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Dan Schiappa, General Manager and Senior Vice President for End-User Security at Sophos
Sophos boosts Server
Protection products with
CryptoGuard technology
Sophos, a global leader in network
and endpoint security, has announced
that its next-generation anti-
ransomware CryptoGuard technology
is now available with its Sophos
Server Protection products. With
this optimisation, Sophos Server
Protection now has signature-less
detection capabilities to combat
ransomware – similar to Sophos
Intercept X for endpoints. In
September 2016, Sophos launched
Sophos Intercept X with CryptoGuard,
which stops the spontaneous
encryption of data by ransomware
within seconds of detection.
By adding CryptoGuard to server
security, Sophos is closing a critical
gap by preventing ransomware
attacks that could come in through
rogue, guest or remote access users
or other weaknesses in a company’s
network. For example, if a company
allows bring-your-own-laptops on
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the network, remote access for
employees or is victimised by an insider
cyberthreat, servers become highly
susceptible to ransomware.
“Servers are considered the jackpot for
cybercriminals, since they can store
confidential corporate and employee
information, medical records with
social security numbers or private
customer documents. It would be
devastating for organisations to
lose this kind of sensitive data to
ransomware,” said Dan Schiappa,
Senior Vice President and General
Manager of Sophos’ End-User and
Network Security Groups.
He added, “Anti-ransomware
technology is a critical layer for the
protection and ongoing accessibility
of the information that resides on
servers. Sophos has optimised its server
protection products with CryptoGuard,
adding another layer of next-gen
protection to block this pervasive and
highly-damaging cyberthreat.”
Sophos Server Protection products with
CryptoGuard capabilities now includes
Central Server Protection Advanced
on the cloud-based Sophos Central
platform and Sophos Server Protection
Enterprise, which is managed with a
traditional on-premise console.
Dan Russell, CIO, Pine Cove Consulting,
a Sophos channel partner, said:
“Protection for servers is especially
critical for our customers who allow
remote desktop connections or have
weak desktop credentials, which is a
known vulnerability for ransomware
attacks. Even our customers who have
put every safeguard in place could still
have an exposed server, due to that
one rogue laptop someone connects
into the network.
“Sophos also designed its server
protection to be ‘lightweight’. Many
of our customers are educational
institutions with older computers,
so having an anti-ransomware
capability that doesn’t impact server
performance – no matter how old
or new – is a must. The evolution of
ransomware is a reality our customers
need to deal with right now.”
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