  sophos is a developer and vendor of computer security software and hardware, providing communication endpoint, encryption, network security, email security and mobile security as well as unified threat management products. sophos is largely focused on providing security to organisations and businesses. sophoslabs is the company's global network of threat analysis centres. sophos has won several awards for its consumer-facing naked security blog.security blogger awards - 2014 social security blogger award winners and nominees2012 social security blogger award winners sophos competes in the antivirus industry against avira, eset, f-secure, kaspersky, mcafee, panda security and symantec among others. sophos competes in the utm and network security industry against alienvault, fortinet and panda security among others. == company profile == sophos is a privately own british-american computer software and hardware company, founded by jan hruska and peter lammer,sophos: the early years and is headquartered in abingdon, england. the company has subsidiaries in: australia, austria, canada, dubai (uae), france, germany, hungary, italy, india, japan, netherlands, poland, singapore, spain, sweden and switzerland. the software production and threat analysis centers (known as sophoslabs) are located in: abingdon (england), ahmedabad (india), budapest (hungary), linz (austria), sydney (australia) and vancouver (canada). all these sophoslabs serve as threat and malware analysis centers. in addition, in abingdon there is the development of the antivirus, the utm and the c
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