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Sophos positioned in leaders quadrant of Gartner 2009 Magic AQuadrant for Endpoint protection platforms
May 2009 by Marc Jacob
Sophos announced that it has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders’ Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, 2009.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms is based on an assessment of a company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. According to Gartner, "Leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort in all execution and vision categories. Their actions in advanced malware protection, data protection and/or management capabilities raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry."
The report observes that, "Standard anti-malware signatures engines are rapidly losing effectiveness against the surging volume of new threats and have very little value against targeted threats. Non signature based solutions such as HIPS and proficient operations procedures such as asset discovery, configuration management, vulnerability assessment, and software management, are needed as a means to help inoculate PC against unknown threats. Endpoint protection platform (EPP) vendors continue to improve data protection. Several added or improved full-disk and removable media encryption, content-aware data loss prevention (DLP), and device and port controls. Data protection strategies must include consideration of the role of EPP vendors in providing some or all of this technology."
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
