Sophos CISO Advantage is now generally available

Sophos CISO Advantage is now generally available to the market, giving CISOs and security teams without a CISO the solution they need to build, manage, and improve a compliance-driven cybersecurity program. 

In July, we introduced Sophos CISO Advantage, explaining how it enables organizations and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to understand cyber risk, prioritize what matters most, and demonstrate measurable improvement over time. From today, they can start doing exactly that.

What is Sophos CISO Advantage?

Organizations have heavily invested in threat protection, but many still cannot say whether it is working, where their biggest risks are, or what to address next. 

Part of the challenge is that few have the strategic in-house resources they need to do so. Only around 1 in 10,000 organizations has a dedicated CISO, leaving the vast majority without the strategic oversight needed to measure, improve, and demonstrate their cybersecurity posture. 79% of organizations are also struggling to keep pace with changing compliance requirements, with IT and security teams spending 39% of their time on compliance-related activities.

Sophos CISO Advantage helps solve these challenges. It gives organizations validated, framework-mapped evidence of whether their controls are working, a prioritized, budget-aligned roadmap for what to fix first, and board-ready reporting that translates security data into business insight. The result is evidence that holds up with a board, an auditor, or an insurer.

Sophos CISO Advantage is delivered through Sophos Fusion, the industry’s most complete cyber defense system. Enabled by the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System architecture and 500+ Sophos and third-party integrations, it sees everything, connects everything, and enables your defenses to respond as one. Powered by agentic AI, with human judgment, Sophos Fusion protects organizations from AI-enabled threats that move at AI speed. 

Who is Sophos CISO Advantage for?

IT stakeholders, security leaders, and security teams 

Sophos CISO Advantage helps organizations understand and manage cyber risk, while giving them the structure to continuously track their cybersecurity posture, streamline compliance, and align performance with future decision making. 

For teams without a dedicated CISO, it provides a central source of truth, helping them keep pace with changing requirements and understand what to address next. 

For organizations with a CISO, it reduces the tactical burden of gathering data, interpreting findings, and producing reports, enabling those leaders to focus on what they were hired to do — guiding the organization’s security strategy.

For all organizations, Sophos CISO Advantage helps them build and lead a strategic, measurable cybersecurity and compliance program by:

• Accelerating assessments and uncovering deeper insights with AI-enabled workflows that reduce manual effort and give teams their time back
• Delivering the right information to every stakeholder with tailored reporting for technical teams, executives, and the board
• Benchmarking security performance and maturity against industry peers to provide context and strategic direction
• Turning findings into action with gap analysis and prioritized recommendations that guide investment and resource allocation

Together, these capabilities move organizations from asking, “Where are we?” to having a clear answer: “This is what we should do next.”

MSPs and service providers

For MSPs and other channel partners acting as CISO for their own customer base, Sophos CISO Advantage helps transform that role into a structured billable service so they can respond to increasing demand for strategy and continuous compliance while deepening customer relationships. Find out more here.

Availability

Sophos CISO Advantage is available as an annual term license for customers, or a monthly subscription through Sophos MSP Flex.

Next year, Sophos CISO Advantage Plus will extend Sophos CISO Advantage into continuous assurance, turning assessments into a live measurement of control effectiveness and cyber risk. It will also add governance capabilities and automated compliance for organizations with more complex requirements.

Learn more

IT stakeholders, security leaders, and security teams

For more information on how to adopt Sophos CISO Advantage, please speak to your account manager or contact us here. You can also find out more through the Sophos website.

MSPs and service providers

Visit the Partner Portal (login required) to access launch resources and enablement materials designed to help you introduce Sophos CISO Advantage to customers and build new advisory service offerings. You can also contact us to become a Sophos partner.