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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.

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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. Trend Micro’s complex management consoles mean more work for administrators and a greater chance of the wrong settings being inadvertently applied.

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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.

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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

FEATURES Sophos Trend Micro

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

Fully 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

Fully provided

(Limitation of 10MB file size for rollback)

Management, Investigation, and Remediation

 

 

Single console for management, reporting, and security operations

Fully provided

Not provided

Alert triage and assistance

Fully provided

Partially provided

Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities

Fully provided

Fully provided

Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC

Fully provided

Fully provided

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

Fully provided

Fully 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

Partially provided

(Third party integrations apply only to XDR, not MDR)

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, 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.

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