The Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service has reached a major milestone, now protecting more than 26 000 organisations globally and growing its customer base by 37% in 2024.

Sophos has made significant investments into its MDR offering with increased analyst capacity, AI assisted workflows, new features and expanded integrations to help deliver the best possible outcomes through improved protection, detection and investigation of threats.

Sophos has added the following new features:

  • Proof of Value
  • Enhanced Security for Microsoft Customers
  • Expanded Compatibility with Third Parties
  • Proactive Vulnerability Mitigation
  • Efficiency and Automation

Sophos has invested significantly in third party integrations for its MDR customers to ingest and analyze events and alerts from an even broader range of tools and products, while also expanding propriety detections based on suspicious behaviour identified in Microsoft environments. This includes:

  • A new Backup and Recovery integration pack with Acronis, Rubrik and Veeam integrations to strengthen defences against ransomware.
  • Microsoft Office 365 Management Activity integrations, enabling the ingestion of audit logs and security alerts across the Microsoft ecosystem.