The stack had a good run. Defense systems are the future. Introducing Sophos Fusion, the industry’s most complete AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System. Something shifted in late 2025 that I don't think our industry has fully reckoned with yet.
We are going to try something risky here: humility in a blog post about winning an award. Let us start by saying a badge DOES NOT change how Astra-nauts show up for work on a Monday, but when 211 people (as of July 10, 2026) take the time to log into G2 and talk about whether Astra Security holds up to its commitments, months after their engagement closed, we take a minute. This quarter, that added up to a 4.6 out of 5 rating and 72 badges across 19 Grid Reports.
Cybersecurity start-up Tego AI reveals that the new Anthropic's native slack integration, Claude Tag, can be triggered by non-intentional Slack content and drive unauthorized actions across enterprise systems.
Sophos Firewall v22 MR2 is now available AI app control, PQC detection, enhanced Chromebook support, and more. Sophos Firewall v22 bolstered Secure by Design, taking it to a whole new level with major updates to the architecture and new features like the Health Check to help identify high-risk configurations. Sophos Firewall v22 MR1 added several enhancements, including a new set of NDR detections for active threats.
In the March / April 2026 AV-TEST Advanced Threat Protection evaluation, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud once again earned Advanced Approved Endpoint Protection certification with a perfect 35 out of 35 protection score. The result was achieved in testing against advanced ransomware and infostealer attacks on Windows 11, where Acronis successfully defended against all 10 attack scenarios evaluated by AV-TEST.
Bot mitigation is an adversarial game: attackers adapt, defenders respond, and the cycle continues. At Cloudflare, we stay ahead by combining visibility across our global network with signals from the client-side environment. At the network level, we analyze over 1 trillion requests per day to understand reputation, patterns, and anomalies across more than 20% of the web.
Sophos named a 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Email Security Sophos’ first ever recognition as a Customers’ Choice for Email Security. Sophos has been named a 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Email Security. This marks Sophos’ entry into the report, as well as Sophos’ first ever Customers’ Choice distinction for Email Security.