


“Sophos is proud to announce the release of the Sandboxie source code to the community, meaning we are finally an open source tool! We’re excited to give the code to the community,” the company announced on its forums. The company never considered Sandboxie as an important component of its business and even considered completely discontinuing it. In September last year, Sophos made Sandboxie free, while also announcing that it was transitioning the tool to open source. The sandbox-based isolation program became part of Sophos’ portfolio in 2017, after the cybersecurity solutions provider acquired Invincea. Sandboxie was initially developed by Ronen Tzur, who sold it to Invincea in 2013. Sophos this week announced that the source code of isolation tool Sandboxie is now publicly available.
