Sophos

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Sophos

Type	Private
Founded	(1985)
Headquarters	Oxford, UK Burlington, Massachusetts, USA Vancouver, Canada Yokohama, Japan Paris, France Nieder-Olm, Germany Sydney, Australia Singapore Milan, Italy Madrid, Spain
Key people	Steve Munford, CEO Jan Hruska, Co-founder Peter Lammer, Co-founder Richard Jacobs, CTO Gurusamy Sarathy, Chief Technologist Vanja Svajcer, Principal Virus Researcher Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific Mark Harris, SophosLabs Global Director Fraser Howard, Principal Virus Researcher, SophosLabs Mark Hatton, President, North America Gregg Mastoras, Vice President, North America Peter Norman, Executive Director, VP of Marketing & Product Management Jan Jivmark, Director of Global Marketing Michael Rogers, Vice President Channel Sales, North America Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant Ron O’Brien, Senior Security Analyst
Industry	computer security
Products	Sophos Anti-Virus Sophos PureMessage Sophos Client Firewall Sophos ES4000 Sophos Anti-Rootkit Sophos WS1000 Sophos Applications Control Sophos HIPS Behavioral Genotype Protection Sophos SMB Security Suite
Website	www.sophos.com

Sophos is a world leader in integrated threat management solutions, protecting against known and unknown malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications, spam and policy abuse. Protecting more than 35 million users in more than 150 countries, Sophos's reliably engineered, easy-to-operate products secure systems at the desktop, email server and other gateways. The company’s primary customer base is comprised of business, education and government organizations.

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[edit] Company profile

Founded in 1985 by Dr. Peter Lammer and Dr. Jan Hruska, Sophos is a privately owned company and is co-headquarted in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA and Oxford, UK. The company has subsidiaries and branch offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Spain, as well as approximately 1,000 employees worldwide.

Sophos is comprised of two major entities, Sophos corporate and SophosLabs . SophosLabs is the company's 24/7 global network of threat analysis centers. Staffed by seasoned industry analysts and positioned around the world, these centers respond rapidly to emerging viruses and other security threats—no matter how complex—and achieve the industry’s highest level of customer satisfaction.

In 2006, Steve Munford was named CEO of Sophos, and Hruska and Lammer announced they would remain as co-founders and members of the board of directors. Munford was the president of ActiveState prior to its acquisition by Sophos in 2003, and from 2003 to 2005 was president of Sophos for North America. In 2005 he became chief operating officer, responsible for the day-to-day running of the company and its senior management team. Munford holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA from Queen's University, Ontario.

For awhile, Sophos served as the parent company of ActiveState, a developer of programming tools for dynamic programming languages. In February 2006, ActiveState became an independent company when it was sold to Vancouver-based venture capitalist firm Pender Financial.