TSG wins key Sophos award for 8th year in a row

TSG is proud to announce that we have won the Sophos 2018 UK Small Business Partner of the Year Award for the 8^th consecutive year. 

Winning this award is a huge achievement. However, winning this award for 8 consecutive years is a testament to our strong partnership with Sophos, hard work and highly-accredited staff.

The Sophos Small Business Partner of the Year award takes the following areas into consideration:

• Commitment to training
• Product adoption
• Security council
• Promoting the importance of security through events and webinars

TSG’s Chief Technology Officer Paul Burns and Senior Technical Specialist Grant Campbell attended the partner conference to accept the award. Burns said of the latest award win: “We’re delighted to once again be awarded SMB Partner of the Year. Our partnership with Sophos continues to go from strength to strength as we collaborate on security solutions, events and webinars.

Our staff contains some of the most highly-qualified Sophos experts in the field and lets our customers know that they’re in safe hands with TSG and Sophos.

We’re looking forward to our flagship security event with Sophos, UNW and Barclays next month, which will give attendees a well-rounded view of the cyber-security landscape, from the perspective of security and legal experts.”

(Left to right: Adam Bradley – Regional Vice President of Sophos UK and Ireland, Grant Campbell – Senior Technical Specialist at TSG, Paul Burns – Chief Technology Officer at TSG and Jonathon Bartholomew, Sophos UK Channel Director)

TSG understands the importance of business security and the need for businesses to keep track of day-to-day risks. Sophos Central provides businesses with the ability to manage all their Sophos business security functions in one place. The Sophos Central dashboards allows customers to observe potential threats which may infect their business.

“Having TSG support gives me the complete peace of mind that our network is in safe hands. What’s reassuring for me is access to full system reporting and dashboards, courtesy of TSG, which provide me with information on business performance at any given time.”

Ged O’Hara, IT Manager at TCAM Asset Management

TSG is passionate about making sure our customers are in the best position against the increasing cyberthreat landscape and have the right amount of protection, which is why we are happy to be recognised as a Sophos platinum partner.

“Every year Sophos recruit more partners in this space and with extreme growth across our channels through the launch of our new solutions and partner programme, so staying in this position is a testament to all at TSG” – Michelle Trimble, National Channel Account Executive at Sophos.

TSG was given the opportunity to attend the 2018 partner conference at 8 Northumberland in London. The event was an awe-inspiring, jam-packed event with an array of entertainment including a Keynote speech from Stephen Attenborough, Sophos Discovery Talks and virtual reality gaming.

Grant Campbell, one of TSG’s Senior Technical Specialists who has worked with Sophos customers on all things IT security wrote a blog on the event. Check out CTO Paul Burns testing out some virtual reality (VR) kit (right).

We raise a glass to the success of 2018 and look forward to continuing our journey and embracing the innovative developments with Sophos moving forward.