Sophos Advisory Services
Put your defenses to the test
Identify weak spots and fortify your resilience with proactive security testing and assessment services informed by leading threat intelligence and delivered by security experts.


91%
Organizations that report seeking advisory and consultancy services when establishing strategic security architecture.
32%
Ransomware victims that identified exposed vulnerabilities as the most common root cause of incidents.
61%
Web applications exhibit at least one high or critical severity security vulnerability not listed in the OWASP Top 10.
WHY YOU NEED ADVISORY SERVICES
Expert, independent guidance to strengthen your defenses
See how your networks, systems, and employees stand up to simulated attacks before an adversary strikes.
SOPHOS ADVISORY SERVICES
What Sophos Advisory Services deliver
Sophos evaluates your controls and policies as an adversary would through a variety of security testing and assessment services. These services support a proactive and strategic approach to cybersecurity, helping to identify vulnerabilities in your environment, strengthen your defenses, and enhance your resilience.
External Penetration Testing
Simulates how an attacker could find and exploit vulnerabilities to breach your network, enabling you to proactively strengthen your security posture and reduce their overall attack surface.
Internal Penetration Testing
Mimics internal threat actors and unauthorized outside attackers by emulating attacks from users with legitimate access to the network or those gaining access via compromised accounts.
Wireless Network Penetration Testing
Attempts to compromise wireless networks and evaluates the overall security and compliance posture of an organization’s wireless environment.
Download the Wireless Network Penetration Testing solution brochure
Web Application Security Assessment
Evaluates web applications to identify vulnerabilities such as broken access controls, security misconfigurations, and application design issues.
Download the Web Application Security Assessment solution brochure
FEATURES
Aligned with your objectives
Sophos Advisory Services employ a goal-based methodology that ensures systems are tested in the greater context of their environment to deliver a high-value, meaningful outcome for your organization.
- Tried and tested over thousands of engagements with organizations of all sizes.
- Establish tailored goals and objectives for each test upfront with your organization.
- Detailed findings in post-engagement report with recommendations for remediation or risk reduction.
- Remediation validation included for discovered critical- and high-severity items you rectify within 90 days.
- Ensure you get the most value from your test.

AT YOUR SERVICE
Our Advisory Services are delivered by the dedicated, award-winning testing team that joined Sophos in the acquisition of Secureworks. Our testers possess vast cross-discipline security expertise spanning security research, threat intelligence, law enforcement, military and other backgrounds.
Industry-specific expertise
Across malware, hardware, application development, network, cloud, IoT, mobile, and more.
Integrated threat intelligence
Sophos X-Ops research combined with insights gained via security testing research and thousands of engagements.
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