https://news.hitb.org/ en https://news.hitb.org/content/fortinet-sues-sophos-over-alleged-employee-poaching <article data-history-node-id="48705" role="article" class="node article teaser clearfix UTF-8"> <header> <h2 class="title text-center"><a href="/content/fortinet-sues-sophos-over-alleged-employee-poaching" rel="bookmark"><span>Fortinet sues Sophos over alleged employee poaching</span> </a></h2> <div class="meta submit clearfix"> <div class="date text-right"> <span class="lowercase">posted on</span>December 18, 2013 </div> <div class="author"> <span class="lowercase">by</span> <span><span>l33tdawg</span></span> </div> </div> </header> <div class="image-default"> <div> <a href="/content/fortinet-sues-sophos-over-alleged-employee-poaching" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/500px-Sophos_Logo.svg__0.png?itok=JMDdZNae" width="220" height="39" alt="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophos" title="Credit: Wikipedia" /> </a> </div> <div class="image-credit"> <strong>Credit:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophos" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophos</a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div><p>Fortinet, one of the biggest computer security vendors, is suing rival Sophos alleging it poached senior staff in breach of an agreement signed when a Fortinet executive jumped ship to Sophos earlier this year.</p> <p>At the center of the case, filed on Monday in federal court in San Jose, California, is the departure of Michael Valentine , a top sales executive at Fortinet. He left the company in February this year for a similar job at Sophos.</p></div> </div> <div class="meta link clearfix"> <div class="comment"> <span class="lowercase">no</span>comment </div> <div class="share text-center show-for-medium"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://news.hitb.org/content/fortinet-sues-sophos-over-alleged-employee-poaching" data-a2a-title="Fortinet sues Sophos over alleged employee poaching"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_email"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> </div> <div class="read-more"><a href="/content/fortinet-sues-sophos-over-alleged-employee-poaching"><span class="lowercase">&#8594;</span>READ MORE</a></div> </div> </article> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:05:04 +0000 l33tdawg 48705 at https://news.hitb.org