Sophos Central for partners and customers: overview and new features Jonathan Shaw Senior Product Manager, Sophos Central
What is Sophos Central? Partner Dashboard Admin Self Service Allows Partners to manage multiple customer installations Endpoint Protection Wireless Allows Users to customize security status and notifications Mobile Protection Web Gateway Server Protection Email Security Encryption Firewall Management
Synchronized Security Platform and Strategy Strengthened Admin | Manage All Sophos Products Self Service | User Customizable Alerts Partner | Management of Customer Installations Sophos Central In Cloud On Prem UTM/Next-Gen Firewall Endpoint/Next-Gen Endpoint Wireless Mobile Email Server Web Encryption Kris to provide insight on why this is so critical to our strategy and the response from partners, finance analysts etc. Cloud Intelligence Analytics | Analyze data across all of Sophos’ products to create simple, actionable insights and automatic resolutions Sophos Labs | 24x7x365, multi-continent operation | URL Database | Malware Identities | File Look-up | Genotypes | Reputation | Behavioural Rules | APT Rules Apps | Anti-Spam | Data Control | SophosID | Patches | Vulnerabilities | Sandboxing | API Everywhere
Sophos Central: Fastest Growing Solution in 30-Year Sophos History 92% Growth in Active Partners 220% Growth in Billings 77% of billings come from competitive wins Endpoint / Mobile Billings up 92% YoY -3.4x in Global billings YoY comparing Apr-Feb FY16 vs Apr-Feb FY15 -Partner growth compares end of Feb16 vs Feb15 -Endpoint/Mobile billings YoY comparing Apr-Feb FY16 vs Apr-Feb FY15 <delete> Key to the KaBoom Images 3.4X Growth 77% of Q3 was Competitive Wins 92% YoY Partner Growth -Fun fact. The last day of February we did almost $600k in billings which is equivalent to 60% of the ENTIRE month of April FY16. Server Billings up 157% YoY Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
Sophos Central: Partner Dashboard Partner-centric Create trials Manage licenses Manage security MSP
Sophos Central: Partner View upsell and cross-sell opportunities View renewal opportunities Easily apply licenses
New platform features These cross products and aren’t licensed separately Over the last 12 months we’ve added: Role based administration control (RBAC) Audit logging New UI Endpoint update caching Self service portal for employees SIEM integration MSP licensing Improved in-product trials
RBAC – Role Based Admin Control Managing “scopes” (e.g. offices) coming next quarter Custom roles coming later
New platform features These cross products and aren’t licensed separately Over the last 12 months we’ve added: Role based administration control (RBAC) Audit logging New UI Endpoint update caching Self service portal for employees SIEM integration MSP licensing Improved in-product trials
RBAC – Role Based Admin Control Managing “scopes” (e.g. offices) coming next quarter Custom roles coming later
Audit logs “Who did what, when”
Endpoint update caching Install and update from the local network
Self service portal for employees Employees have access to email and encryption functionality
Coming soon: SIEM – Security Incident Event Management APIs for 3rd party integrations Open-sourced script provides CEF formatted Syslog messages
Managed Service Provider licensing Monthly Usage based In arrears Aggregated
Coming soon: in-product trial improvements Initial trial process unchanged In the admin console, existing customers can trigger a 30 day trial of any unlicensed products
New products New separately licensed products: “Cloud” Email protection Full disk encryption management WiFi access point management Intercept X Mobile Security Additional endpoint features included in existing licenses: Download reputation checking for servers and user devices App control for servers and user devices Server MTD (malicious traffic detection) Server peripheral control
Email A “clean feed” of email, directly from the Interwebs Works with Office 365
Encryption Easy management of BitLocker Identify issues, confirm compliance. Employees can recover from forgotten logins using self-service portal
WiFi Cloud managed WiFi access points
Intercept X New protection capabilities, in particular against ransomware Root cause analysis and business impact
Mobile Security Anti-malware for Android devices
Additional endpoint features Included in advanced licenses: Download reputation checking for servers and user devices App control for servers and user devices Server MTD (malicious traffic detection) Server peripheral control New client UI