Sophos

What is Sophos?

Sophos is a cybersecurity vendor that protects organizations against ransomware, malware, phishing, and other threats across endpoints, networks, email, and the cloud. Its products are organized around Sophos Fusion, which the vendor presents as a unified cyber defense platform with an AI layer called Fusion AI. The vendor cites 600,000+ customers.

Key features of Sophos

• Sophos Endpoint: next-generation antivirus, exploit mitigation, and ransomware rollback for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Sophos EDR and XDR: detection and response that extends across more attack vectors; EDR is included in XDR.
• Sophos MDR: 24/7 managed detection and response that can work alongside existing security tools.
• Network security: next-generation firewall, NDR, switches, and wireless access points.
• Email and workspace security: phishing protection, ZTNA, DNS protection, and Phish Threat awareness training.
• Identity and cloud: ITDR and cloud workload protection.
• Next-Gen SIEM: security operations tooling alongside XDR.
• Services: incident response, managed risk, and security testing.

How Sophos works

Sophos products share threat and health telemetry through Sophos Fusion, so an endpoint detection can trigger coordinated action across the firewall and other Sophos products. Customers manage products from a central console and can add MDR so Sophos analysts monitor and respond around the clock. MDR can ingest telemetry from third-party security tools.

Who uses Sophos?

Sophos serves organizations in education, finance and banking, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail, and sells through partners, resellers, and managed service providers. It suits IT teams that want endpoint, network, and email protection from one vendor, or small teams that want to hand monitoring to an MDR service.

Sophos pricing

Sophos does not publish prices on its product pages; buyers use a how-to-buy page or partners, and listings exist on AWS Marketplace. The vendor offers a free 30-day trial of Sophos Endpoint.

Sophos integrations

Sophos says Sophos Fusion integrates with 500+ third-party technologies through an integrations marketplace. Sophos Endpoint manages BitLocker and FileVault encryption policies, and Sophos offers backup and recovery for Microsoft 365.

Sophos alternatives

Cloudflare is a network, web, and application security platform rather than an endpoint vendor. CrowdStrike is a cloud-native endpoint and XDR vendor and the closest competitor to Sophos Endpoint and MDR. Wiz focuses on cloud security posture across cloud accounts. SonarQube analyzes code quality and security in development pipelines.