporate information secure. The new web features enable IT managers to easily set and enforce policies for enhanced security and compliance; user-based policies can be created once and rapidly deployed across multiple groups and platforms, and follow the users and their devices even when they are off the network. Sophos Cloud also adds Active Directory synchronisation to simplify deployment and management for users and groups.
“IDC predicts that the continuing SMB productivity push will drive cloud and mobility adoption, in a big way; in the US, a third of small businesses and almost three quarters of mid-sized firms are using the cloud, and the share will continue to grow,” said Raymond Boggs, research vice president at IDC. “Sophos Cloud can help manage security across Windows, Mac, and mobile devices, which is especially important given the diversity – some might say chaos – of an SMB environment. Its user-based management is well suited to SMBs looking to secure users of corporate devices or their own BYOD equipment. Sophos Cloud will be a useful resource for channel partners to leverage in helping support the resource-limited IT teams of their SMB customers.”
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