Sophos Global Managed Threat Response Leader Joins 451 Research Speaker Showcase

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Flagship event goes virtual, offers free registration for first time in 16-year history. Join the session on October 13, 2020 at 12:30pm ET

Oct 05 2020 By

For the past 15 years, 451 Research has hosted its flagship conference, the Hosting + Cloud Transformation Summit (HCTS), in Las Vegas to an audience of IT and security leaders, service providers, financial firms, and enterprises.

This year will be different for a number of reasons. Not only will HCTS 2020 be a fully virtually experience (for obvious reasons), but 451 Research is also now part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, which means this year’s agenda features an expanded showcase of premier speakers who will cover every facet of the emerging technology landscape during a virtual event series that stretches across three weeks. Oh, and the entire event is completely free of charge for the first time ever!

Joining the stacked speaker lineup is our very own J.J. Thompson who leads our Global Managed Threat Response and Security Services practice. The topic of discussion? How to build a security services practice, what challenges you’ll encounter, and how to overcome them. To say that J.J. was genetically engineered to cover this subject would be putting it mildly (more details on the session below).

Again, all sessions—including this one—are free to attend, so register now:

Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Time: 12:30 – 1:15pm ET

The Infinite Game of Cybersecurity: Why Technology and Service Providers Are Adding Advanced Security Services to Their Portfolios

Moderator: Aaron Sherrill, Senior Research Analyst, Information Security
Panelists: J.J. Thompson, Sophos Global Managed Threat Response and Security Services, Sophos; Dustin Rigg Hillard, Chief Technology Officer, eSentire

Synopsis:  When we ask organizations about their biggest concerns, cybersecurity is often at the top of the list. When we ask which area of the business is seeing the largest budget increases, again cybersecurity is at or near the top of the list. In fact, cybersecurity is at or near the top of many lists – biggest pain point, largest shortage of expertise, most important workload-related challenge, just to name a few.

Sensing the shifting tides toward services and the growing demand for security, vendors of every type – MSPs, datacenter providers, technology vendors, professional service firms, VARs and others – are examining how they can add advanced security services to their lineup. At the same time, existing security service providers, such as MDR providers, are rapidly evolving their capabilities to keep pace with the expanding and changing threat landscape and to add value to security teams that are beyond detection and response. Approaches to delivering security services vary. What works well for one company may not for another. In this session, we will examine various approaches and challenges to delivering security services.

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About the Author

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.