Sophos recently said that Miami-Dade Public Schools has made selection of Sophos to give protection to ninety thousand desktops and fifty thousand email accounts from spam, viruses, worms, spyware and possible malicious apps for the next four years. The district is also going to make use of Sophos Professional Services to guarantee that the switch from its legacy McAfee solution to Sophos is completed without a glitch.
After over a year of assessing many security suites, Sophos was chosen as the best-of-the-breed option for the district depended upon extensiveness of coverage; tempo of finding; better PC performance; the size, momentum and regularity of updates; an easy console; better-quality finding technology; and the excellence of Sophos’s technical support.
Thomas Sims, director, network services, Office of Information Technology at Miami-Dade County Public Schools,
Throughout the evaluation, Sophos was enormously attentive to our needs and requirements. In the end, we decided to invest in Sophos based on its exceptional level of service and expertise; simplified management capabilities; and proactive, multi-tier protection across our entire district.
Mark Hatton, president of Boston-based, Sophos, was quoted as saying,
We are pleased to have been selected by one of the most widely recognized school districts in the United States to provide comprehensive security at the endpoint and gateway. Sophos is committed to providing flexible, reliable and centrally managed solutions that are consistent with the district’s needs.
