Gartner has positioned Sophos as a "Leaders" in the 2012 "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection”.
According to Gartner, "Leaders have products that work well for Gartner clients in small and large deployments. They have long-term road maps that follow and/or influence Gartner's vision of the developing needs of buyers in the market. Leaders make their competitors' sales staffs nervous and force competitors' technical staffs to follow their lead. Their MDP (mobile data protection) products are well-known to clients and are frequently found on RFP shortlists."
The Report stated that Gartner clients know that data leakage can cost them money and their reputations, and eventually most companies will make MDP investments, whether they are small or large enterprises, or bound by compliance rules or not. They will make those purchases faster when the solutions are easy to understand and manage, easy to use, and priced affordably.
Matthias Pankert, VP, Product Management, Mobile Data Protection, Sophos, said, "We believe this latest recognition is testament to our continued advancements in both data protection and mobile device security, and to the market's subsequent response. Mobile data protection is a cornerstone of our Complete Security strategy, which provides customers and partners with a truly compelling value proposition that incorporates endpoint, data, email, web, server and mobile protection."
