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Prevent Breaches, Ransomware, and Data Loss with Sophos
Sophos provides comprehensive protection to reduce security incidents, alerts, and response time. We also help organizations consolidate their cybersecurity spending, minimize their management burden, and speed up their incident response time.
Intuitive Management
We provide one location where you can manage your policies, view alerts, and detect and respond to threats across your security operations.
Intuitive Management
Sophos Central is a cloud-based management console that allows you to manage all of your Sophos products in one place and hunt for and investigate threats. The Account Health Check within Sophos Central helps you identify and address security issues. Trend Micro’s complex management consoles mean more work for administrators and a greater chance of the wrong settings being inadvertently applied.
Context-Sensitive Defenses
Don’t let attackers live off your land. Trend Micro does not automatically adapt its defenses based on the context of the device.
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, giving your team valuable time to respond.
The R in MDR Stands for Response
Imagine you could outsource your SOC, in part or entirely, and have them respond to threats in your environment. We provide Managed Detection and Response.
The R in MDR Stands for Response
Sophos MDR is a fully managed threat hunting, detection, and response service that integrates with Sophos and third-party security controls. It provides you with a dedicated 24/7 security team to detect and neutralize the most sophisticated and complex threats. Trend Micro sends you alerts and assumes you have fully trained analysts who know how to investigate and respond to them.
Sophos vs. Trend Micro
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Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution |
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Attack surface reduction, with multiple technologies for web protection, application control, and device control that eliminate attack vectors and protect against data loss |
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Strong protection by default without configuration |
Partially provided | |
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Defenses that automatically adapt to human-led attacks |
Not provided |
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Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture |
Not provided |
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A Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products |
Not provided |
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Automatic document rollback after encryption by ransomware |
(Limitation of 10MB file size for rollback) |
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Management, Investigation, and Remediation |
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Single console for management, reporting, and security operations |
Not provided |
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Alert triage and assistance |
Partially provided | |
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Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities |
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Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC |
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Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC |
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Threat Hunting and Response |
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Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality |
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Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment, correlate information, and pivot between endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, public cloud, and Microsoft 365 data |
Partially provided | |
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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 |
Partially provided | |
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Incident response included in top MDR tier |
(Optional IR Retainer for lower MDR tiers) |
Not provided |
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Integration with third-party security control to leverage your existing security investments, gain full visibility into your environment, and provide detections and alerts to your team and the MDR team |
Partially provided (Third party integrations apply only to XDR, not MDR) |
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Monitor and generate detections across your third-party security controls and data sources |
Not provided |
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Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR) |
Not provided |
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 Trend Micro can't match. All of your Sophos products are continuously optimized with real-time threat intelligence and operational insights from Sophos X-Ops.