Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Protect against sophisticated
multi-stage, multi-vector attacks
Sophos XDR provides powerful tools and threat intelligence that allow you to detect, investigate, and respond to suspicious activities throughout your entire IT ecosystem, delivered via Sophos’ adaptive AI-native, open platform.
Sophos Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Overview
55%
of ransomware attacks use legitimate credentials or exploit an unknown vulnerability to infiltrate organisations.
7 days
The median attacker dwell time in cases investigated by the Sophos Incident Response team.
76%
of organisations experienced cybersecurity burnout over the last year.
A 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ “Customers’ Choice” for Extended Detection and Response
Sophos is the highest-rated and most-reviewed vendor and a “Customers’ Choice” in the 2025 Voice of the Customer report for Extended Detection and Response with a 4.8/5.0 rating, based on 257 reviews.
YOUR CHALLENGES
Protect against attacks that individual tools alone cannot prevent.
Active adversaries are highly skilled cybercriminals who carry out attacks on a large scale and use sophisticated tactics intended to avoid triggering preventative security solutions. These human-led attacks pose a significant risk to organisations of all sizes.
Complex and evolving threat environment
Today’s attacks are multi-vector, increasingly complex, and able to evade preventive security tools and technologies focused on single control points.
Data silos and blind spots
Disparate security tools operating in isolation create manual work for your team to correlate data, and blind spots that result in threats going unnoticed within your environment.
Increased workload and alert fatigue
Security teams are inundated by a high volume of alerts from multiple tools, resulting in analyst fatigue and the risk of overlooking threats.
OVERVIEW
Stopping sophisticated attacks quickly is critical.
Sophos’ AI-native open platform enables you to detect, investigate, and respond to multi-stage, multi-vector threats in the shortest time.
Maximise analyst efficiency and accelerate investigation and response with AI-powered tools.
Detect and stop adversaries as they move, with complete visibility across all key attack vectors.
Increase ROI by integrating existing security and IT tools to detect and neutralise attacks.
Rapidly contain and remediate threats with a comprehensive analyst response actions.
Elevate your defences with best-in-class endpoint security — automatically included with Sophos XDR.
FEATURES
Powerful tools and threat intelligence delivered through an AI-native, open platform.
Sophos XDR enables you to quickly identify, investigate and neutralise multi-stage, multi-vector threats across your entire security ecosystem.
Powerful threat detection, investigation, and response tools
AI-powered investigation and threat hunting
AI tools included with Sophos XDR streamline investigations by providing real-time insights, contextualising threat data, and offering natural language-driven recommendations.
Prioritised detections
Easily identify suspicious activity that requires immediate attention. Sophos XDR automatically prioritises detections across all key attack surfaces based on risk.
MITRE ATT&CK Framework mapping
Detections and cases are automatically mapped to MITRE ATT&CK Tactics, enabling you to identify gaps in your defences.
Collaborative case management
Automatic case creation enables rapid investigation, with comprehensive case management tools for collaboration with team members.
Automated replies
Fully automated actions such as process termination, ransomware rollback, network isolation, and adaptive attack protection swiftly neutralise threats and save valuable time.
Analyst response actions
Your security analysts can carry out a wide range of response actions to quickly contain and neutralise threats, including in Microsoft 365 environments, directly from the Sophos XDR platform.
Feature Focus: Generative AI in Sophos XDR
Accelerate security operations with AI
Extensive GenAI capabilities in Sophos XDR empower your security analysts to neutralise adversaries faster, increasing both analyst and business confidence.
- AI Assistant makes it easy for users of all skill levels to access the information they need to progress threat investigations.
- AI Case Summary provides an easy-to-understand overview of detections, helping analysts make smart decisions fast.
- AI Command Analysis delivers insights into attacker behaviour by examining commands that create detections.
- AI Search and pre-canned query templates enable you to find the data you need more quickly, without requiring expertise in SQL.
Sophos AI Assistant
This isn't merely another AI tool — it's knowledge from the team behind the world's foremost Managed Detection and Response service, concentrated into an intelligent agent.
- Conduct an extensive range of SecOps tasks: Analyse suspicious commands, identify impacted entities, enrich data with threat intelligence, create detailed reports, and more.
- Ask questions using everyday language or pre-defined prompts provided by Sophos’ threat experts. Benefit from natural language summaries and recommended next steps.
- Designed in partnership with Sophos’ frontline security analysts, enabling your in-house team to benefit from real-world workflows and the experience of Sophos MDR experts.
Feature Focus: The Sophos AI Assistant
An open platform designed to optimise and unify.
Ingest and correlate data from multiple sources — choose the solutions you need from Sophos’ extensive portfolio or integrate your existing technology investments.
Sophos "XDR-ready" product integrations
Sophos solutions work together seamlessly to deliver the best possible security outcomes. Our wide range of award-winning products, including Endpoint, Firewall, NDR, ZTNA, Email, Cloud, and Mobile, are fully integrated into the XDR platform — and the top-notch protection of Sophos Endpoint is automatically included with your Sophos XDR subscription.
Non-Sophos technology integrations
Get more ROI from the security tools you use today by integrating them into our open platform. Sophos XDR includes turnkey integrations with an extensive ecosystem of third-party endpoint, firewall, network, email, identity, backup, cloud security, and productivity tools, including Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
A representative sample of Sophos XDR technology integrations.
Demo: Sophos XDR Attack Simulation
Sophos XDR attack simulation
See Sophos XDR in action, blocking threats and enabling analysts to quickly investigate and respond to suspicious activity using AI-powered tools and intuitive workflows.
In this attack simulation, detections generated by Sophos Endpoint, a non-Sophos firewall, and an email filtering platform, are automatically grouped into a single case by Sophos XDR for investigation and rapid remediation.
See why customers choose Sophos
A strong performer in MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations for enterprise products (XDR) and managed services.
A Leader in G2 Overall Grid® Reports for Extended Detection and Response (XDR) as rated by customers.
A 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ “Customers’ Choice” vendor for Extended Detection and Response (XDR).
A Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software 2025.
RELATED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Cybersecurity for all your needs
Sophos Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Sophos XDR includes Sophos EDR capabilities Elevate your endpoint defences with detection and response tools.
- Gain insights into evasive threats across your endpoints and servers.
- Includes powerful capabilities for IT operations and security analysts.
- Single agent for endpoint protection, detection, and response.
- Contain threats with accelerated and automated response tools.
- Multi-platform, multi-OS support.
Sophos Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
Sophos ITDR is an add-on for Sophos XDR, providing a holistic approach to reducing your organisation's identity risk.
- Protect against advanced identity-based attacks.
- Identify misconfigurations and security gaps to minimise your attack surface.
- Uncover login credentials exposed on the dark web and breach databases.
- Speed up your response to identity threats with analyst interventions.
- Investigate abnormal activity associated with the use of stolen credentials.
Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Free up IT and security staff and benefit from superior security outcomes delivered as a managed service by our highly skilled analysts.
- Instant security operations centre (SOC).
- 24/7 threat detection and response.
- Proactive threat hunting.
- Full-scale incident response.
- Keep the cybersecurity software you already have.
- The most robust MDR service for Microsoft environments.
- Breach protection warranty.
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