We’re excited to announce the latest addition to the Sophos portfolio: Sophos Workspace Protection. It’s an easy, effective, and affordable way to protect remote and hybrid workers, contractors and guests – and the networks and data they access – from threats, breaches, and shadow IT, and provide consistent policy enforcement on and off the network. It’s also a great new way for you to grow your business while extending your customers’ defenses.

 

The challenge – why Sophos Workspace Protection?

The traditional network perimeter has been disappearing in recent years, with applications, data, and users everywhere. This shift has made protecting remote and hybrid workers a significant challenge for IT teams.

In response, cloud-delivered network security solutions like Secure Web Gateways (SWG), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), and cloud firewalls – often collectively known as SASE or SSE solutions – have emerged to try to solve this issue. However, these solutions come with their own set of challenges related to back-hauling and encrypted traffic, latency, and cost effectiveness that have made them unworkable options for many smaller and mid-sized organizations.

At the same time, many organizations are grappling with both shadow IT and the need to safely adopt and integrate generative AI technology and services into their workflows without exposing proprietary information or sensitive data. There’s been no easy way to solve these issues, particularly with a remote or hybrid workforce.

Most organizations have been waiting for a better way.

 

A better solution: Sophos Workspace Protection

Sophos Workspace Protection provides a unique and elegant solution to the challenge of protecting remote and hybrid workers. It integrates all the network security components needed to secure apps, data, workers, and guests – wherever they are – into a single easy-to-use and familiar app: a hardened Chromium browser.

Sophos Workspace Protection includes:

• Sophos Protected Browser is a new, secure Chromium web browser powered by Island.io that provides several security features, including control over app usage, local data controls, and web filtering, that is hardened against exploits and attacks. It also integrates Sophos ZTNA for access to web apps and rich SSH and RDP support.
• Sophos ZTNA is now integrated into Sophos Protected Browser and can still be used agentless or with a thin agent as before. It also works with Sophos Endpoint to provide device posture assessment and Synchronized Security Heartbeat for defining device health as part of access policies. Existing Sophos ZTNA customers will automatically get access to the full Sophos Workspace Protection bundle and all the added benefits it provides.
• Sophos DNS Protection for Endpoints provides an additional layer of web protection across all apps, ports, and protocols on your remote Windows devices, with added visibility and security, and privacy with DNS over HTTPS.
• Email Monitoring System – a Sophos email solution that deploys alongside Google or Microsoft email solutions to monitor email traffic and provide additional insights, analysis, and detections of unwanted or malicious email, including phishing attacks.

 

Much easier and more affordable than alternatives

Sophos Workspace Protection provides significant advantages for customers over alternative SASE or SSE cloud-delivered solutions, including:

• Affordability: With no expensive cloud infrastructure or traffic management, Sophos Workspace Protection enables you to deliver more for your customers’ security budget.
• Efficiency and performance: There’s no backhauling traffic or man-in-the-middle decryption in the cloud to slow users down.
• Management overhead: Having a single app to protect all other online apps – private apps, SaaS apps, web apps – reduces day-to-day IT efforts. Plus, it’s simple to add and remove users – including contractors or workers using unmanaged devices.
• Security: Sophos Workspace Protection transforms the browser from a security liability into a key security asset.
• Universality: It works everywhere – on or off the network.

Sophos Workspace Protection is the ultimate solution for remote or hybrid workers – nothing is easier or more affordable.

 

What does Sophos Workspace Protection mean for you?

• New Revenue: Sophos Workspace Protection provides a new, easy, and affordable solution for protecting remote and hybrid workers that provides you with an excellent new revenue opportunity.
• High Value Cross-Sell: Sophos Workspace Protection is ideal for existing Sophos Firewall or Endpoint customers, as it bridges an important protection gap for remote or hybrid workers at a very aggressive price. It’s managed from Sophos Central and supports and extends Synchronized Security Heartbeat to roaming endpoints to ensure compromised remote devices can’t connect to important business apps and data and cause a breach.
• New Business Opportunities and Use Cases: Sophos Workspace Protection covers some important new use cases such as easy and safe adoption of generative AI, local data protection to guard against costly mistakes, and consistent enforcement of policies in and out the office. These are use cases you may have struggled to address before now.
• Competitive Advantage: Sophos Workspace Protection is also much affordable than alternatives, making it a great competitive offering for you to win added market share from competitors.

 

When is it available and how to get started:

Sophos Workspace Protection is being announced globally today and will be available in late February. Please join us in making as much noise as possible about the many benefits of this great new cybersecurity solution with your customers, prospects, and peers.

Here are additional tools for you:

• Sophos Workspace Protection product page on the Partner Portal
• Sophos Workspace Protection webpages
• Sophos Workspace Protection FAQ
• Take the interactive on-demand training
• Sign up for the Partner Academy Session in your region being held January 28^th in the Americas, EMEA, and APJ
• Join the Early Access Programs for Sophos Workspace Protection

 

Licensing and purchase options:

Sophos Workspace Protection bundles four excellent products into a single, high-value bundle that is licensed on a simple per-user basis.

• Sophos Protected Browser
• Sophos ZTNA
• Sophos DNS Protection for Endpoints
• Sophos Email Monitoring System

The components are modular, allowing you to deploy just what your customers need.

Sophos Workspace Protection is available on term subscriptions or via monthly MSP Flex, making it an ideal choice for any size of organization. An easy-to-order bundle with Sophos Endpoint and Sophos Workspace Protection will also be available.

Existing Sophos ZTNA customers will be automatically upgraded to Sophos Workspace Protection from GA. For MSP customers, usage will be shown and billed as ZTNA until late April 2026. Further information on the transition will be provided in the coming weeks.

 

Sophos customers get even more value

Sophos Workspace Protection is the ideal complement to Sophos Endpoint, Sophos MDR, and Sophos Firewall – extending and unifying these great products and services to remote and hybrid workers everywhere they go. It also extends Synchronized Security Heartbeat to application access policies for users everywhere. To learn more about Synchronized Security, check out this article.

 

Partnering with Island.io on Sophos Protected Browser

Sophos has partnered with an industry-leading Enterprise Browser vendor, Island.io, to deliver the Sophos Protected Browser in Sophos Workspace Protection. Island has been developing its Enterprise Browser product since 2020 and is widely recognized for its expertise in this space.

With the Sophos Protected Browser, Island provides the core Chromium browser technology and policy enforcement engine in the browser, while Sophos provides the Sophos Central management, logging, and reporting experience, as well as our industry-leading threat intelligence for web and content inspection.

We hope you are as excited as we are with the tremendous new business and cross-sell opportunities Sophos Workspace Protection presents, and we look forward to driving this to market together with you. Thank you for your continued and ongoing support!