Five Sophos Executives Named 2021 CRN Channel Chiefs

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Senior Vice President Kendra Krause further honored on CRN’s Exclusive List of 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs

Feb 09 2021 By

We’re excited that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named five Sophos executives to its esteemed list of 2021 Channel Chiefs. The Sophos executives are once again recognized as Channel Chiefs for their channel leadership and dedication, industry prestige and exceptional accomplishments as channel advocates.

Sophos executives recognized on the list, which is comprised of IT channel vendor executives who have influenced the channel with cutting-edge strategies, programs and partnerships, include:

  • Kendra Krause, senior vice president of global channels and sales operations
  • Erin Malone, senior vice president of Americas sales
  • Scott Barlow, vice president of global MSP
  • Oscar Chavez-Arrieta, vice president of Latin America sales
  • Allison Clarke, senior director of global channel programs

“Cybercriminals are sharpening their skills and raising the stakes – increasing their ransom demands and now engaging in secondary extortion, as evidenced in the Sophos 2021 Threat Report. The IT channel is at a critical inflection point with cybersecurity front and center,” said Krause. “Sophos is committed to protecting channel partners and the end users that they serve from these advanced and potentially business-crippling threats. Sophos solutions and services are industry best, and the growth opportunities for partners are limitless. Our first-class team will stop at nothing to ensure their security and success.”

Krause is also honored on CRN’s list of the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs for 2021 for the fifth consecutive year. This exclusive list recognizes individuals who stand at the very top of this elite group and whose leadership will greatly impact the future IT community, driving growth and innovation.

Sophos’ innovative, next-generation solutions and services are available exclusively to the IT channel through the award-winning Sophos Partner Program. Sophos Rapid Response is the program’s newest offering, providing partners an industry-first, fixed-fee remote incident response service to identify and neutralize active cybersecurity attacks. The unique offering is part of Sophos Managed Threat Response, which further provides fully-managed threat hunting, detection and response combining Sophos’ consistently top-rated endpoint protection and intelligent EDR with a world-class team of experts to neutralize the most sophisticated and complex threats.

“CRN’s 2021 Channel Chiefs list includes the industry’s biggest channel evangelists, a group of individuals who work tirelessly on behalf of their partners and drive growth through the development of strong partner programs and innovative business strategies that help bring business-critical solutions to market,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “The Channel Company is proud to recognize these channel influencers and looks forward to following their continued success.”

CRN’s 2021 Channel Chiefs list, including the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs, is featured online at www.CRN.com/ChannelChiefs and in the February 2021 issue of CRN Magazine.

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.