Sophos X-Ops
Sophos X-Ops represents a significant advancement in cybersecurity. It is a joint task force of multiple specialized teams working together to address the complexities of modern cyberthreats.

Sophos X-Ops
Sophos X-Ops represents a significant advancement in cybersecurity. It is a joint task force of multiple specialized teams working together to address the complexities of modern cyberthreats.

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Sophos X-Ops team
Sophos X-Ops is a leading-edge cybersecurity initiative that unites more than 500 experts from various specialized security domains within Sophos, including SophosLabs, Sophos Artificial Intelligence (Sophos AI), Sophos MDR operations, Sophos Incident Response, the Field CTO team, X-Ops threat intelligence, and the Sophos internal security operations (SecOps) team.
This cross-functional task force bolsters organizational defenses against increasingly sophisticated and dynamic cyberthreats.
By leveraging the combined expertise of its members, Sophos X-Ops offers a multidimensional response to cyberattacks, ensuring comprehensive protection, detection, and response capabilities.
This collaborative and innovative approach ensures comprehensive threat mitigation and response, making Sophos a leader in the cybersecurity landscape.
- This group works closely with the X-Ops to teams develop original, high quality threat research, intelligence and findings for sharing with the broader security community. The team does this through ongoing collaboration, research and analysis across the teams and delivering these findings through the X-Ops blog and social channels.
Stop unknown threats dead
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SophosLabs
This group is focused on providing proactive protection and detection solutions for the entire Sophos product portfolio based on a deep understanding of the ever-evolving threat landscape. These solutions are available both in-product and in the cloud (SophosLabs Intelix). SophosLabs has been at the core of Sophos products for over 25 years.

MDR
MDR operations are the SOC that provides 24/7 threat detection and response within our customers' environments. Leveraging our customer's Sophos and non-Sophos cybersecurity software, MDR operations provide expert-led threat-hunting and incident response capabilities to detect and neutralize threats in customer environments.

Incident Response
This group works in customer environments to immediately identify and neutralize active threats, such as infections, compromises, unauthorized access to assets, or attempts to circumvent security controls. Additionally, the team specializes in forensic investigations and addressing complex incidents like business email compromise. Incident Response is typically called upon during an active attack or when the customer cannot self-remediate.

SophosAI
Pushing the boundaries of machine learning for information security. SophosAI was formed in 2017 to produce breakthrough data science and machine learning technologies for information security. Leveraging machine learning, large-scale scientific computing architecture, human-AI interaction, and information visualization to provide enhanced cybersecurity outcomes focusing on zero-day threats.

X-Ops Comms, Analysis Research
This group provides an outlet to the industry for the research and analysis performed within the X-Ops groups. X-Ops Comms builds content that is disseminated through blog posts, industry presentations, and other channels to highlight Sophos's high CQ.

Field CTO
The Sophos Field CTO group is crucial in promoting the company's technology vision and establishing its reputation in the enterprise space. The team's mission is to provide executive-level support in various areas of specialization, including regional, vertical, technological, and generalist. They aim to foster collaboration and drive innovation within and beyond the company to achieve Sophos' strategic objectives.

CISO
Sophos' mission is to protect customers from cyber-attacks. The CISO teams contribute to this mission by defending Sophos itself.
Sophos X-Ops expertise and capabilities
Sophos X-Ops combines deep malware analysis, real-time threat intelligence, frontline incident response, and advanced AI capabilities to create a formidable defense mechanism. It stands out due to its global reach and collaborative approach, integrating expertise from seven specialized areas:
- SophosLabs: Threat researchers specializing in deep analysis of threats and attack techniques and responsible for proactive protection, detection, and response.
- SophosLabs Intelix: SophosLabs Intelix provides threat classification and deep analysis for known clean and malicious objects, including files, web pages, and IP addresses.
See Intelix in action. - Sophos AI: The application of deep learning to enhance threat detection and response.
- Sophos managed threat response team: Specialists who provide real-time threat hunting and neutralization.
- Sophos incident response team: Professionals who offer rapid mitigation response services when evidence of a security event or threat is discovered.
- Field CTO: An individual who develops Sophos’ technology vision and shares it with external partners to enhance their view of the threat landscape.
- X-Ops communications, analysis, and research team: Experts who specialize in gathering and analyzing threat intelligence and sharing their research with customers and partners worldwide.
- Sophos’ SecOps team: Experts who continually run internal defenses and share operational insights.
- Sophos OEM: The Sophos OEM team provides solutions and threat intelligence to be embedded into your product offerings.
The synergy among all the X-Ops teams allows Sophos to harness telemetry from more than 600,000 customers worldwide for unparalleled threat hunting, response, and remediation. Sophos's products and serices are powered by the insights and intelligence derived from Sophos X-Ops.

Sophos X-Ops teams in-depth
SophosLabs
This group is focused on providing proactive protection and detection solutions for the entire Sophos product portfolio based on a deep understanding of the ever-evolving threat landscape. These solutions are available both in-product and in the cloud (SophosLabs Intelix). SophosLabs has been at the core of Sophos products for over 25 years.
MDR
Sophos MDR focuses on the customer and their environment, protecting them against advanced human-led attacks. As a flexible service with various tiers and response modes, Sophos MDR can execute full-scale incident response or collaborate with the customer to manage security incidents with detailed threat notifications and guidance. The team provides proactive recommendations to improve security posture and performs root cause analysis to identify the underlying issues that led to an incident. In addition, they provide prescriptive guidance to address security weaknesses so attackers cannot exploit them in the future. Visibility across a customer's ecosystem is vital in detecting and responding to threats. Sophos offers seamless integration with a broad, open ecosystem of technology partners, including endpoint, firewall, network, identity, email, backup and recovery, and other technologies.
Incident Response
Sophos Incident Response Services respond to cyberattacks in progress or investigate a suspected breach. Available to organisations large or small. The Incident Response team has seen and stopped it all, from ransomware and advanced persistent threats to insider threats and business email compromise, leveraging its expertise in forensic analysis and threat actor methodologies.
When responding to an active threat, the time interval between the initial indicator of compromise and full threat mitigation must be as brief as possible. Forensic investigations ensure a detailed understanding of how the attack unfolded, helping organizations address root causes and prevent recurrence. Onboarding starts within hours, and most customers are triaged within 48 hours.
Sophos is accredited by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as a Level 2 Certified Incident Response (CIR) service provider and is qualified by the German Federal Office for Information Security as an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response service provider.
SophosAI
Since 2017, Sophos has been elevating cybersecurity with AI. Deep learning and genAI capabilities are embedded in Sophos products and delivered through the industry's largest, most scalable, open AI platform. SophosLabs and SophosAI are mutually beneficial. SophosLabs has a massive and ever-expanding database of categorized malicious code, executables, URLs, etc., from Sophos products, services, and customer submissions worldwide. Combine that unique training data with the AI skillset of the SophosAI team, and you can see why the 50+ models used by Sophos' products and services provide robust and battle-proven protection.
X-Ops Comms, Analysis Research
The X-Ops Comms team are skilled in taking the data and the research created by the Sophos X-Ops organizations and creating consumable content for people at all levels of understanding. From the in-depth technical discussion of how an attack unfolded to industry presentations and blog articles for the general public to thought leadership pieces explaining the themes and key messages from the data targeted at educating C-Level staff and Board Members.
Field CTO
The team's mission is to provide executive-level support in various areas of specialization, including regional, vertical, technological, and generalist. They aim to foster collaboration and drive innovation both within and beyond Sophos. The Field CTO team offers comprehensive support through public speaking, internal engagement, customer-executive collaboration, and in an advisory capacity. They also evangelize and adapt the Sophos technology vision across all specializations and beyond, strengthening Sophos' market position and reputation.
CISO
Sophos' mission is to protect customers from cyber attacks, the CISO teams contributes to this mission by defending Sophos itself.
Attackers have long-tried to bypass security products. More recently security vendors and their products are directly targeted and used as entry points into organisations. The CISO teams mission is to prevent, detect and respond to these attacks. This mission requires us to defend our own infrastructure and services as well as products running directly in customer environments. This starts with threat-modelling and adherence to secure design principles, through assurance activities including code review, penetration testing, red teaming and bug bounties and, finally, product and infrastructure telemetry monitoring and instrumentation for effective detection and response. At Sophos, we recognize that customer trust must be earned and verifiable. That's why we have made transparency a longstanding cornerstone of our security program - ensuring customers can verify our commitment to security through open disclosure of threats, vulnerabilities, and details of our internal security practices on our trust center.

SophosLabs
This group is focused on providing proactive protection and detection solutions for the entire Sophos product portfolio based on a deep understanding of the ever-evolving threat landscape. These solutions are available both in-product and in the cloud (SophosLabs Intelix). SophosLabs has been at the core of Sophos products for over 25 years.

Sophos MDR focuses on the customer and their environment, protecting them against advanced human-led attacks. As a flexible service with various tiers and response modes, Sophos MDR can execute full-scale incident response or collaborate with the customer to manage security incidents with detailed threat notifications and guidance. The team provides proactive recommendations to improve security posture and performs root cause analysis to identify the underlying issues that led to an incident. In addition, they provide prescriptive guidance to address security weaknesses so attackers cannot exploit them in the future. Visibility across a customer's ecosystem is vital in detecting and responding to threats. Sophos offers seamless integration with a broad, open ecosystem of technology partners, including endpoint, firewall, network, identity, email, backup and recovery, and other technologies.

Sophos Incident Response Services respond to cyberattacks in progress or investigate a suspected breach. Available to organisations large or small. The Incident Response team has seen and stopped it all, from ransomware and advanced persistent threats to insider threats and business email compromise, leveraging its expertise in forensic analysis and threat actor methodologies.
When responding to an active threat, the time interval between the initial indicator of compromise and full threat mitigation must be as brief as possible. Forensic investigations ensure a detailed understanding of how the attack unfolded, helping organizations address root causes and prevent recurrence. Onboarding starts within hours, and most customers are triaged within 48 hours.
Sophos is accredited by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as a Level 2 Certified Incident Response (CIR) service provider and is qualified by the German Federal Office for Information Security as an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response service provider.

SophosLabs
This group is focused on providing proactive protection and detection solutions for the entire Sophos product portfolio based on a deep understanding of the ever-evolving threat landscape. These solutions are available both in-product and in the cloud (SophosLabs Intelix). SophosLabs has been at the core of Sophos products for over 25 years.

MDR
Sophos MDR focuses on the customer and their environment, protecting them against advanced human-led attacks. As a flexible service with various tiers and response modes, Sophos MDR can execute full-scale incident response or collaborate with the customer to manage security incidents with detailed threat notifications and guidance. The team provides proactive recommendations to improve security posture and performs root cause analysis to identify the underlying issues that led to an incident. In addition, they provide prescriptive guidance to address security weaknesses so attackers cannot exploit them in the future. Visibility across a customer's ecosystem is vital in detecting and responding to threats. Sophos offers seamless integration with a broad, open ecosystem of technology partners, including endpoint, firewall, network, identity, email, backup and recovery, and other technologies.

Incident Response
Sophos Incident Response Services respond to cyberattacks in progress or investigate a suspected breach. Available to organisations large or small. The Incident Response team has seen and stopped it all, from ransomware and advanced persistent threats to insider threats and business email compromise, leveraging its expertise in forensic analysis and threat actor methodologies.
When responding to an active threat, the time interval between the initial indicator of compromise and full threat mitigation must be as brief as possible. Forensic investigations ensure a detailed understanding of how the attack unfolded, helping organizations address root causes and prevent recurrence. Onboarding starts within hours, and most customers are triaged within 48 hours.
Sophos is accredited by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as a Level 2 Certified Incident Response (CIR) service provider and is qualified by the German Federal Office for Information Security as an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response service provider.

SophosAI
Since 2017, Sophos has been elevating cybersecurity with AI. Deep learning and genAI capabilities are embedded in Sophos products and delivered through the industry's largest, most scalable, open AI platform. SophosLabs and SophosAI are mutually beneficial. SophosLabs has a massive and ever-expanding database of categorized malicious code, executables, URLs, etc., from Sophos products, services, and customer submissions worldwide. Combine that unique training data with the AI skillset of the SophosAI team, and you can see why the 50+ models used by Sophos' products and services provide robust and battle-proven protection.

X-Ops Comms, Analysis Research
The X-Ops Comms team are skilled in taking the data and the research created by the Sophos X-Ops organizations and creating consumable content for people at all levels of understanding. From the in-depth technical discussion of how an attack unfolded to industry presentations and blog articles for the general public to thought leadership pieces explaining the themes and key messages from the data targeted at educating C-Level staff and Board Members.

Field CTO
The team's mission is to provide executive-level support in various areas of specialization, including regional, vertical, technological, and generalist. They aim to foster collaboration and drive innovation both within and beyond Sophos. The Field CTO team offers comprehensive support through public speaking, internal engagement, customer-executive collaboration, and in an advisory capacity. They also evangelize and adapt the Sophos technology vision across all specializations and beyond, strengthening Sophos' market position and reputation.

CISO
Sophos' mission is to protect customers from cyber attacks, the CISO teams contributes to this mission by defending Sophos itself.
Attackers have long-tried to bypass security products. More recently security vendors and their products are directly targeted and used as entry points into organisations. The CISO teams mission is to prevent, detect and respond to these attacks. This mission requires us to defend our own infrastructure and services as well as products running directly in customer environments. This starts with threat-modelling and adherence to secure design principles, through assurance activities including code review, penetration testing, red teaming and bug bounties and, finally, product and infrastructure telemetry monitoring and instrumentation for effective detection and response. At Sophos, we recognize that customer trust must be earned and verifiable. That's why we have made transparency a longstanding cornerstone of our security program - ensuring customers can verify our commitment to security through open disclosure of threats, vulnerabilities, and details of our internal security practices on our trust center.
Innovation in cybersecurity
Comprehensive threat understanding
Sophos X-Ops provides detailed insights into how threats are constructed, delivered, and operated in real-time, allowing for a complete understanding of the attack landscape. This knowledge empowers Sophos to develop robust and effective defenses against advanced threats.
Commitment to transparency
Sophos X-Ops is dedicated to transparency and the open sharing of threat intelligence. The team regularly publishes threat research on its blog and participates in industry events and conferences to disseminate valuable information. This commitment helps businesses, governments, and individuals enhance their cybersecurity defenses. The team also collaborates with the industry through membership in organizations such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), and the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA).
Disruption and collaboration
Sophos X-Ops disrupts cyberattackers by targeting their operations, infrastructure, and financial resources. This multidisciplinary approach involves collaborating with partners and law enforcement to neutralize threats effectively. The formal establishment of Sophos X-Ops enhances the speed and efficiency of these collaborative efforts, ensuring a swift response to fast-evolving cyberthreats.
Innovation and future vision
Sophos X-Ops fosters a strong foundation for innovation, which is essential for combating the rapid advancements in cybercrime. The integration of AI within the Sophos security operations center (SOC) enables the use of technology to anticipate security analysts' needs and provide proactive defensive measures. The AI-assisted SOC model is expected to accelerate security workflows and improve the detection and response to novel and critical threats.
Technology and threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops are core to the protection functionality in every Sophos Product. Learn more about Sophos's product offerings.
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Sophos X-Ops brings together deep expertise across the attack environment to defend against even the most advanced threats.

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