Arrow Adds Sophos to ArrowSphere in the U.K., France and Austria and Signs Distribution Agreement with Sophos in Ireland

Oxford, U.K.  — octobre 10, 2022 —

Global technology provider Arrow Electronics has announced that it has expanded its activity with Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, across Europe.

Channel partners and managed service providers in the U.K., France and Austria can now access Sophos’ products and services via Arrow‘s cloud delivery and management platform, ArrowSphere.

Arrow has added a suite of API-ready products from Sophos’ business portfolio to ArrowSphere, giving the channel access to a powerful choice of cybersecurity tools that can be easily rolled out across customers. Channel partners are also able to manage Sophos products in the cloud-native Sophos Central platform, to navigate quickly between products and across multiple customers, or via Sophos MDR - a dedicated 24/7 threat hunting, detection, investigation, and response service.

The two companies have also penned a new distribution deal in Ireland that starts on the 17th October.  The agreement will enable Sophos to scale its operations in the region, offering greater support for channel partners that are looking to help protect themselves and customers from ever-increasing cyber threats and deliver cyber security-as-a-service.

Mark Barcham, EMEA head of strategic alliances for Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business said, “Last year, we were delighted to enter into a distribution agreement with Sophos, its first in the U.K., to expand its reach to managed service providers and resellers. We have grown our relationship over this time, and this extension means that our channel partners now have even greater choice, and easier access, across more territories. Unfortunately, everyone is a target for cyberattacks, and the addition of Sophos’ business portfolio adds significant value to the suite of security solutions that can be provisioned via ArrowSphere to offer the highest levels of protection.”

Jonathan Bartholomew, vice president sales Northern EMEA, Sophos, said, “Sophos is a partner-first organisation, and by expanding the scope of our work with Arrow, we are furthering our commitment to growth in Europe. Arrow is an established global distributor with a demonstrated history in increasing our reach with MSPs and helping us to expand our business across markets. The availability of our portfolio of next-generation detection and response products and services via Arrow will enable channel partners to easily scale their businesses and offer organizations advanced protection against the constantly changing threat landscape.”

A world leader in cybersecurity, Sophos’ end-to-end security offering, which features solutions such as Sophos Intercept X, Sophos XDR, and Sophos Cloud Security, as well as managed detection and response (MDR), protect against ransomware and other advanced cyberthreats.

The ArrowSphere platform helps channel partners to manage, differentiate and scale their cloud business with easy-to-provision solutions. Its marketplace includes leading hyperscale providers, as well as public and private IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and cloud software offerings. ArrowSphere provides end-to-end cloud lifecycle management with features including automated provisioning, comprehensive billing integration, reporting and predictive analytics. It also offers integrated DevOps and customisable storefronts that enable end customers to manage their own transactions.

À propos de Sophos

Sophos est un leader mondial et un innovateur dans le domaine des solutions de sécurité avancées pour surmonter les cyberattaques. Sophos offre des services managés de détection et réponse (MDR) et de réponse aux incidents, ainsi qu’un vaste portefeuille de technologies de sécurité qui protègent les systèmes endpoint, les réseaux, les messageries et le Cloud. Sophos est l’un des plus grands fournisseurs de cybersécurité et protège aujourd’hui plus de 600 000 entreprises et plus de 100 millions d’utilisateurs dans le monde contre les adversaires actifs, les ransomwares, le phishing, les malwares, etc. Les services et produits de Sophos sont connectés à travers sa console d’administration Sophos Central et sont optimisés par Sophos X-Ops, l’unité de renseignement sur les menaces transversales de la société. La technologie Sophos X-Ops optimise l’ensemble de l’écosystème de cybersécurité adaptatif (ACE) de Sophos, qui comprend un data lake centralisé exploitant un riche ensemble d’API ouvertes disponibles pour les clients, les partenaires, les développeurs et d’autres fournisseurs de cybersécurité et de technologies de l’information. Sophos fournit des services de cybersécurité aux entreprises qui ont besoin de solutions de sécurité entièrement managées. Les clients peuvent également gérer leur cybersécurité directement avec la plateforme d’opérations de sécurité de Sophos ou utiliser une approche hybride en complétant leurs équipes internes avec les services de Sophos, notamment la chasse aux menaces et la remédiation. Sophos vend ses produits par l’intermédiaire d’un réseau mondial de partenaires et de fournisseurs de services managés (MSP : Managed Service Provider). Le siège de l’entreprise est basé à Oxford, au Royaume-Uni. Plus d’informations sont disponibles sur sophos.fr.