Sophos is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Report for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response (MDR) 2024 Vendor Assessment
April 30 2024 - 1:42PM
Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions that
defeat cyberattacks, today announced it is a Leader in the IDC
MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Detection and Response (MDR) 2024
Vendor Assessment*, which evaluates 19 MDR vendors. Sophos was also
named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape reports for Worldwide Modern
Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses 2024 Vendor Assessment**
and the Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Small Businesses
2024 Vendor Assessment***.
We believe Sophos being named a Leader in three IDC MarketScape
reports validates its commitment to understanding and meeting the
needs of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with the most
expansive portfolio of world-class products and managed security
services that are compatible with virtually any environment or tech
stack.
According to the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection
and Response (MDR), “Organizations looking for cost certainty,
whether that is through their simplified predictable pricing
method, or looking for unlimited incident response services paired
with a $1 million warranty, should consider utilizing Sophos for
their MDR needs.”
We believe Sophos MDR is also an ideal choice for organizations
with diverse security solutions in their environments. The IDC
MarketScape, noted, “Sophos MDR has expanded its detection
capabilities beyond their Sophos products. Data is collected from
third party alert sources across multiple domains, which include
but are not limited to endpoint, firewall, cloud, and
identity.”
"Sophos is uniquely able to integrate telemetry from third-party
security technologies into our MDR services. In doing so, we’re
delivering a managed service that truly meets customers where they
are and enables us to quickly detect and remediate attacks
regardless of customers’ existing security solutions," said Rob
Harrison, senior vice president for endpoint and security
operations product management at Sophos. "We recently partnered
with Tenable to further enhance Sophos MDR with Tenable’s
technology, which is helping address resource-stretched IT and
security teams’ need for hands-on vulnerability management
resolution. With this combined solution, customers benefit from a
dedicated team of Sophos experts, including Tenable-certified
vulnerability analysts, that help them clearly understand and
prioritize the highest risk exposures. We believe this recognition
from the IDC MarketScape reaffirms our commitment to ongoing
innovations like this that protect small and midsize businesses,
and we’re proud to be valued for the protection we provide to
businesses against persistent threats from cybercriminals.”
Sophos MDR is the most widely adopted MDR offering protecting
more than 21,000 organizations globally. Organizations can now
augment Sophos MDR with Sophos Managed Risk, a new vulnerability
and attack surface management service. Through a strategic
partnership with Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, Sophos
Managed Risk features a dedicated Sophos team that leverages
Tenable's exposure management technology. The team also
collaborates with the security operations experts from Sophos MDR
to provide attack surface visibility, continuous risk monitoring,
vulnerability prioritization, investigation, and proactive
notification designed to prevent cyberattacks.
“With simple pricing and flexible service models, Sophos is
named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Detection
and Response (MDR) 2024 Vendor Assessment for providing an
easy-to-understand option for companies looking to strengthen their
cybersecurity defenses and address complex security needs," said
Craig Robinson, Research Vice President of Security Services, IDC.
"The recent introduction of Sophos Managed Risk also demonstrates
their commitment to addressing the evolving challenges of their
customers in an ever-changing cybersecurity landscape.”
Sophos’ portfolio of managed security services and solutions –
including Sophos MDR, Sophos Intercept X, Sophos XDR, and Sophos
Firewall – are part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem
where they share real-time threat intelligence for faster and more
contextual and synchronized protection, detection and response.
They’re powered by Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence, a
cross-operational task force of more than 500 security experts
within SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and SophosAI. Solutions are easily
managed in the cloud-native Sophos Central platform, where users
can oversee installations, respond to alerts and track licenses and
upcoming renewal dates via a single, intuitive interface.
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Doc #US49006922, April 2024. |
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Doc #US50521424, March 2024. |
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Doc #US50521323, February
2024. |
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About IDC MarketScapeIDC MarketScape vendor
assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the
competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications
technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology
utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative
and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical
illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC
MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and
service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and
future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors
can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides
technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and
weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
About SophosSophos is a global leader and
innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks,
including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident
response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network,
email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest
pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000
organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active
adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’
services and products connect through the Sophos Central management
console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain
threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the
entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a
centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs
available to customers, partners, developers, and other
cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides
cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed
security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity
directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid
approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’
services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells
through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs)
worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information
is available at www.sophos.com.
Contact: Samantha Powers, sophos@walkersands.com