Sophos offers synchronized IT security solution

Sophos, the world’s leading complete IT security solutions provider to mid-market enterprises, has stepped up protection with the industry’s first synchronized security solution.

Justin Peters, Technology Solutions Director for Asia Pacific of Sophos, said security of data has never been this critical with the proliferation of ransomware or malware.

Sophos protection covers all kinds of devices, Windows, Mac and mobile devices whether Android or iOS, servers, physical or virtual. Sophos also covers firewalls, web, email gateway security and Wi-Fi solutions that customers use at any given time.

The Sophos synchronized security links network and endpoint security to deliver unparalleled protection by automating threat discovery, analysis and response.

“By doing the filtration in a synchronized manner at the perimeter of the organization you can stop all suspicious information before getting in,” said Peters.

“It acts like a checkpoint looking for stuff coming in and out,” he added. The Sophos security solution then offers a 360 degree view and provides an analysis on the root cause of the security issue.

Peters also likened Sophos synchronized security to how security guards of a bank communicate with each other using the walkie-talkie.

“With the use of the walkietalkie, guards communicate with each other real time,” he said.

“What we have is something similar to walkie-talkie acting like a firewall in the exchange of information. We have security at a heartbeat, a communication channel that allows automatic reaction to it.”

If the firewall, which determines what can come in and out, got stalled, or something suspicious is happening, the end point will stop it from connecting out and other parts of the network.

“Our lab is basically sciencebased and our solution looks for suspicious behaviors like hacking malware. We provide background information on which activities are part of the attack so it saves time and gets response immediately. All these need deep technical skills,” he said.

Sumit Bansal, Sophos sales director for ASEAN and Korea, said that organizations whether small, medium or large can benefit from its synchronized security because the protection starts from its firewall all the way to the end point.

“We are stopping the attack at the root cause, no one else can do that,” he said.

Before the synchronized security, it took a minimum of two hours to identify the user, process, machine and wider impact but, with the synchronized security, Sophos activates automatic isolation of endpoints at threat identification in 8 seconds.

Companies that had been hacked or infected with malware and ransomware were proven to have weak security. These companies have inadequate backup security and updates and patches are not implemented swiftly enough, security systems are not implemented or used correctly.

Technology research firm Gartner reported 6,787 vulnerabilities in 2015 or a 31 percent increase from 2014.