Sophos News Page - The Evolution of Our Blog

Almost three months have passed since our last blog post. A lot has changed in the meantime, as we used this break to prepare something new for you: our new “Sophos News page”. From now on, we’ll be posting again and regularly sharing important information about Sophos. You’ll no longer find this content on blog.avanet.ch, but here at sophos.avanet.ch/news/.

Update: In the meantime, we have moved to avanet.com. As a result, this URL has changed again. You can now find our blog at avanet.com/blog.

For our existing blog subscribers who signed up to our newsletter, nothing changes. You will continue to receive e-mail notifications about the latest articles without needing to make any changes.

Why this change?

When we wrote our first blog post in December 2014, our start-up was still at a very early stage, even after two years. We didn’t yet know exactly which services we should specialise in. Our offering at the time was still very broad. This was reflected in our blog, where we published posts on Remote Desktop Servers, web design, security, guides on Sophos and Office 365, and of course milestones from our own company, Avanet. It was a colourful mix of very different topics. Even then, it bothered us that anyone following our blog would inevitably come across articles they weren’t interested in.

As the direction of Avanet gradually became clearer and more and more of our core business revolved around Sophos, our blog posts increasingly focused almost exclusively on Sophos. As these posts became more frequent, our subscriber numbers grew as well. That showed us that it no longer made sense to cover other topics in future. Our customers and subscribers want to read about Sophos. And since we were planning to consolidate all Sophos topics under one roof on our new website sophos.avanet.ch anyway, we took our blog offline on 29/09/2017 and launched our new news page at sophos.avanet.ch/news/.

What’s new?

The first thing you’ll probably notice is the new page structure. Older articles are now displayed in a more compact format on the overview page, making it much easier and more pleasant to browse previous posts. To better organise the Sophos articles by topic, we have created four new categories:

Sophos Central

In this category, we keep you up to date on every product in Sophos Central. Here you’ll find information about important updates, new features, and new products that have been added to Sophos Central. From time to time, we’ll also give you a look at the roadmap so that you know what to expect from Sophos Central in future. With reviews and hands-on reports, we help you make the right decisions.

Sophos Firewall

This category covers everything related to firewall hardware (SG, XG) and firewall software (UTM, SFOS) from Sophos. Here we inform you about important firmware updates and new features, and our reviews and experience reports help you make the right choices. To give you visibility into the future plans of Sophos, we’ll also occasionally share insights into the current roadmap.

Sophos Marketplace

Do you regularly shop in our Sophos store or already use our Sophos subscriptions in the licensing portal? Then this category is almost a must-read. Here we inform you about price changes and when new Sophos products are added or updated. We will also report here on the ongoing development of our new “Sophos licensing portal”.

Security Life

In this category, we focus on security in everyday life, but always in relation to Sophos products. We inform you about current threats, new malware and vulnerabilities, and provide guidance on how you can use Sophos to protect yourself. We report from the front line and behind the scenes on innovations presented at the Sophos roadshows and the annual Sophos Discover Conference.

You will find future how-to guides for Sophos products in our Knowledge Base. A few days ago, we migrated older tutorials from our blog into the Knowledge Base.

These categories are designed not only to make navigation on our site easier; they are now also an integral part of our newsletter and RSS feeds. This means you can now decide for yourself which topics interest you and which articles you want to be notified about.

Update profile for existing subscribers

If you have already subscribed to our blog, you technically don’t need to do anything and will continue to receive an e-mail whenever a new article is published. However, if you no longer want to be notified about every piece of news, you can use the “Update profile” link at the bottom of the next e-mail notification. Simply deselect the categories you no longer wish to receive updates about in future.

New “Follow us” page

As part of the new news page, we have also documented the different ways you can follow us. These options are now described in detail on our Follow Us page.

We hope you like our new news page and that we’ve made it easier for you to keep up with our updates.