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Sophos and Utimaco merger
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The Sophos-Utimaco partnership brings together two industry leaders with a wealth of security experience, combining encryption, endpoint protection, and network access control expertise
Sophos and Utimaco products are already used to protect information – blocking malware created by criminals for financial gain and encrypting data to prevent information disclosure. Bringing these two core security measures together will enable you to manage today’s complex threats and comply with the increasing number of security regulations simply and effectively.
Our combined expertise and integration plans will bring you all the protection, support and return-on-investment benefits of managing your security and compliance through one expert company. Uniquely designed to simplify the challenge of managing all your endpoint computers, our complete information security and control strategy will give you a real solution to the need for better control of sensitive information, user behavior and computer configuration - without you having to add more complexity to your existing security infrastructure.
One vendor – excellent protection
As Sophos and Utimaco customers you'll continue to benefit from the powerful engineering, strong support, and award-winning products you already enjoy. And you can look forward to the advantages that our continuing commitment to developing best-of-breed solutions will bring. At the same time, the combination of our two companies will bring some new and exciting capabilities.
A successful merger will disruptively recalibrate vision for the 2009 Magic Quadrant
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SafeGuard Enterprise, Utimaco's flagship product, will continue to receive strong investments to maintain its longstanding pre-eminence in data security and enhance its DLP offerings. Furthermore, integrating SafeGuard with the Sophos product line will bring the benefits and protection of encryption to a much boarder user base.
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Sophos Endpoint Security and Control has been enhanced with the SafeGuard encryption technology to give you the option of adding comprehensive data protection at the endpoint. Choosing this option will enable you to benefit from integrated proactive protection from data loss, viruses, unauthorized applications, and unmanaged computers.
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Sophos NAC's endpoint assessment and control capabilities will be extended to include data security checks allowing customers to significantly reduce the burden of complying with today’s security regulations.
Gartner Magic Quadrants
Gartner places both Sophos and Utimaco in its leaders quadrant.
To be seen as a leader by Gartner, an organization must demonstrate ability to execute and a completeness of vision. Its solutions must raise the competitive bar for all products in the market and have the potential to change the course of the industry.