What is Sophos Workspace Protection?

Sophos Workspace Protection is an integrated security solution designed to secure modern hybrid and remote work environments by protecting users, applications, and data directly where work happens—primarily in the web browser. It combines capabilities such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), DNS protection, and secure browsing into a single unified solution. By embedding controls into a hardened protected browser, it eliminates the need for complex infrastructure. This approach delivers effective protection with a frictionless and transparent user experience.

How is Sophos Workspace Protection different from traditional SASE or SSE solutions?

Unlike traditional SASE or SSE solutions that rely on routing traffic through cloud gateways, Workspace Protection secures the workspace directly at the endpoint and browser level. This removes the need for traffic backhauling and cloud-based man-in-the-middle TLS inspection, helping reduce latency as well as operational complexity and cost. Security policies are applied consistently wherever users are located. As a result, organizations benefit from a solution that offers maximum performance and affordability.

What components are included in the solution?

Workspace Protection is delivered as a tightly integrated bundle that includes Sophos Protected Browser, Sophos Protected Browser Extension, Sophos ZTNA, Sophos DNS Protection for endpoints, and the Sophos Email Monitoring System. These components collectively provide secure access to applications, protection from web-based threats, and enhanced email security visibility. The solution is managed centrally through Sophos Fusion. This integrated solution provides all the protection a modern workspace needs while simplifing deployment and ongoing management.

How does the Protected Browser improve security?

The Sophos Protected Browser acts as the central security control point, integrating multiple layers such as ZTNA, DNS filtering, and secure web gateway capabilities. It enables organisations to enforce policies on how users interact with applications and data, including restricting copy/paste or downloads. The browser is hardened against exploits while maintaining a familiar Chromium-based experience. This allows strong security enforcement without introducing usability challenges.

What types of use cases does Workspace Protection address?

Sophos Workspace Protection supports a wide range of use cases including securing hybrid workers, controlling SaaS and private application access, and preventing data leakage. It helps eliminate shadow IT by providing visibility into unsanctioned apps and usage. The solution also enables safe adoption of generative AI by monitoring and controlling which services are allowed and what data sharing operations are permitted. Additionally, it facilitates secure access for contractors and third-party users on unmanaged devices.

How does Workspace Protection secure remote and hybrid workers?

Workspace Protection enforces consistent security policies across users regardless of their location or device. It uses zero trust principles and supports Sophos Synchronized Security to ensure only authorised users on compliant and healthy devices can access applications and data. Because protection is embedded in the browser and endpoint, security follows users wherever they work. This provides seamless and secure access without compromising productivity.

How is Sophos Workspace Protection licensed?

Workspace Protection is licensed as a subscription, based on the number of users that require protection. The total license count is determined by the highest number of users or devices across the bundled products. Organisations can purchase it as a standalone offering or as part of a bundle that includes Sophos Endpoint.

What are the key business benefits for organisations?

Workspace Protection simplifies security by consolidating multiple capabilities into a single integrated solution, reducing operational overhead. It provides better visibility and control over applications, user activity, and data usage. By embedding controls directly into the workspace, it avoids complex infrastructure while maintaining strong security outcomes. Ultimately, organisations gain effective protection with a simpler deployment model and improved user experience.

Workspace Protection

Easy, affordable protection for your apps, data, and workers – everywhere

How people work has changed

Sophos Workspace Protection enables you to take back control of your business workspace.
Secure access to your apps, data, workers, and guests — everywhere, easily, and affordably.

Protect your apps

Provide controlled, secure access to all your private and SaaS apps while making your private apps invisible to the Internet.

Protect your data

Protect data from being copied or used inappropriately to prevent costly mistakes.

Protect your workers

Easily enable work from anywhere with consistent policy and protection, plus a frictionless user experience.

Protect your guests

Enable secure BYOD, contractor, M&A, and third-party access to your apps on unmanaged devices.

OVERVIEW

What Sophos Workspace Protection can do for you:

Take advantage of Sophos Workspace Protection to address your top security challenges with your distributed apps, data, and workers.

Shadow IT: Audit use of AI as a first step towards governance and control. Take advantage of the Sophos Protected Browser Extension to get easy and immediate insights to determine next steps

Generative AI: Audit use of AI as a first step towards governance and control. Take advantage of the Sophos Protected Browser Extension to get easy and immediate insights to determine next steps

ZTNA for SaaS Apps: Create a secure environment for your workers and contractors to access your SaaS applications and data. Use the Sophos Protected Browser to provide secure, policy-controlled access from any managed or unmanaged device.

ZTNA for Remote Workers: Enable secure access to your private and SaaS apps and data by employees working remotely. Use Sophos ZTNA and Protected Browser to define discrete access by policy, per app, per user.

OUTCOMES

Sophos Workspace Protection outcomes:

Sophos Workspace Protection provides visibility, control, and protection for your apps, data, and workers, you just can’t get any other way.

Eliminate shadow IT

Monitor and control unsanctioned web and SaaS application usage.

Enable generative AI adoption

Promote and monitor your sanctioned AI solution, control access, and restrict data movement.

Protect workers on the web

Enable consistent policy enforcement for web apps and access everywhere.

Prevent costly data mistakes

Block copy and paste or the exchange of sensitive data with websites and apps to prevent data leakage mistakes.

Protect your apps

Provide secure access to your own hosted applications while making them invisible to the outside world.

Secure guest access

Easily enable access to your apps and systems for guests, contractors, or acquisition staff.

Extend Synchronized Security

Utilize Sophos Synchronized Security to temporarily block compromised devices from accessing important apps and systems.

Protect against breaches

Protect your network from potential breaches that can arise from systems, apps, and workers being exposed to the Internet.

Enhance your email security

Enhance your email security posture with an extra layer of security that complements your existing defenses.

WHAT YOU GET

Easy, affordable protection for remote and hybrid workers

Sophos Workspace Protection is a tightly integrated solution bundle that makes protecting your apps, data, and remote and hybrid workers easy and affordable. It includes everything you need to provide transparent secure access for those who need it — everywhere they go — while protecting it from those who don’t.

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Protected Browser

Sophos Protected Browser, or it’s light-weight browser extension, secures the single most important app in your organization providing invaluable insights into shadow AI and IT. It also provides a hardened and secure gateway to all your important apps with integrated ZTNA, DNS, and local data controls in a Chromium browser or extension that is completely familiar and transparent.

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Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Sophos ZTNA provides secure access to only the applications that users need, while making them invisible to everyone else — including the outside world — protecting them from attack.

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DNS Protection

Sophos DNS Protection for endpoints adds an extra layer of security to protect against malicious and unwanted web content both in the browser and web-enabled applications.

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Email Monitoring System

The Sophos Email Monitoring System works with your existing email solution to enhance security, visibility, and reporting into advanced email threats that other solutions miss.

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Introducing the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System.

Sophos Fusion

Sophos Workspace Protection is part of Sophos Fusion, the world’s most complete cyber defense system, engineered for a world where threats move at AI speed.

Sophos Workspace Protection provides a critical control point for access to applications and data, enabling authorized access only when devices are compliant and automatically blocking active threats.

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Unify and Extend your Firewall and Endpoint Protection

Firewalls protect your network

Endpoints protect your devices

Workspace protects everything else

Affordable and easy

Sophos Workspace Protection is more affordable than cloud-delivered solutions, doesn’t require back-hauling or man-in-the-middle decryption, and is easy to deploy and scale.

You get a simple app you already need — a browser — that protects all your other apps, managed from a single cloud console: Sophos Fusion.

Sophos Workspace Protection is the perfect complement to your new or existing Sophos Firewall or Endpoint Protection deployment, but it can also add value to every environment.

Cybersecurity for all your needs

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

For organizations that are looking to augment their security operations capabilities, Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) reduces risk, simplifies security, maximizes your tech investments, and strengthens your defenses.

A global team of cybersecurity experts monitors your environment 24/7.
Industry-leading threat researchers constantly discover new threat groups and attack techniques.
Proactive threat hunting to find stealthy threats that elude detection by security tools.
Full-scale incident response to fully eliminate adversaries. No caps or extra fees.
Choose from a range of service tiers and threat response modes to meet your needs.

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Sophos Endpoint

Included and natively integrated with Taegis XDR. Sophos Endpoint delivers a comprehensive defense-in-depth approach to stop the broadest range of threats before they impact your systems.

Prevention first approach to block more threats upfront to minimize risk and reduce investigation and response workloads.
Adaptive defenses that stop active adversaries with dynamic protection that automatically adapts as an attack evolves.
Detection and response to neutralize sophisticated multi-stage attacks that can’t be stopped by technology alone.
Streamlined management interface to focus on the threat, not administration.

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Sophos Next-Gen Firewall

Sophos Next-Gen Firewall consolidates your network protection with our integrated and extensible platform to secure your hybrid networked world.

Expose hidden risks with superior visibility into risky activity, suspicious traffic, and advanced threats.
Stop unknown threats with protection technologies like deep learning and intrusion prevention that help keep your organization secure.
Automatic threat response instantly identifies and isolates compromised systems to stop threats from spreading.

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Frequently asked questions

Sophos Workspace Protection is an integrated security solution designed to secure modern hybrid and remote work environments by protecting users, applications, and data directly where work happens—primarily in the web browser. It combines capabilities such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), DNS protection, and secure browsing into a single unified solution. By embedding controls into a hardened protected browser, it eliminates the need for complex infrastructure. This approach delivers effective protection with a frictionless and transparent user experience.
Unlike traditional SASE or SSE solutions that rely on routing traffic through cloud gateways, Workspace Protection secures the workspace directly at the endpoint and browser level. This removes the need for traffic backhauling and cloud-based man-in-the-middle TLS inspection, helping reduce latency as well as operational complexity and cost. Security policies are applied consistently wherever users are located. As a result, organizations benefit from a solution that offers maximum performance and affordability.
Workspace Protection is delivered as a tightly integrated bundle that includes Sophos Protected Browser, Sophos Protected Browser Extension, Sophos ZTNA, Sophos DNS Protection for endpoints, and the Sophos Email Monitoring System. These components collectively provide secure access to applications, protection from web-based threats, and enhanced email security visibility. The solution is managed centrally through Sophos Fusion. This integrated solution provides all the protection a modern workspace needs while simplifing deployment and ongoing management.
The Sophos Protected Browser acts as the central security control point, integrating multiple layers such as ZTNA, DNS filtering, and secure web gateway capabilities. It enables organisations to enforce policies on how users interact with applications and data, including restricting copy/paste or downloads. The browser is hardened against exploits while maintaining a familiar Chromium-based experience. This allows strong security enforcement without introducing usability challenges.
Sophos Workspace Protection supports a wide range of use cases including securing hybrid workers, controlling SaaS and private application access, and preventing data leakage. It helps eliminate shadow IT by providing visibility into unsanctioned apps and usage. The solution also enables safe adoption of generative AI by monitoring and controlling which services are allowed and what data sharing operations are permitted. Additionally, it facilitates secure access for contractors and third-party users on unmanaged devices.
Workspace Protection enforces consistent security policies across users regardless of their location or device. It uses zero trust principles and supports Sophos Synchronized Security to ensure only authorised users on compliant and healthy devices can access applications and data. Because protection is embedded in the browser and endpoint, security follows users wherever they work. This provides seamless and secure access without compromising productivity.
Workspace Protection is licensed as a subscription, based on the number of users that require protection. The total license count is determined by the highest number of users or devices across the bundled products. Organisations can purchase it as a standalone offering or as part of a bundle that includes Sophos Endpoint.
Workspace Protection simplifies security by consolidating multiple capabilities into a single integrated solution, reducing operational overhead. It provides better visibility and control over applications, user activity, and data usage. By embedding controls directly into the workspace, it avoids complex infrastructure while maintaining strong security outcomes. Ultimately, organisations gain effective protection with a simpler deployment model and improved user experience.

Workspace Protection

Easy, affordable protection for your apps, data, and workers – everywhere

How people work has changed

Protect your apps

Protect your data

Protect your workers

Protect your guests

What Sophos Workspace Protection can do for you:

Sophos Workspace Protection outcomes:

Eliminate shadow IT

Enable generative AI adoption

Protect workers on the web

Prevent costly data mistakes

Protect your apps

Secure guest access

Extend Synchronized Security

Protect against breaches

Enhance your email security

Easy, affordable protection for remote and hybrid workers

Protected Browser

Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

DNS Protection

Email Monitoring System

Sophos Fusion

Unify and Extend your Firewall and Endpoint Protection

Firewalls protect your network

Endpoints protect your devices

Workspace protects everything else

Affordable and easy

Cybersecurity for all your needs

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Endpoint

Sophos Next-Gen Firewall

Frequently asked questions

What is Sophos Workspace Protection?

How is Sophos Workspace Protection different from traditional SASE or SSE solutions?

What components are included in the solution?

How does the Protected Browser improve security?

What types of use cases does Workspace Protection address?

How does Workspace Protection secure remote and hybrid workers?

How is Sophos Workspace Protection licensed?

What are the key business benefits for organisations?

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Sophos News

Sophos Workspace Protection outcomes:

Eliminate shadow IT

Enable generative AI adoption

Protect workers on the web

Prevent costly data mistakes

Protect your apps

Secure guest access

Extend Synchronized Security

Protect against breaches

Enhance your email security

Sophos Fusion

Unify and Extend your Firewall and Endpoint Protection

Firewalls protect your network

Endpoints protect your devices

Workspace protects everything else

Frequently asked questions

What is Sophos Workspace Protection?

How is Sophos Workspace Protection different from traditional SASE or SSE solutions?

What components are included in the solution?

How does the Protected Browser improve security?

What types of use cases does Workspace Protection address?

How does Workspace Protection secure remote and hybrid workers?

How is Sophos Workspace Protection licensed?

What are the key business benefits for organisations?

Downloads

Videos

Sophos News

Easy, affordable protection for remote and hybrid workers

Protected Browser

Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

DNS Protection

Email Monitoring System

Affordable and easy

Cybersecurity for all your needs

Sophos Managed Detection and Response