Thank You for an Incredible 2024: The Major Headlines and Moments From Sophos This Year

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From cyber attacks across the geopolitical landscapes, to product updates that help small businesses, Sophos was there in 2024

17 Dic 2024 Por

As we approach the end of 2024, we’d like to share a look back at some of our most exciting moments this year.

It was a time of positive change, growth, and innovation as we navigated a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape. No matter the scope of the event, Sophos was there to protect our joint customers — our threat researchers constantly monitored the geopolitical landscapes, broke news regarding state-sponsored actors, and protected businesses of all sizes.

Key Milestones

We’d like to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to our channel partners for an incredible year. To celebrate, we wanted to recap some of our favorite stories, moments, headlines, and research from the past year. And if you’d prefer a video version, you can watch that here:

Of course, this is only a small selection of everything that happened with Sophos this year. If you want to stay up-to-date on our latest security research, news and product announcements, subscribe to Partner News, watch out for our newsletters or follow us on LinkedIn.

  • February: Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR integrate with Veeam, improving the detection and prevention of ransomware attacks.
  • Also in February: Sophos launches the Partner Care portal, a dedicated team of Sophos experts who are available 24/7 to respond to partners’ operational, non-sales related questions.
  • March: The annual Sophos Security Threat Report finds that cybercrime disproportionately affects small businesses.
  • August: Sophos X-Ops unveils the details of sophisticated hacking campaign from Chinese state-sponsored actors, known as “Operation Crimson Palace” at the annual Black Hat conference, one of the largest cybersecurity events in the world.
  • Also in August: A Sophos-commissioned study finds that burnout, fatigue, and cynicism are on the rise across the cybersecurity workforce.
  • September: Sophos is named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant️ for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the 15th time.
  • October: Sophos X-Ops publishes research on another Chinese state-sponsored campaign that’s been ongoing for several years known as “Pacific Rim,” which consisted of malicious activity from several threat actors, including Volt Typhoon, APT31 and APT41/Winnti.

Unforgettable Moments at Channel Events

And that’s not all! This year, we connected at events across the globe. Thank you for joining us and contributing to their success – take a look at this video for a glimpse of the vibrant atmosphere:

Thank You For Your Partnership!

This year would not have been the same without your unwavering support and dedication. Together, we’ve navigated challenges, reached significant milestones, and achieved remarkable growth. As we step into 2025, we look forward to continuing our partnership and building on this year’s momentum to reach even greater heights together. Thank you for being an integral part of our journey!

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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.