The AI era is here. Now comes the hard part: how do you see, control, and secure its usage?

Employees are using AI tools faster than anyone can track them. Source code, customer records, and financial data flow into apps no one approved. Agents and embedded AI features act without oversight. Security teams frequently cannot see what AI is in use, let alone control how it behaves or protect the data moving through it.

The numbers make the gap clear:

• 75% of employees use AI tools not sanctioned by IT.¹
• 82% of organizations discovered at least one AI agent or workflow they did not previously know about.²
• 90% of IT leaders are concerned about shadow AI from a privacy and security standpoint.³

This is not a future problem. It is happening right now, in every kind of organization, whether they have a full security operations center or no dedicated security staff at all.

Introducing Sophos AI Defense

Sophos AI Defense brings AI out of the shadows, allowing you to see, control, and secure how AI is used across your environment. It discovers AI activity, including shadow AI, assesses which activity introduces real risk, enforces policy at the moments that matter, and feeds AI-related signals into the security workflows your team already trusts.

Powered by Sophos Fusion, Sophos AI Defense delivers practical AI security you can adopt today, without new platforms, added tooling, or a dedicated AI security team.

Built for how organizations really use AI

Most AI security tools are built to secure models, pipelines, or future-state platforms. Sophos AI Defense focuses on the risk you face right now: unmanaged usage, blind spots, and sensitive data leaving through everyday AI tools.

Sophos AI Defense enables you to discover AI activity across your environment, assess what introduces real risk, enforce AI use at scale, and respond to threats before impact escalates.

• Discover. Reveal every AI agent, tool, and activity across your environment, including shadow AI and autonomous agents, so nothing runs beyond your view.
• Assess. Understand which activity actually introduces risk by weighing identity, permissions, geography, data access, and behavior in context, not in isolation.
• Enforce. Apply scalable guardrails that keep AI use aligned with policy and regulation, including controls on prompts and agent behavior, without slowing people down.
• Respond. Feed AI activity into your detection and response workflows as a first-class security signal, using the same playbooks, tools, and escalation paths you rely on today.

Powered by Sophos Fusion

Sophos AI Defense is part of Sophos Fusion, the AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System that unifies Sophos technology into a coordinated, adaptive defense. Rather than adding another standalone product, Sophos AI Defense extends the protection you already have across endpoint, network, identity, and browser, and applies it to the fast-emerging risk of unmanaged AI use.

It is available as an add-on for Sophos EDR, Sophos XDR, and Sophos MDR customers on Sophos Fusion.

Bring AI out of the shadows

AI is already part of how your organization works. Sophos AI Defense helps you adopt and use it with confidence, turning AI from an unmanaged liability into a visible, controllable, and secure part of your environment.

Speak to an expert today or visit sophos.com/ai-defense to learn more.

¹Microsoft Work Trend Index Annual Report, 2025

² CSA, "The Shadow AI Agent Problem in Enterprise Environments," 2025

³ Komprise IT Survey: AI, Data & Enterprise Risk.