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Sophos Expands Rapidly Growing Managed Service Provider Program
Thursday, January 9, 2020Company Profile | Follow Company
Sophos office in downtown Vancouver at 777 Dunsmuir
Vancouver, BC, January 9, 2020--(T-Net)--Sophos (LSE: SOPH), a leader in next-generation cloud-enabled cybersecurity solutions, has introduced enhancements to MSP Connect, a program that makes it easier for MSPs to deploy, manage and sell Sophos' entire product portfolio.
New security offerings for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and cloud security, as well as new professional services automation (PSA) and remote monitoring and management (RMM) integrations, will help MSPs unlock revenue opportunities, increase productivity and lower operational costs.
Sophos MSP Connect supports more than 8,000 global and regional MSPs worldwide. MSP billings increased 83 percent in the first half of Sophos' fiscal year, resulting in annual recurring revenue of $33 million.
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Editor's Note: One of Sophos' three main facilities in North America is located in downtown Vancouver at 777 Dunsmuir Street. Sophos had earlier acquired Vancouver's ActiveState in 2003 for a reported $23 million in cash.
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"To further support this growth, Sophos is expanding its MSP program with optimized offerings that directly meet the evolving needs of MSPs and their customers," said Scott Barlow, vice president, Global MSP, Sophos. "Sophos is committed to helping MSPs stay ahead of new and emerging threats, and we're providing a flexible subscription-based model for critical solutions and services that better protect customers with the scalability and automatic invoicing to fit their operational needs. With dedicated teams across the Americas, EMEA and APJ, we're well positioned to help MSPs grow their managed security service businesses, training them on how to defend customer endpoints, servers, mobile devices, and networks with synchronized security and how to sell cybersecurity as a system."
New MSP Connect offerings include:
Designed to meet the unique needs of MSPs, Sophos Central is at the heart of Sophos MSP Connect. The partner dashboard enables MSPs to easily manage multiple customer installations, respond to alerts, enforce two-factor authentication, manage global policies and role-based administration, oversee licenses, and track upcoming renewal dates via a single, intuitive interface. Sophos' unique Synchronized Security approach prevents breaches and automates incident response by integrating Sophos' comprehensive portfolio of endpoint, network and cloud solutions to deliver reduced risk, increased visibility and improved overall security ROI.
About Sophos
As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today's most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs - a global threat intelligence and data science team - Sophos' cloud-native and AI-powered solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cyberattack techniques, including ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, active-adversary breaches, phishing, and more.
Sophos Central, a cloud-native management platform, integrates Sophos' entire portfolio of next-generation products, including the Intercept X endpoint solution and the XG next-generation firewall, into a single "synchronized security" system accessible through a set of APIs. Sophos has been driving a transition to next-generation cybersecurity, leveraging advanced capabilities in cloud, machine learning, APIs, automation, managed threat response, and more, to deliver enterprise-grade protection to any size organization.
Sophos sells its products and services exclusively through a global channel of more than 53,000 partners and managed service providers (MSPs). Sophos also makes its innovative commercial technologies available to consumers via Sophos Home. The company is headquartered in Oxford, U.K., and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol "SOPH". More information is available at www.sophos.com.
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