Sophos Bags Gartner's Magic Quadrant Leader in Unified Threat Management for 5th Year Running

The new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management is out, and Sophos is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for the fifth year running.

The firm that builds robust IT security architecture has maintained its place as one of only three vendors in the Leaders Quadrant, "And we think that says a lot about our standing in the eyes of customers, partners and industry analysts", the Company said in a blog post on Thursday.

The Magic Quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision.

"Our strategy for the mid-market and our channel is clearly working very well as we deliver on our promise to make security simple with unique innovations that make our UTM products easy to deploy, manage and use. As a result, more and more partners and customers are turning to Sophos for their next firewall and UTM. In fact, the momentum in our growth is outstanding – more than triple the industry growth rate", Sophos said.

With the launch of its new and innovative XG Firewall and Synchronized Security Sophos is also delivering on its vision for the future of IT Security where security components work better together to improve protection and respond to incidents.

And with more and more IT infrastructure moving to the cloud, Sophos' leadership in protecting IaaS further reinforces its ability to anticipate important trends impacting the customers' business and ensure their networks are secure everywhere.

As the only IT security company to be positioned as a Leader across both Unified Threat Management* and Endpoint Protection Platforms**, Sophos complete security offerings uniquely positions it to deliver on the next generation of protection – Synchronized Security.