What is Sophos?
What is Sophos?
Sophos is a leading global security services, software, and hardware company, driven by a vision to make powerful cybersecurity accessible to practically anyone. This vision fuels innovation in protection, detection, response, and user experience. With adaptive defenses that stay ahead of threats, Sophos integrates seamlessly into existing security and productivity tools, enhancing customers’ technology investments. It offers 24/7 protection with a global, well-staffed security operations center (SOC) that provides cost-effective, round-the-clock managed detection and response (MDR) and incident response (IR) services for organizations large and small.
What are Sophos’ strengths?
As a leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, Sophos provides unrivaled protection at every connection point, mitigating risk, automatically stopping threats, and accelerating threat investigation and response. Backed by a growing team of experts and threat hunters, Sophos’ proactive approach not only responds quickly to cyber incidents but also predicts and defeats them for highly effective protection.
What kinds of cybersecurity products and services does Sophos provide?
The company offers a comprehensive range of products and services that protect organizations from a wide array of cyberthreats, including malware, ransomware, phishing, and data breaches. Its extensive portfolio covers endpoint security, network firewalls, email protection, server protection, cloud security, mobile security, encryption, web security, and managed threat response services. Sophos provides full visibility into an organization’s security landscape through a unified dashboard, which is especially critical for teams managing multiple clouds and assets.
All Sophos solutions are managed through Sophos Central, a centralized platform that enables seamless administration, visibility, and integration with Sophos and third-party applications for comprehensive, robust security across the entire organization.
Why do customers choose Sophos?
Customers choose Sophos for its open, scalable platform and robust, AI-powered threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities. Sophos solutions consistently top leading analyst reports in multiple cybersecurity categories, based on third-party testing and customer rankings. More than 600,000 customers worldwide trust their cybersecurity to Sophos.
For example, Sophos Endpoint has consistently been recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection for 15 consecutive reports, earning a 4.8 out of 5.0 ranking by Gartner Peer Insights reviewers. It is also a leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape vendor assessment for worldwide modern endpoint security for small and midsize businesses and holds top rankings in Next-Gen Endpoint reviews on the G2 Software Marketplace. Additionally, Sophos Endpoint boasts a 100% accuracy rating from SE Labs, earning a AAA award in the company’s past six reports, a distinction none of Sophos’ primary competitors has achieved.
View the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms
How does Sophos approach cybersecurity?
By combining advanced AI-powered products with deep human expertise, Sophos delivers a holistic approach to cyber defense with unparalleled protection. Customers can use Sophos Central, the industry's most comprehensive and scalable AI-powered cloud-native management platform, to deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Sophos’ broad solution suite across endpoints, network firewalls, email, servers, cloud, mobile devices and apps, encryption, web security, and managed threat response services. Security solutions can share real-time threat and intelligence updates, respond automatically, and integrate with third-party applications for complete protection organization-wide.
How do customers purchase Sophos products and solutions?
Organizations can acquire a comprehensive suite of Sophos cybersecurity solutions through Sophos’ global partner ecosystem, which includes resellers, managed service providers (MSPs), and systems integrators. This network ensures that organizations receive tailored security services aligned with their specific needs.
The Sophos MSP program enables providers to deliver Sophos security solutions as managed services to their clients with flexible, scalable, and cost-effective cybersecurity options.
Recognition in the security industry
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What is Sophos X-Ops?
Sophos X-Ops is the core of Sophos’ threat intelligence program. It's a comprehensive cybersecurity initiative that unites more than 500 threat intelligence experts under a joint task force of specialized teams. These teams align with various specialty security domains within Sophos, including SophosLabs, Sophos Security Operations, and Sophos AI, and they are combined with Sophos Incident Response Services. The Sophos X-Ops cross-functional task force bolsters organizational defenses against increasingly sophisticated and dynamic cyberthreats.
Sophos X-Ops’ deep learning and generative AI models, together with X-Ops threat and adversary behavior expertise, power the advanced protection, detection, and response capabilities used across the advanced Sophos portfolio of solutions. As a result, Sophos is able to protect users, networks, and endpoints from a wide range of evolving cyberattacks.
How does Sophos protect organizations?
Sophos combines deep human expertise in cybersecurity with advanced AI-powered products to protect against such cyberthreats as malware, ransomware, phishing, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). Sophos’ advanced solutions block viruses, trojans, spyware, and zero-day vulnerabilities, providing endpoint, network, email, server, and cloud security.
What is Sophos Central?
Sophos Central is the industry's most comprehensive and scalable cloud-native, AI-powered security management platform. It enables businesses to monitor, configure, and manage all their Sophos security products—and third-party integrations—through a single management console with a centralized dashboard. Sophos Central allows solutions to share real-time threat and intelligence updates and respond automatically, making it easy to monitor, control, and scale endpoint, firewall, and email security from one application.
What is Sophos Endpoint protection?
Sophos Endpoint, powered by Intercept X, secures devices such as desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices against malware, ransomware, and unauthorized access. It integrates antivirus, threat detection, and response capabilities to ensure comprehensive security for endpoints across different environments, including on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure.
What is Sophos Firewall?
Sophos Firewall delivers advanced network security, protecting businesses from cyberthreats through intrusion prevention, deep packet inspection, web filtering, and application control. It also includes features like VPN support and zero trust network access (ZTNA) to safeguard network traffic and ensure secure remote access.
To meet each organization’s specific needs, the firewall is available in a variety of form factors: XGS Series desktop, 1U, and 2U hardware appliances; Sophos Firewall OS (SFOS), a software image companies run on their own Intel hardware; virtualization software that supports all the popular hypervisor platforms; and cloud services available in the AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplaces.
What is Sophos MDR?
Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is Sophos’ market-leading cybersecurity as a service (CSaaS) offering. The service combines deep human expertise with advanced technology to hunt for, investigate, and eliminate threats, protecting organizations continuously against attacks. Sophos MDR extends an organization’s internal cyber expertise and capabilities to bolster defenses against ransomware, data breaches, crypto mining, and other threats. It provides 24/7 threat detection, response, and remediation by a team of more than 500 cybersecurity experts. Sophos MDR experts can serve as an organization’s comprehensive cybersecurity team or as a convenient extension to its internal IT staff and cybersecurity systems.
Organizations of all types and sizes rely on Sophos MDR for active threat monitoring, real-time response, and remediation to reduce the burden on their internal security teams.
What is Sophos Email?
Sophos Email safeguards businesses from email-borne threats like phishing, spam, and malware. It uses AI-based threat intelligence and data loss prevention (DLP) to ensure secure communication, protect sensitive information, and block attacks targeting user inboxes.
Case study: N3i Limited implements
Sophos Managed Detection and Response
What is Sophos XDR?
Sophos Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is a powerful tool that correlates security data not only across endpoints, but servers, firewalls, and other areas, as well, allowing analysts to comprehensively detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. Sophos XDR integrates with Sophos Central to provide cross-product visibility, management, and improved threat detection.
What is Sophos EDR?
Sophos Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) provides deep visibility into endpoint activity, enabling security teams to investigate potential threats, respond to incidents, and perform root cause analysis. It enhances proactive threat hunting and rapid response across devices.
What is Sophos ZTNA?
Sophos ZTNA is a zero trust network access tool that enables organizations to securely connect their users to their applications from any location. By default, it does not treat any user or device as a trusted entity. Rather, it requires continuous verification for access to business applications and data. Sophos ZTNA provides granular access control to ensure that users and devices access only the resources they are authorized to use. Sophos ZTNA is the only zero trust network access solution that’s tightly integrated with next-gen endpoint, XDR, and MDR security capabilities.
What is Sophos Trust Center?
Sophos Trust Center provides transparent insights into how Sophos ensures cybersecurity through the open sharing of advisories, certifications, security policies, incident response, and secure product development.
What is Sophos’ approach to incident response?
There are several aspects to Sophos’ incident response strategy. Sophos’ internal Incident Response Program swiftly addresses and manages security incidents to protect customers, products, and Sophos. Using the broad NIST 800-61 definition of security incidents, Sophos identifies threats through monitoring, testing, and analysis, followed by a structured investigation process to assess severity and determine actions.
For customers, Sophos Incident Response Services immediately identify and neutralize active threats, whether they represent an infection, compromise, unauthorized access to assets, or an attempt to circumvent an organization’s security controls. These services are delivered by the Sophos Incident Response team, a group of security experts steeped in expertise at finding and stopping the whole spectrum of cyberthreats. You can read more about the Sophos approach to incident response.
What security tests does Sophos regularly conduct?
Sophos performs tabletop exercises to evaluate and enhance its incident response capabilities. Additionally, Sophos conducts regular penetration testing and security assessments on its products using a white box approach, which provides access to architecture details and source code for more effective testing. The company collects and publishes assessment letters of attestation from these security assessments to ensure transparency and maintain a strong security posture.
What security certifications has Sophos obtained?
Sophos has achieved several external regulatory standard certifications, demonstrating its commitment to maintaining high security standards.
A few of our compliance certifications are listed below; you can view the full range of Sophos certifications.
- SOC 2 Type 2 certification provides third-party assurance of Sophos's adherence to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria for security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy.
- ISO 27001:2022 certification assures customers that Sophos has effectively integrated information security and data privacy into daily operations.
- PCI DSS 4.0 certification of the Sophos MDR CSaaS offering ensures secure storage and transmission of credit card information.
Sophos Defeats Cyberattacks
Sophos has created powerful and intuitive products and services that deliver top-tier cybersecurity for organizations of all sizes. Since 1985, Sophos has stood as a champion in cybersecurity and is committed to the future safety of its more than 600,000 business customers.
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