Sophos has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection. This marks the 17th consecutive report in which Sophos has been recognized as a Leader in this category. 

We believe this continued recognition reflects both the durability of Sophos’ endpoint protection strategy and the progress we have made in helping organizations defend against a rapidly changing threat landscape, including the rise of AI-powered attacks.

For security teams, endpoint protection is no longer simply about stopping attacks on a device. It is about detecting, understanding, and responding to threats that move across users, identities, endpoints, networks, cloud environments, email, and browsers. 

From endpoint tools to coordinated cyber defense 

In our view, 17 consecutive recognitions as a Leader represent more than consistency. We believe it demonstrates Sophos’ continued ability to evolve and innovate in line with the broader market shift away from standalone endpoint products and toward integrated security systems that can defend across the full attack surface.

Today’s defenders need security controls that work together, share context, and act with speed. That is why Sophos continues to invest in a cyber defense system that connects protection, detection, investigation, and response across the environments where attacks unfold.

We feel this recognition is consistent with our continued focus on:

• Coordinated protection across endpoint, identity, network, email, cloud, and browser 
• AI-assisted detection and response workflows that help analysts move faster, and with confidence 
• A cyber defense system designed to scale from mid-market organizations to enterprise environments 

Defending in the AI-on-AI era 

Cybersecurity has entered an AI-on-AI era. Attackers are using automation and AI to accelerate reconnaissance, generate convincing social engineering, adapt malware, and move through environments faster than traditional defenses can often respond.

That speed changes what organizations need from endpoint security.

The endpoint remains one of the most important control points in the enterprise, but attacks rarely begin and end there. Modern adversaries move across identities, devices, networks, cloud workloads, inboxes, and browsers. They exploit gaps between tools, disconnected telemetry, and slow handoffs between teams.

Defenders need a defense system, not a collection of fragmented products. When every layer of defense shares intelligence and strengthens the others, organizations are better equipped to detect coordinated activity, focus on the right signals, and respond before an incident becomes a breach.

This is the model behind the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System: integrated technologies, services, and threat intelligence working together to detect, correlate, and respond to threats in real time.

Recognition across protection, detection, and response 

We believe Sophos’ recognition in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection is part of a broader pattern of industry validation throughout endpoint protection, extended detection and response (XDR), managed detection and response (MDR), and firewall solutions: 

• Sophos is named a 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice in the 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Report for Endpoint Protection
• Sophos is named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Report for Extended Detection and Response
• Sophos is ranked as the #1 Overall solution in Endpoint Protection (EPP), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and Firewall Software in the G2 Spring 2026 Grid® Reports
• Sophos achieved 100% detection coverage in the MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise 2025 Evaluation

Together, we feel these recognitions reinforce what Sophos is focused on delivering: security that works as a system, adapts with the threat landscape, and helps organizations strengthen their defenses without adding unnecessary complexity.

Stronge endpoint protection remains critical. But in today’s AI-driven threat environment, it's most powerful when it's part of a broader, coordinated defense.

For more information about Sophos Endpoint, visit sophos.com/endpoint

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection, Deepak Mishra, Evgeny Mirolyubov, Nikul Patel, 26 May 2026

Gartner ®, Peer Insights ™ ‘Voice of the Customer’: Managed Detection and Response, Peer Contributors, 31 March 2026 

Gartner®, Peer Insights™, Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection, Peer Contributors, 23 May 2026 

Gartner®, Peer Insights™, Voice of the Customer for Extended Detection and Response, Peer Contributors, 23 May 2025 

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