{"id":54664,"date":"2023-03-21T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=54664"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:03:12","slug":"sophos-endpoint-security-advancements-improve-cyberthreat-defenses-and-streamline-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/03\/21\/sophos-endpoint-security-advancements-improve-cyberthreat-defenses-and-streamline-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos endpoint security advancements improve cyberthreat defenses and streamline management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/\">Sophos<\/a>, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, recently introduced innovative advancements to its portfolio of industry-leading endpoint security offerings. New adaptive active adversary protection; Linux malware protection enhancements; account health check capabilities; an integrated zero trust network access (ZTNA) agent for Windows and macOS devices; and more improve frontline defenses against advanced cyberthreats and streamline endpoint security management.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRansomware remains one of the most prevalent and damaging cyberthreats to organizations, with Sophos incident responders still consistently remediating ransomware activity worldwide. Now isn\u2019t the time for organizations to let their guard down because of any perceived reduction in attacks; in fact, they should be strengthening defenses as attacks are now more intricate and difficult to detect, requiring advanced security techniques that can sense and then quickly adapt to better protect themselves,\u201d said Raja Patel, senior vice president of products at Sophos. \u201cSophos endpoint security is widely recognized as the industry gold standard, and we\u2019re consistently innovating our market-leading, intelligent endpoint technologies to keep organizations ahead of unrelenting attackers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed to improve protection and operational efficiency, as well as speed up detection and response, the new Sophos endpoint innovations include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Adaptive active adversary protection<\/strong>: A core part of Sophos\u2019 \u201cshields up\u201d design methodology that provides defenders with additional time needed to respond to targeted attacks underway. Sophos Intercept X immediately enables heightened defenses as soon as it detects a \u201chands-on-keyboard\u201d endpoint intrusion. This wide-reaching step up in defensive measures removes an attacker\u2019s ability to take further actions by minimizing the attack surface, disrupting and containing the attack <em>prior to<\/em> response team engagement, and providing insights needed for complete remediation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Linux malware protection enhancements<\/strong>: On-access malware scanning and quarantine capabilities improve real-time prevention of security incidents within Linux operating environments. Added to the Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server offering, these new features complement existing functionality, including live runtime detections and response to container escapes, cryptominers, data destruction, and kernel exploits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Account health check<\/strong>: Intuitive, real-time health check monitoring of security configurations and policy settings with the ability to automatically return to recommended settings in a single click, optimizing security posture and enabling organizations to promptly re-establish security best practices. Assessments ensure devices are running the necessary security components, policies are following recommended settings, tamper protection is active, exclusions aren\u2019t creating attack surface exposure, and more<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Integrated ZTNA agent for Windows and macOS devices<\/strong>: Sophos Intercept X is one of the only endpoint protection solutions with a modular ZTNA agent, and organizations can now extend defenses to include Sophos ZTNA across entire estates without deploying an additional agent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Faster, lightweight agent<\/strong>: Reduces the Windows agent\u2019s memory footprint by 40% and the number of processes by more than 30%, accelerating the performance of applications, workloads and devices. Sophos has also introduced a new extended detection and response (XDR) sensor deployment option that\u2019s approximately 80% lighter than the previous full agent<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sophos endpoint solutions provide deep learning malware detection, anti-ransomware technology, exploit prevention, and much more to prevent attackers from gaining a foothold in the first place. Sophos Intercept X, the market-leading endpoint security solution, protects more than 300,000 organizations against both known and unknown malware and exploits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sophos XDR gives security analysts the ability to proactively hunt threats, providing faster detection, investigation and response to drive better security outcomes. Sophos endpoint offerings also include server workload protection for unmatched server and container security and integrated web and application controls; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/mobile-control\">Sophos Mobile<\/a> for secure unified endpoint management; and Sophos Encryption for full disk encryption. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sophos\u2019 complete and integrated portfolio of endpoint, network and cloud solutions and managed security services are part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem. They\u2019re powered by threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops for faster and more contextual and synchronized protection, detection and response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Availability<\/strong><br>Sophos endpoint security offerings are available for immediate purchase exclusively through Sophos\u2019\u00a0global channel of\u00a0partners\u00a0and\u00a0managed service providers\u00a0(MSPs). New software management options enable organizations to precisely control which versions of Sophos endpoint software are deployed on specific devices with new fixed term support packages for Windows computers and servers, with macOS and Linux coverage coming later this year. Solutions are easily managed in the cloud-native\u00a0Sophos Central\u00a0platform. Partners can also leverage\u00a0Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) as a comprehensive service to detect and respond to threats. The industry-leading service offering is trusted by more than\u00a015,000 organizations\u00a0for 24\/7 threat hunting, detection and response with industry-first\u00a0third-party integration capabilities\u00a0and a $1 million\u00a0Sophos Breach Protection Warranty.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New adaptive active adversary protection; Linux malware protection enhancements; account health check capabilities; an integrated zero trust network access (ZTNA) agent for Windows and macOS devices; and more improve frontline defenses against advanced cyberthreats and streamline endpoint security management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[286,54,2103,206,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-54664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-it-security","tag-security","tag-security-breach","tag-sophos","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}