Security Newsmakers

Newsmaker: Sophos CEO Steve Munford

Steve Munford took over Sophos’ leadership as the U.K.-based AV company mounted an aggressive effort to expand its market share, particularly in North America, against industry giants Symantec and McAfee. Munford was president of ActiveState when it was acquired by Sophos in 2003 and served as president for North America from 2003-2005.

In this interview, Information Security magazine’s Neil Roiter talks with Munford about the company’s acquisition and integration of encryption vendor Utimaco and Sophos strategy for leveraging the acquisition to boost sales in North America and Europe. Munford describes how Sophos engineering culture helps it integrate acquisitions and develop technology in-house.

 

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RSA cryptographer Ari Juels on RFID, encryption

SearchSecurity.com’s Neil Roiter interviews well known cryptographer Ari Juels about RFID security, cloud storage innovations and his new novel.

 

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