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The Institute for Security, Technology and Society (ISTS) at Dartmouth College is pleased to host Kris Hagerman ’86, the Chief Executive Officer of Sophos. This one-hour virtual event will focus on cybersecurity challenges and threats as they relate to business.  The event will begin with a brief presentation by Mr. Hagerman, followed by a discussion and Q&A moderated by Professor David Kotz, the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a faculty affiliate of ISTS.

The event is open to public and the link to join is here: http://bit.ly/istssophos or https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/99700363473?pwd=QytnZjM4MEpWYVdvTzhCVjU4WmJ5Zz09. The event will be recorded and captioned.

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About Kris
Kris Hagerman joined Sophos in 2012 as CEO. He is responsible for all aspects of Sophos’ strategic direction and business operations. Prior to Sophos, Kris was CEO of Corel Corporation. Previously, Kris served in senior leadership positions at Symantec and Veritas Software. Earlier in his career, Kris was founder and CEO of BigBook, an online yellow pages service and founder and CEO of Affinia, an online contextual advertising network. Kris also held positions at Silicon Graphics and McKinsey & Company. Kris has a bachelor’s degree in Russian and economics from Dartmouth College, an M.Phil. in international relations from Cambridge University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

About Sophos
As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects more than 500,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – cloud-native and AI-powered Sophos solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cyberattack techniques, including ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, active-adversary breaches, phishing, and more. Sophos Central, a cloud-native management platform, integrates the entire Sophos portfolio of next-generation products, including the Intercept X endpoint solution and Sophos Firewall appliances. Sophos Central also manages security operations through its endpoint detection and response (EDR) and cross-platform extended detection and response (XDR) offerings. Many organizations also add 24x7 monitoring and threat detection via Sophos managed threat response (MTR) services. Sophos solutions are also accessible via a robust set of APIs enabling customers, partners, developers and many leading vendors to build tools and integrations that create an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem. Sophos sells its products and services exclusively through a global channel of more than 50,000 partners and managed service providers (MSPs). Sophos also makes its innovative commercial technologies available to consumers via Sophos Home. The company is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.