Rest assured, Sophos will continue to produce SEC releases and support customers using them.
We are keen to avoid customers feeling forced to migrate- over time, we want to make Sophos Cloud something that our existing customers actively want to migrate to. This will be a gradual process, so SEC will continue to be an actively developed product for customers who do not want to switch.
The initial Sophos Cloud release is targetted at smaller organisations (<100 users) in the UK and US, and will require a new license. We are working hard to be able to improve on all of these things, so that new and existing customers of all sizes and in all regions can use Sophos Cloud.
It is using the same anti-virus component, yes. The updating and management components are different though.
We will be adding features from across our product range (e.g. mobile, network security) over time, including the most used endpoint features. For instance, we are aiming to add web filtering to Sophos Cloud early next year.
