Talk:Sophos/Archives/2016

A few small edits
Hey, full disclosure: I'm an employee of Sophos. I would like to request some help in editing a few things on our page. Below are the requests and sources. Thanks!

ADDITION: Under the top/main section, there's this paragraph, "Sophos competes in the antivirus industry against avast!, AVG, Avira, ESET, F-Secure, G-Data, Kaspersky, McAfee, Panda Security, Symantec, Trend Micro, and Webroot among others." Can we add the following to the above paragraph: "Sophos also competes in the UTM and network security industry against Barracuda Networks, Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco, Dell, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, and WatchGuard among others."

DELETION: Under the "Key People" list/section on the right rail, please remove "James Lyne" - he is not an executive. ADDITION: Under the "Key People" list/section on the right rail, please add "Hemal Patel" - he is on the executive team as the Senior Vice President, IT and Operations.

ADDITION: Under the "History" section, can we add the following... "In February 2014, Sophos announced that it had acquired Cyberoam Technologies, a provider of network security products."

ADDITION: Under the "History" section, can we add the following... "In June 2015, Sophos announced that it would go public at a valuation of £1 billion ($1.6 billion)."

REPLACEMENT: For the logo, can we update the file to reflect the updated logo (with a new blue).

REPLACEMENTS: I'd like to update the sources for the following references so that they're from third parties and not sophos.com...

5. "Apax Partners to acquire majority stake in Sophos"

10. "Sophos Acquires Mobile Security Startup Mojave Networks"

11. "Sophos to offer $340 million takeover bid for German rival"

12. "Sophos completes takeover offer of Utimaco Safeware AG"

13. "Apax Partners to acquire majority stake in Sophos"

14. Sophos Acquires Internet Security Appliance Maker Astaro

15. Sophos acquires mobile management provider Dialogs

16. Sophos Acquires Network Security Firm Cyberoam Technologies

PhoenixofKT (talk) 20:31, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've not added the competitors paragraph, as the corresponding paragraph has been removed (rightly, as that is somewhat unencyclopedic). I added the first history para, the second looks like it has already been added. I've changed most of the refs you requested, and I'm about to change the logo as requested. — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 08:44, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Logo is done — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 08:50, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Complaint
The line :

'Over 35 million users from organisations of all sizes benefit from its software and first-class 24/7 technical support.'

sounds a bit too much like corporate spin. I hope this wasn't written by someone in the company. In any case I'll leave for it for now because I have no experience with there products.

definitely sounds like corporate spin to me...

Feel free to neutralize, to wiki-ize. Be bold. I agree. Rags (talk) 19:53, 2 August 2016 (UTC) Rags (talk) 19:53, 2 August 2016 (UTC)