Sophos today leapt forward with a cloud strategy under which it will deliver integrated management and policy enforcement for its endpoint security software and unified threat management (UTM) firewall through a cloud-based console for both its enterprise customers and industry partners.To start, Sophos has brought its Windows-based security and anti-malware endpoint products into this cloud-based management system, and over the next few months, its Apple Macintosh, mobile security and UTM firewall will gain cloud support.[GARTNER:Start security monitoring in the public cloud]Sophos Cloud will allow for uniform policies to be applied to device and application controls as well as Web-based access control, according to CTO Gerhard Eschelbeck.He notes that Sophos Cloud is available as an option for customers, as the traditional on-premises management console
