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Sophos provides comprehensive protection to reduce security incidents and alerts and deliver faster responses. We also help organizations consolidate their cybersecurity spending, minimize management burden, and speed up incident response time.

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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. ESET's tasks, triggers, and policy settings mean more work for administrators, a greater chance of inadvertently applying the wrong settings, and slower troubleshooting.

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A Unified Security Ecosystem

Cybercriminals don't just attack endpoints. Get the full picture with Sophos. ESET does not offer network or email security, leaving major gaps in the overall security posture of an organization.

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.

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Context-Sensitive Defenses

Don't let attackers live off your land. Sophos adapts its defenses based on the context of the device. ESET does not.

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.

Sophos vs. ESET

FEATURES Sophos ESET
Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution
Attack surface reduction, with multiple technologies for web protection, application control, and device control that eliminate attack vectors and protect against data loss

Fully provided

Partially provided
Strong protection by default without configuration

Fully provided

Partially provided
Defenses that automatically adapt to human-led attacks

Fully provided

Not provided

Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture

Fully provided

Not provided

A Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products

Fully provided

Not provided

Automatic document rollback after encryption by ransomware

Fully provided

Not provided

Management, Investigation, and Remediation
Single console for management, reporting, and security operations

Fully provided

Partially provided
Alert triage and assistance

Fully provided

Partially provided
Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities

Fully provided

Partially provided
Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC

Fully provided

Partially provided
Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC

Fully provided

Partially provided
Threat Hunting and Response
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality

Fully provided

Fully provided

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

Fully provided

Partially provided
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

Fully provided

Partially provided
Incident response included in top MDR tier

Fully provided

(Optional IR Retainer for lower MDR tiers)

Not provided

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

Fully provided

Not provided

Monitor and generate detections across your third-party security controls and data sources

Fully provided

Not provided

Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR)

Fully provided

Not provided

Active Threat Protection

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.

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A Unified Security Ecosystem

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

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