Sophos Advisory Services
Test your defences
Identify vulnerable areas and strengthen your resilience with proactive security testing and assessment services informed by top threat intelligence and provided by security professionals.


91%
Organisations that report seeking advisory and consultancy services when establishing strategic security architecture.
32%
Ransomware victims identified exposed vulnerabilities as the most common root cause of incidents.
61%
Web applications exhibit at least one security vulnerability of high or critical severity not listed in the OWASP Top 10.
WHY YOU NEED ADVISORY SERVICES
Expert, independent guidance to strengthen your defences
See how your networks, systems, and employees fare against simulated attacks before an adversary strikes.
SOPHOS ADVISORY SERVICES
What Sophos Advisory Services deliver
Sophos assesses your controls and policies as an adversary would using a range of security testing and assessment services. These services support a proactive and strategic approach to cybersecurity, helping to identify vulnerabilities in your environment, strengthen your defences, and enhance your resilience.
External Penetration Testing
Simulates how an attacker could find and exploit vulnerabilities to breach your network, enabling you to proactively strengthen your security posture and reduce their overall attack surface.
Internal Penetration Testing
Mimics internal threat actors and unauthorized outside attackers by emulating attacks from users with legitimate access to the network or those gaining access via compromised accounts.
Wireless Network Penetration Testing
Attempts to compromise wireless networks and evaluates the overall security and compliance posture of an organisation’s wireless environment.
Download the Wireless Network Penetration Testing solution brochure
Web Application Security Assessment
Evaluates web applications to identify vulnerabilities such as broken access controls, security misconfigurations, and application design issues.
Download the Web Application Security Assessment solution brochure
FEATURES
Aligned with your objectives
Sophos Advisory Services employ a goal-based methodology that ensures systems are tested within the broader context of their environment to deliver a high-value, meaningful outcome for your organisation.
- Tried and tested through thousands of engagements with organisations of all sizes.
- Establish tailored goals and objectives for each test upfront with your organization.
- Detailed findings in post-engagement report with recommendations for remediation or risk reduction.
- Remediation validation included for discovered critical- and high-severity items you rectify within 90 days.
- Ensure you get the most value from your test.

AT YOUR SERVICE
Our Advisory Services are delivered by the dedicated, award-winning testing team that joined Sophos in the acquisition of Secureworks. Our testers have extensive cross-discipline security expertise covering security research, threat intelligence, law enforcement, military, and other backgrounds.
Industry-specific expertise
Across malware, hardware, application development, network, cloud, IoT, mobile, and more.
Integrated threat intelligence
Sophos X-Ops research combined with insights gained via security testing research and thousands of engagements.
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