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Sophos acquires DIALOGS to provide the industry’s most complete mobile device protection
April 2012 by Marc Jacob
Sophos announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DIALOGS, a privately-held provider of mobile management solutions, headquartered in Germany. DIALOGS, one of Europe’s leading mobile device management (MDM) providers with customers such as BMW AG, Daimler AG, Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp, brings twenty years of experience in mobile product development. This acquisition further solidifies Sophos’s leadership position within enterprise mobile protection.
The increased prevalence of smartphones and tablets represents a major shift in the way people and businesses work and collaborate. IT staff at enterprises of all sizes are faced with new challenges and risks in handling and securing an array of corporate and personal devices. That, coupled with the ever-expanding usage of apps and the threat of device loss or theft, reinforces the importance of mobile data protection solutions.
Sophos allays IT worries and ensures that customers have complete protection everywhere and on any device, all without impacting business productivity. The company’s award-winning solution – Sophos Mobile Control – is designed specifically for enterprises to simply and quickly secure, monitor and control mobile devices. As a key concern for mobile device users is having secure access to corporate data, the combination of Sophos’s encryption and data protection capabilities and DIALOGS’ SaaS-based and on-premises mobile management technology provides a unique value proposition to the market – secure collaboration from everywhere.
Together with DIALOGS, Sophos strengthens its mobile footprint, providing customers with complete security for their mobile workforces. DIALOGS offers an MDM solution, smartMan, which is already at the core of Sophos Mobile Control and will form the basis for MDM and mobile management solutions that will be integrated into the Sophos UTM-based (unified threat management) suite. Additionally, DIALOGS offers mobile communication services for fast and reliable mobile messaging and location-based services, which Sophos will continue to support.
About DIALOGS
DIALOGS, one of Europe’s leading mobile data communication providers, enables the professional use of locating mobile devices via GSM and GPS as well as fast and reliable short message service (SMS) communication worldwide. DIALOGS´ core competencies are mobile device management for smartphones and tablets, and remote access solutions for optimised and secure communication. DIALOGS solutions can be used with all major devices and operating systems, such as Apple iPhones and iPads, including the latest iOS5 release, Google Android phones and tablets, Symbian, Windows Mobile devices and RIM BlackBerry.
