We’re excited to share the latest product enhancements designed to strengthen your security offerings.
We’re also thrilled about the recent acquisition of Secureworks and the exciting possibilities it brings for growing your business. For deeper insights, revisit our recent update on how you can increase your customer opportunities.
While we look ahead, we remain focused on what matters most — staying ahead of evolving cyber threats. Our X-Ops, Engineering, and Product teams are continuously advancing our defense capabilities to keep your customers protected.
Explore the latest releases below and discover how these innovations can support your growth.
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- What’s New: Latest product, service and platform enhancements
- Thought Leadership: Latest insights from Sophos threat experts
- Recognition: Accolades from G2, SE Labs and AV-Test
WHAT’S NEW
Sophos XDR: Introducing the new Sophos AI Assistant
We’re excited to introduce a powerful new AI Assistant in Sophos XDR—built by the experts behind the world’s leading Managed Detection and Response service. More than just another AI tool, it helps security professionals at all levels— from IT generalists to Tier 3 SOC analysts—navigate case investigations with speed and precision, maximizing efficiency to detect and neutralize threats fast.
Sophos Switch: Turbocharge networks with the new 10 gigabit switch
With the rapid rise of cloud computing, video streaming, AI, and other data-intensive technologies, traditional gigabit ethernet (GE) networks are struggling to keep up. To meet these growing demands, we’re excited to introduce the latest addition to the Sophos Switch portfolio: the CS1010-8FP. Designed for high-speed, low-latency performance, it offers a cost-effective solution to support modern networks and applications. Learn more.
New integration opportunities for Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR
Expand your deals with new integrations: Jamf Protect, Trend Micro Vision One, Trend Micro Email Security, and Ubiquiti Unifi integrations are now available for Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR customers. Explore MDR/XDR integrations
Sophos ZTNA: Deployment enhancements
- Let’s Encrypt certificate support – Sophos ZTNA now supports Let’s Encrypt certificates for ZTNA gateways, offering free and easy TLS encryption with auto-renewal 30 days before their 90-day expiry. This reduces maintenance while complementing the existing wildcard certificate option for both cloud and on-premises deployments. Watch the demo video.
- Five new Sophos Central regions – Sophos ZTNA central management is now supported in Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, and Canada. Partners and customers managing Sophos Firewall and/or Endpoints in these regions can now easily add Sophos ZTNA to their account. These enhancements are applied automatically and don’t require any updates to ZTNA gateways or clients. Learn more.
Sophos Email: Language detection feature
The new language detection feature in Sophos Email Advanced allows users to block messages in languages not relevant to their business. Combined with existing Country of Origin and Anti-Spam protection, it strengthens defenses against spam and unwanted messages, boosting user productivity. Learn more.
Ongoing product enhancements
We continually update all our solutions, adding new functionality, fixes, and support. Recent enhancements include:
- Sophos Endpoint 2024.3, delivering a host of new capabilities including enhanced ability to block compromised devices and threat lineage visualizations in the Threat Analysis Center that show attack paths and techniques.
- Central Switch management, enabling PoE management from Central for Sophos Switch models that provide PoE. Learn more.
- Sophos Firewall OS v20 MR3. A maintenance release that resolves 35+ important performance, reliability, stability and security fixes. Updates include FIPS 140-3 certification as well as the added ability to remove the missing heartbeat status of endpoints. Learn more.
THREAT THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
In the ongoing battle against attackers, Sophos X-Ops continues to lead from the front. Latest publications from the team include:
- The Bite from Inside: The Sophos Active Adversary Report – the latest Active Adversary Report reveals new insights into the war between attackers and defenders.
- Sophos MDR tracks two ransomware campaigns using “email bombing,” Microsoft Teams “vishing” – this article explores a new threat cluster riffing on the playbook of Storm-1811, and amped-up activity from the original connected to Black Basta ransomware.
- Phishing platform Rockstar 2FA trips, and “FlowerStorm” picks up the pieces – exploring the sudden disruption of a major phishing-as-a-service provider which has led to the rise of another…that looks very familiar.
RECOGNITION
G2 Winter 2025 Reports
We’re thrilled to share that Sophos (again!) ranked #1 overall for Firewall, MDR, and EDR. Learn more.
SE Labs
Sophos had another solid showing in the SE Labs Endpoint Protection tests for Enterprise and SMB. More important than the single test results is our continued consistency, as you can see by this summary of the four quarterly tests conducted in 2024:
AV-TEST
Sophos Endpoint (Intercept X) once again earned a protection score of 6 out of 6 for both Windows and macOS in the December AV-Test Business Endpoint tests. This makes Sophos one of just three vendors to be AV-Test Approved in the latest round of testing.
