Sophos Positioned in the “Leaders” Quadrant of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection
Announcement posted by Sophos 16 Sep 2010
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection (MDP) is based on an assessment of a company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. According to Gartner, “Leaders have products that work well for Gartner clients in small and large deployments. They have long-term road maps that follow and/or influence Gartner’s vision of the developing needs of buyers in the market. Leaders make their competitors’ sales staffs nervous, and force competitors’ technical staffs to follow their lead. Their MDP products are well-known to clients and are frequently found on RFP shortlists. In 2010, the companies that execute strongly enough to differentiate themselves as Leaders are EPP vendors that all made MDP acquisitions.”
Capitalizing on technology acquired from encryption leader Utimaco, in April, Sophos announced the release of Sophos SafeGuard Easy and Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50 designed to address the broadest array of customer requirements, implementation options and long-term data protection plans. Also in October 2009, Sophos introduced fully integrated data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities into Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection 9.0, offering businesses greater visibility into, and control over, sensitive data – without requiring the deployment of any additional agents or incurring further licensing costs.
“We believe Gartner’s evaluation and placement of Sophos in the Leaders Quadrant further underscores the company’s consistent, strategic product focus and vision,” said Steve Munford, chief executive officer at Sophos. “With continued scrutiny from government and industry regulators, as well employees, customers and partners, businesses are not only legally obligated to protect sensitive information for the purposes of compliance, but also required do so in the most comprehensive, yet simple, cost-efficient and effective manner – Sophos addresses all of these needs.”
Additionally, the report observed that, “Mobile data protection (MDP) systems and procedures are needed to protect data privacy and to comply with audit requirements, and every company must include MDP in its IT operations plan.” And Gartner stated that, “MDP is an attractive complement to theendpoint protection product (EPP) suites, which already encompass enterprise anti-virus (AV), anti-spyware, personal firewall and desktop host intrusion prevention system.”
* Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection” by John Girard, Eric Ouellet, September 7, 2010.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted September 7, 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
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