Sophos Happy With Growth
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The year-on-year was ahead of the industry average, says the company, which put this down to strong customer demand from the enterprise and SME sectors for its integrated IT security solutions.

Rob Forsyth, managing director for Sophos Australia and New Zealand, said, “Sophos’s constant drive for technology, service and channel innovation has delivered outstanding results and first-rate protection for our customers across the region and throughout the world.”

Sophos’s growth looks set to increase further with the forthcoming launches of its new centrally managed client firewall and adware detection and removal products in this fiscal year.  The company will release significant new versions of its enterprise endpoint protection solutions, which will provide advanced virus, spyware, adware and firewall protection for file servers, desktops and laptops on a wide range of platforms.  Sophos will also launch a cutting-edge solution for the Linux operating system with on-access virus scanning and supporting a large number of Linux platforms.

“As the nature of IT security threats change, driven by criminal and financial motive, Sophos has responded with new technologies and proactive services that both protect and inform our customers, ensuring confidence in our solutions,” Forsyth said.

The 2005 fiscal year saw Sophos’s global workforce rise to 925 employees – an increase of 26 percent on the previous year. 

In Australia and New Zealand, Sophos announced a major expansion of its operations, opening a new multi-million dollar research, development and threat analysis facility and Asia Pacific Support centre, creating more than 20 new technical jobs for the Australian IT industry.

Forsyth said, “The opening of our new SophosLabs facilities in North Sydney was a major highlight for Sophos and represents a significant and long-term investment in Australian IT skills.

Sophos has restructured its channel strategy to provide its partner resellers with greater value including more focused account teams, greater assistance with lead generation and renewal business as well as additional training and technical qualifications. 

Sophos’s most recent launch was for the ZombieAlert service, which identifies infected machines that are attached to business, government and ISP networks.  Sophos PhishAlert, developed in Australia, is a similar service that informs customers in near real time of phishing attacks that are targeting their operations.  Sophos is the first vendor of its kind to offer such information services. 

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