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Prevent Breaches, Ransomware, and Data Loss with Sophos

Adversaries can execute sophisticated attacks at scale, targeting your users, network and cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and servers. It’s not surprising that IT security teams are constantly searching for security solutions that provide better protection and visibility across their estate. Sophos protects your organization with a prevention-first approach and provides a holistic view of your organization's environment with native and third-party security integrations, enabling you to detect, investigate, and respond to threats in your environment.

A Unified Security Ecosystem

Cybercriminals don’t just attack endpoints. Get the full picture with Sophos. Bitdefender does not offer networking hardware (Next-Gen Firewall, Wireless, Switches) or ZTNA.

A Unified Security Ecosystem

Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, and cloud security, as well as third-party security controls in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem. Sophos Central is a single management console built for organizations of all sizes and capabilities. You can manage your security on your own, or Sophos MDR can detect, investigate, and respond to threats for you.

Context-Sensitive Defenses

Don’t let attackers live off your land. Sophos dynamically increases defenses on the device, severely limiting the options available to an active attacker.

Context-Sensitive Defenses

When Sophos detects a hands-on-keyboard attack, we automatically activate extra defenses on the endpoint with a "shields up" approach. Sophos Adaptive Attack Protection blocks suspicious activities like downloads of remote admin tools, disrupting the attack and giving your team valuable time to respond.

You Can’t Detect What You Can’t See

When hunting for threats, you don’t want to be limited. You want visibility across your estate with all the guidance and automation you can get.

You Can’t Detect What You Can’t See

Sophos has the industry's only security operations platform that brings together native endpoint, server, firewall, email, and cloud security, as well as third-party security controls. Threat hunt across the Sophos data lake or pivot to a device for real-time state and up to 90 days of historical data. Get a holistic view of your organization's environment enriched with Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence for threat detection, investigation, and response designed for dedicated SOC teams and IT admins. Bitdefender XDR has fewer integrations, reducing visibility and potentially increasing the likelihood a threat will be missed.

Sophos vs. Bitdefender

FEATURES	Sophos	Bitdefender
Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution
Offers a comprehensive, integrated platform that covers endpoint, firewall, email, cloud, mobile, SD-WAN, remote access, and wireless security.	Yes	No
Curated Application Control with categorized list of applications	Yes	No
Curated Data Loss Prevention with categorized list of data detectors	Yes	No
Single console for management, reporting, and security operations	Yes	Yes
Adaptive Attack Protection	Yes	No
Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture	Yes	No
A Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products	Yes	No
Ransomware protection
Protection against remote ransomware	Yes	Yes (off by default)
Automatic document rollback after encryption by ransomware	Yes	Yes (off by default)
Management, Investigation, and Remediation
Alert triage and assistance	Yes	Yes
Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities	Yes	Yes
Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC	Yes	Yes
Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC	Yes	Yes
Threat Hunting and Response
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality	Yes	Yes
Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment	Yes	Yes
MDR service provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and unlimited remediation to organizations of all sizes, with support available over the phone or through email	Yes	Yes
Comprehensive remote incident response included in top MDR tier	Yes	No
XDR and MDR that can can integrate with a broad ecosystem of third-party endpoint, firewall, email, cloud and network solutions.	Yes	No
Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR)	Yes	Yes
Industry Analyst Recognition
A Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms	Yes	No
A Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses	Yes	No
A Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response	Yes	No
A Leader in Frost & Sullivan's 2024 Frost Radar report for Managed Detection and Response	Yes	No

Adaptive Attack Protection

Adaptive Attack Protection is a dynamic step up in endpoint security. When a hands-on-keyboard attack is detected, Sophos Endpoint automatically activates extra defenses based on a "shields up" perspective. It stops an attacker and provides you with time to respond. For more information, watch the Adaptive Attack Protection video.

A Unified Security Ecosystem

Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, cloud security, and third-party security controls in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem and single management console that Bitdefender can't match. All of your Sophos products are continuously optimized with real-time threat intelligence and operational insights from Sophos X-Ops.

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Disclaimer: This document was prepared for informational purposes only based on publicly available data as of Feb 2024.