{"id":71786,"date":"2025-10-10T07:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=71786"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:48:20","slug":"sophos-introduces-advisory-services-for-organizations-to-plug-security-gaps-enhance-proactive-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2025\/10\/10\/sophos-introduces-advisory-services-for-organizations-to-plug-security-gaps-enhance-proactive-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos introduces Advisory Services for organizations to plug security gaps, enhance proactive cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\">Sophos<\/a> launched the Sophos Advisory Services, a suite of security testing services designed to identify gaps in organizations\u2019 security programs. These offerings \u2013 External Penetration Testing, Internal Penetration Testing, Wireless Network Penetration Testing, and Web Application Security Assessment \u2013 help fortify an organization\u2019s defenses against cyberattacks and optimize their current security investments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of an organization\u2019s size or security maturity, assessing cybersecurity posture is critical to staying ahead of threat actors, demonstrating regulatory compliance, and building trust with customers, partners, and stakeholders. The Sophos State of Ransomware 2025 report highlights that the number one root cause for ransomware attacks is exploited vulnerabilities, and 65% of organizations globally reported a known or unknown security gap as a reason for being exposed to a ransomware attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdversaries are increasingly skilled at exploiting the smallest cracks in an organization\u2019s security program. With Sophos Advisory Services, we give customers a proactive advantage \u2013 helping them find and fix weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Backed by real-time insights from Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence, our experts enable organizations to strengthen resilience, meet compliance requirements, and build lasting trust with stakeholders,\u201d Jake Dorval, senior director, Sophos Advisory Services.<\/p>\n<p>The following services \u2013 informed with leading threat intelligence research and insights from Sophos X-Ops, along with findings from threat hunting and incident response engagements \u2013 are now available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>External Penetration Testing:\u00a0Simulates an attacker trying to breach your perimeter from the outside.<\/li>\n<li>Internal Penetration Testing:\u00a0Simulates an insider threat or an attacker who has already breached the perimeter, focusing on systems, applications, and data within the internal network.<\/li>\n<li>Wireless Network Penetration Testing:\u00a0Assesses the security of an organization&#8217;s Wi-Fi networks and infrastructure and evaluates their compliance with appropriate mandates.<\/li>\n<li>Web Application Security Assessment:\u00a0Tests an organization\u2019s web applications for security vulnerabilities and design weaknesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sophos Advisory Services are delivered by dedicated testers with vast cross-discipline security expertise spanning security research, threat intelligence, law enforcement, military and other backgrounds who joined Sophos through the recent acquisition of Secureworks. The team holds hundreds of security certifications, has earned top finishes in capture the flag competitions, and is supported by Sophos X-Ops security analysts, threat intelligence and research specialists. Sophos will release additional Advisory Services in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Sophos Advisory Services are the latest addition to Sophos\u2019 fast-growing security services portfolio that also includes Sophos Emergency Incident Response. Converging incident response expertise from Sophos and Secureworks in a single, hourly-billing offering, Sophos Emergency Incident Response provides rapid identification and neutralization of active threats and is available to any organization experiencing a live incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These offerings \u2013 External Penetration Testing, Internal Penetration Testing, Wireless Network Penetration Testing, and Web Application Security Assessment \u2013 help fortify an organization\u2019s defenses against cyberattacks and optimize their current security investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":71787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1481,54,206,96],"class_list":["post-71786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cybersecurity","tag-security","tag-sophos","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71786","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=71786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71788,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71786\/revisions\/71788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}