Sophos Introduces MDR for Microsoft Defender
Sophos MDR for Microsoft Defender adds human-led threat intelligence across the Microsoft Security suite of endpoint, SIEM, identity, and cloud solutions.
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Sophos Upgrades Endpoint Security Solutions
New capabilities in the vendor’s Intercept X and ZTNA offerings include real-time protection from active adversaries, additional support for Linux and macOS, new gateways for cloud apps, and automated security health checks.
Sophos Ships High-Speed, High-Capacity Firewalls
Though meant for enterprise and campus environments, the new XGS 7500 and XGS 8500 are also suitable, the vendor says, for increasingly complex SMB networks that support a diverse range of remote workers, SaaS solutions, and IoT systems.
Sophos Integrates MDR Service with Third-Party Security Solutions
The new functionality lets Sophos analysts, partners, and customers exchange data and instructions with endpoint, firewall, email, and other security systems from members of the vendor’s Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem in addition to its own products.
Sophos Says Attackers are Ganging Up on Victims
A new whitepaper from the security vendor’s recently formed X-Ops team documents how ransomware gangs, cryptominers, bots, and others are compromising the same networks within weeks or days of one another—and sometimes simultaneously.
Sophos Buys Multi-Vendor Security Alert Vendor SOC.OS
The deal aims to help the vendor’s Managed Threat Response and extended detection and response offerings collect data from a broader range of sources and act on it more effectively. It was announced a day after updates to the Sophos Firewall rolled out.
Sophos Enters Zero-Trust Network Access Market
Sophos ZTNA, which works in combination with the vendor’s Intercept X product to provide endpoint protection and network access control through a single agent, is the second significant addition to the Sophos secure access portfolio this month.
Sophos Adds Switches to Network Appliance Portfolio
The new Sophos Switch Series is designed for use with the vendor’s previously introduced firewalls, access points, and SD-WAN appliances in remote work sites, branch offices, and retail outlets.
Sophos and Trend Micro Agree: Cloud Security is Now a Mandatory Channel Skill
Speaking with ChannelPro during the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week, both vendors said that while IT providers are gradually learning to protect cloud workloads, there’s further progress to be made.