Strengthen your ransomware defenses

Get world-leading security services and tools that defend against even the most advanced and novel ransomware attacks.

State of Ransomware 2025 report

Ransomware remains a major threat to all organizations. Stopping these advanced attacks requires strong, adaptive defense technologies across your environment together with 24/7 expert-led detection and response.

For the best ransomware defense, deploy Sophos Endpoint on all your devices and use Sophos MDR or Sophos XDR to detect and respond to advanced, human-led attacks. Further extend your protection with Sophos Email, Sophos Firewall, and Sophos NDR.

Sophos Endpoint: the foundation of your ransomware defense

Top-rated in independent tests including SE Labs and MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations, Sophos Endpoint includes multiple innovative technologies that automatically stop ransomware attacks before they impact your business.

Challenge: Remote ransomware attacks use a compromised machine to encrypt protected devices.

CryptoGuard universal ransomware protection stops both local and remote encryption, automatically rolling back affected files to their unencrypted state.

Challenge: Ransomware actors are getting faster, leaving defenders less time to stop the attack.

Adaptive Attack Protection dynamically enables heightened defenses when a human adversary is detected, containing the attack and buying defenders time to respond.

Challenge: Exploited vulnerabilities were the #1 root cause of ransomware attacks in the last year.

60+ exploit mitigations stop the techniques adversaries use to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities – all deployed automatically out of the box, no configuration required.

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Sophos MDR: the best defense against advanced ransomware attacks

Active adversaries work hard to move unnoticed, launching attacks during nights and weekends and using legitimate IT tools to avoid triggering detections.

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Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services provide 24/7 monitoring and expert threat response, proven to stop even the most advanced ransomware attacks.

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88% of ransomware attacks start outside standard business hours

Sophos MDR monitors your environment around the clock, with 500+ threat and malware specialists across seven global security operations centers.

63% of organizations fall victim due to a lack of people or skills to stop the attack in time.

Backed by years of hands-on experience, Sophos MDR analysts investigate and respond to suspicious signals and alerts on your behalf, taking action to stop confirmed threats. Proactive, expert-led threat hunts detect especially stealthy or novel attacks.

Ransomware actors constantly try new approaches.

Sophos MDR detects and stops attacks across your entire environment using security data and telemetry from your existing Sophos and non-Sophos cybersecurity and IT solutions.

Sophos XDR: See and stop ransomware attacks in your environment.

Designed and used by Sophos’ own threat analysts, Sophos’ open AI-native XDR platform enables your own team to detect, investigate, and respond to ransomware and other threats in the shortest time. It integrates with the security tools you use today, so you can get more ROI from your existing investments.

Gain full visibility and insights into evasive threats across all key attack surfaces.
Optimize investigations with GenAI-powered tools and workflows.
Rapidly contain threats with accelerated and automated response capabilities.

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Sophos NDR: Stop ransomware actors exploiting unmanaged devices

Unmanaged devices are a challenge for every organization – and a gift to ransomware actors. In fact, 92% of remote ransomware attacks now start on unmanaged devices.

Sophos Network Detection and Response (NDR) continuously monitors network traffic to detect a wide range of security risks, including rogue devices, unprotected devices, insider threats, zero-day attacks, and threats involving IoT and OT devices.

It enables you to see and remediate unmanaged devices in your environment before they can be compromised by adversaries. Sophos NDR is available to any organization running Sophos MDR or Sophos XDR.

Sophos Firewall: Best practices built-in to protect your network from ransomware

Network security devices like Firewalls are constantly under attack to exploit vulnerabilities. Sophos Firewall has been hardened to make it a difficult target, and we make patching critical vulnerabilities easy with over-the-air updates that don’t require downtime. You also get the best AI protection to identify threats before they get on your network. Plus, you get something you won’t find anywhere else. Active Threat Response and Synchronized Security that can provide a cross-product automated response to stop an active attack dead in its tracks.

Sophos Email: Secure your inboxes from ransomware

More than 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with a phishing email. Sophos Email blocks more than 13.9 million malicious emails each week, leveraging SophosLabs’ latest AI-powered machine learning, natural language processing of message content, sender authentication technologies (SPK, DKIM, DMARC) and expertise to defend your inboxes from email-based ransomware attacks as well as business email compromise (BEC) and SPAM.

Sophos Email is available standalone and also integrates for free with both Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR, delivering the industry’s best email protection, detection, and response capabilities in a single platform. Sophos Email delivers more than 800K detections to Sophos MDR every month.

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Stop an active ransomware attack

If you are in the middle of an active threat, call us at any time to speak with one of our Incident Advisors. Our team will advise on the fastest, most effective plan of action, with most customers fully triaged within 48 hours.

Sources:
The 2025 Sophos Active Adversary Report
Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024
The State of Ransomware 2025, Sophos
CISA

Strengthen your ransomware defenses

Get world-leading security services and tools that defend against even the most advanced and novel ransomware attacks.

Sophos Endpoint: the foundation of your ransomware defense

Challenge: Remote ransomware attacks use a compromised machine to encrypt protected devices.

Challenge: Ransomware actors are getting faster, leaving defenders less time to stop the attack.

Challenge: Exploited vulnerabilities were the #1 root cause of ransomware attacks in the last year.

Sophos MDR: the best defense against advanced ransomware attacks

88% of ransomware attacks start outside standard business hours

63% of organizations fall victim due to a lack of people or skills to stop the attack in time.

Ransomware actors constantly try new approaches.

Sophos XDR: See and stop ransomware attacks in your environment.

Sophos NDR: Stop ransomware actors exploiting unmanaged devices

Sophos Firewall: Best practices built-in to protect your network from ransomware

Sophos Email: Secure your inboxes from ransomware

Stop an active ransomware attack

Sophos MDR: the best defense against advanced ransomware attacks

88% of ransomware attacks start outside standard business hours

63% of organizations fall victim due to a lack of people or skills to stop the attack in time.

Ransomware actors constantly try new approaches.

Sophos XDR: See and stop ransomware attacks in your environment.

Sophos NDR: Stop ransomware actors exploiting unmanaged devices

Stop an active ransomware attack

Sophos Email: Secure your inboxes from ransomware

Sophos Firewall: Best practices built-in to protect your network from ransomware

Sophos Emergency Incident Response: Expert ransomware response service

Sophos Emergency Incident Response: Expert ransomware response service

Sophos State of Ransomware 2025 Report