Sophos's wide range of products and services keep its customers ahead of adversaries

Sunil Sharma, Managing Director – Sales, Sophos India and SAARC

Measures to be taken for Cyber threats  

The Sophos 2021 Threat Report flags how ransomware and attacker behaviours, from advanced to entry level, will shape the threat landscape and IT security in 2021. To defend against these attack trends, organizations need to have three main pillars in their cybersecurity:

1)    Next-gen security solutions that provide layered security to prevent threats and unwanted software from infecting their devices and networks
2)    A managed service that continuously monitors environments for organizations that don't have a security team
3)    Cybersecurity awareness within organizations (i.e., phishing awareness training)

Solutions for sophisticated attacks

Sophos has a broad portfolio of products and services to protect our customers from all kinds of cyberattacks ranging from mass attacks to the targeted ones. We have expanded synchronized security, where security solutions share threat intelligence and act as a system, to our whole portfolio. We have taken it to the next level with Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem (ACE). ACE is an ecosystem of Sophos and non-Sophos products that feeds information into a data lake. This entire ecosystem helps us to detect suspicious behaviours and incidents faster and respond automatically with the help of AI. 

We have a next generation endpoint protection product called Sophos Intercept X and an Endpoint Detection and Response product called Sophos Intercept X with EDR, used by advanced threat hunters to do security operations. We also offer Managed Threat and Response (MTR), which is our threat hunting service for organizations that don’t have threat hunting capabilities. Under this service, our security practitioners will monitor customer environment 24/7 and take actions to neutralize threats.

We have an emergency incident response service called Rapid Response, aimed at customers hit with an attack to help them get through the incident and minimize damage. We have just released a new next-gen firewall dubbed XGS to inspect encrypted traffic on the network security side. Cybercriminals are using TLS encryption to hide their malware, and we have precise capabilities to inspect this traffic at wire speed, which is something most firewalls can’t do. 

There are a range of exciting products and services at Sophos to keep our customers ahead of adversaries.