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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 provide the opportunity for organisations to consolidate their cybersecurity spending and reduce their security management burden. Customers opt for Sophos over SentinelOne to guarantee the best protection, visibility, and security results.
Exposure to Threats
SentinelOne closes the doors but opens the windows, as it lacks web protection and application control capabilities and creates opportunities for cybercriminals to attack.
Exposure to Threats
Sophos uses web, application, and peripheral controls to block common attack vectors and reduce your attack surface. Our AI-first protection, anti-ransomware and anti-exploitation capabilities, and other advanced technologies allow us to stop threats fast before they escalate.
Context-Sensitive Defences
Don’t let attackers live off your land. SentinelOne does not automatically adapt its defences based on the context of the device.
Context-Sensitive Defences
When Sophos detects a hands-on-keyboard attack, we automatically activate additional defences 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.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Cybercriminals don’t just attack endpoints. Get the full picture with Sophos. SentinelOne does not offer network or email security, leaving major gaps in the overall security posture of an organisation.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Consolidate your defences on a single AI-native platform. Combine Sophos’ endpoint, network, email, and cloud security with turnkey integrations that allow you to work with the cybersecurity and IT tools you use today. Get full visibility of threats across your environment and the means to respond effectively.
Sophos vs. SentinelOne
| FEATURES | Sophos | SentinelOne |
| 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 | Partially provided | |
| Defences 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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| Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products |
Not provided |
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| Behaviour-based ransomware protection and roll-back | (Rollback subject to Windows VSS limitations) | |
| Remote ransomware blocking and roll-back |
Not provided |
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| Feature parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux | Partially provided | Partially provided |
| Management, Investigation, and Remediation | ||
| Single management console for managing and reporting | ||
| Localised management console | (Nine languages) | Partially provided (Two languages - English and Japanese) |
| Alert triage and assistance | ||
| Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities | ||
| Default telemetry storage period | 90 Days | 14 Days |
| Suitable for customers without an in-house Security Operations Centre | ||
| Suitable for large enterprise organisations with a full in-house SOC | ||
| Threat Hunting and Response | ||
| Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality | ||
| 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 | |
| MDR service provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and unlimited remediation to organisations of all sizes, with support available over the phone or through email | ||
| Remote Incident response included in top MDR tier | (Optional IR Retainer for lower MDR tiers) | Partially provided |
| Integration with third-party security controls 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 | |
| Monitor and generate detections across your third-party security controls and data sources |
Not provided |
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| Optional network detection and response (NDR) including encrypted traffic analysis |
Not provided |
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| Breach protection guarantee | (Up to $1,000 per device, max. $1M) | (Max. $100,000 for <5,000 devices) |
| Independent Third-Party Testing | ||
| Strong protection demonstrated by consistent performance in third-party tests | (Regularly participates) |
Not provided (Rarely participates) |
| Customer Support | ||
| 24x7 support included |
Not provided (Standard support is 9x5) |
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Independent Third-Party Testing
Third-party testing helps organisations make informed decisions about their technology stack and security investments. Sophos believes in the informative and transparent value of regular participation in third-party tests. We have received high scores for performance, ease of use, and effectiveness in tests from SE Labs, AV-Test, and other third-party evaluators. SentinelOne rarely participates in third-party testing.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Consolidate your defences 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 SentinelOne can't match. All of your Sophos products are continuously optimised with real-time threat intelligence and operational insights from Sophos X-Ops.
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Disclaimer: This document was prepared for informational purposes only based on publicly available data as of August 2025.