- Kris Hagerman, CEO, Sophos. Sophos today announced that Kris Hagerman will become the company’s new CEO effective immediately, and will join the company’s board. Hagerman succeeds Steve Munford, who will become Non-Executive Chairman of the board.
- Kris was Chief Executive Officer at Corel, and Group President, Data Center Management at Symantec. Kris Hagerman joined Thoma Bravo in 2012. Kris Hagerman is currently Chief Executive Officer and Director - Sophos (org chart).
BOSTON, MA and OXFORD, UK - September 4, 2012 - Sophos today announced that Kris Hagerman will become the company’s new chief executive officer effective immediately, and will join the company. BOSTON, MA and OXFORD, UK-(Marketwire - Sep 4, 2012) - Sophos today announced that Kris Hagerman will become the company's new chief executive officer effective immediately, and will join the.
Today we announced that Sophos has acquired Cyberoam, a leading UTM company headquartered in Ahmedabad, India. I just wanted to share a few thoughts about the announcement, and mention some of the reasons why I think bringing Sophos and Cyberoam together is an exciting combination for our two companies, as well as for our customers, our partners, and the industry as a whole.
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This transaction brings together two highly successful companies in network security, and positions us well to succeed further in this dynamic and fast-growing market. We believe Cyberoam and Sophos are a compelling combination in several key respects:
- The right market: This represents Sophos “doubling down” on our commitment to the network security market.
- The right technology: Cyberoam’s technology has a similar product architecture as our Sophos UTM, which will aid in longer-term integration. And each company has a variety of complementary technologies that offer opportunities to sell new and differentiated products.
- The right place: Cyberoam allows us to scale our engineering efforts with a strong and highly innovative product engineering center in India; expands our resources in UTM-oriented sales, marketing, customer support, and operations; and allows us to drive growth in several emerging markets, including India, the Middle East and Africa, where Cyberoam has a particularly strong presence.
Our goal in coming together is very simple: to expand and accelerate on the success that each company is already enjoying today. According to IDC, the UTM market is approximately $2.5 billion and growing at 20% per year. Both Cyberoam and Sophos are performing very well in the UTM market, and outgrowing our competitors. But our ambition is to become a much larger player in network security – not only in UTM, but in a number of exciting adjacent markets that are growing as fast or even faster, like next-generation firewall (NGFW), advanced persistent threat (APT) protection, and wireless security.
In terms of our integration plans, our approach is simple: “Business as usual – but better.” We don’t expect to make any changes to either company’s 2014 UTM product roadmaps. Over time, we will certainly look for opportunities to leverage the best of both companies to enhance our existing products and to add new products to our roadmap.
You will hear more in the days and weeks to come as to why we feel this combination is great news for our customers, our partners, and the industry as a whole. In the meantime, I encourage you to watch the short video from me and Hemal Patel, the CEO of Cyberoam, that provides a bit more background on the transaction and why we’re excited about it. If you are a Sophos customer, please check our FAQ for more background. And if you’re a partner, be sure to visit the Sophos Partner Portal or Cyberoam Partner Portal for more information.
We have an exciting road ahead of us at Sophos, and I am thrilled to have the Cyberoam team on board to help us accelerate our momentum.
Yours sincerely,
Kris Hagerman, Sophos CEO
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 1985; 36 years ago |
| Founder | |
| Headquarters | Abingdon, England |
Key people | |
| Products | Security software |
| Services | Computer security |
| Revenue | $640.7 million (2018)[1] |
| US$46.9 million (2018)[1] | |
| US$66.3 million (2018)[1] | |
| Owner | Thoma Bravo |
Number of employees | 3,319 (2018)[1] |
| Website | sophos.com |
Sophos Group plc is a British security software and hardware company. Sophos develops products for communication endpoint, encryption, network security, email security, mobile security and unified threat management. Sophos is primarily focused on providing security software to 100- to 5,000-seat organizations. While not a primary focus, Sophos also protects home users, through free and paid antivirus solutions (Sophos Home/Home Premium) intended to demonstrate product functionality. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Thoma Bravo in February 2020.
History[edit]
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Sophos was founded by Jan Hruska and Peter Lammer and began producing its first antivirus and encryption products in 1985.[2] During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Sophos primarily developed and sold a range of security technologies in the UK, including encryption tools available for most users (private or business). In the late 1990s, Sophos concentrated its efforts on the development and sale of antivirus technology, and embarked on a program of international expansion.[3]
In 2003, Sophos acquired ActiveState, a North American software company that developed anti-spam software. At that time viruses were being spread primarily through email spam and this allowed Sophos to produce a combined anti-spam and antivirus solution.[4] In 2006, Peter Gyenes and Steve Munford were named chairman and CEO of Sophos, respectively. Jan Hruska and Peter Lammer remain as members of the board of directors.[5] In 2010, the majority interest of Sophos was sold to Apax.[6] In 2010, Nick Bray, formerly Group CFO at Micro Focus International, was named CFO of Sophos.[7]
In 2011, Utimaco Safeware AG (acquired by Sophos in 2008–9) were accused of supplying data monitoring and tracking software to partners that have sold to governments such as Syria: Sophos issued a statement of apology and confirmed that they had suspended their relationship with the partners in question and launched an investigation.[8][9] In 2012, Kris Hagerman, formerly CEO at Corel Corporation, was named CEO of Sophos and joined the company's board. Former CEO Steve Munford became non-executive chairman of the board.[10] In February 2014, Sophos announced that it had acquired Cyberoam Technologies, a provider of network security products.[11] In June 2015, Sophos announced plans to raise $US100 million on the London Stock Exchange.[12] Sophos was floated on the FTSE in September 2015.[13]
On 14 October 2019 Sophos announced that Thoma Bravo, a US-based private equity firm, made an offer to acquire Sophos for US$7.40 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $3.9 billion. The board of directors of Sophos stated their intention to unanimously recommend the offer to the company's shareholders.[14] On 2 March 2020 Sophos announced the completion of the acquisition.[15]
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From September 2003 to February 2006, 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.[16] In 2007, Sophos acquired ENDFORCE, a company based in Ohio, United States, which developed and sold security policy compliance and Network Access Control (NAC) software.[17][18] In November 2016, Sophos acquired Barricade, a pioneering start-up with a powerful behavior-based analytics engine built on machine learning techniques,[19] to strengthen synchronized security capabilities and next-generation network and endpoint protection. In February 2017, Sophos acquired Invincea, a software company that provides malware threat detection, prevention, and pre-breach forensic intelligence.[20][21][22]
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In March 2020, Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9 billion.[23]
See also[edit]
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- ^'Sophos Plans $100 Million London IPO'.
- ^'Sophos joins the UK's top public companies in the FTSE 250'.
- ^'Sophos founders exit before Thoma Bravo sale'. Global Capital. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^'Sophos opens new chapter with take-private acquisition'.
- ^'ActiveState Acquired by Employees and Pender Financial Group; Company Renews Focus on Tools and Solutions for Dynamic Languages'. Business Wire. 22 February 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
- ^'Sophos buys Endforce for network access control'. Network World. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
- ^Wauters, Robin. 'Sophos beefs up on online security, acquires Dutch security software firm SurfRight for $31.8 million'. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^https://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2016/11/sophos-acquires-security-analytics-start-up-in-ireland.aspx
- ^'Sophos Adds Advanced Machine Learning to Its Next-Generation Endpoint Protection Portfolio with Acquisition of Invincea'. Sophos. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^'Sophos grows anti-malware ensemble with Invincea'. Sophos. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
One may ask, if you already have great next-generation technology, why do you need Invincea’s technology?...Think of Invincea as the superhero that takes our ensemble to the next level – the entity that adds neural network-based machine learning to the team.
- ^'Sophos to Acquire Invincea to Add Industry Leading Machine Learning to its Next Generation Endpoint Protection Portfolio'. Invincea. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^'Thoma Bravo completes $3.9B Sophos acquisition'. TechCrunch. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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