Cybersecurity investment is increasing. So are incidents, compliance pressures, and demands for accountability. Organizations have more security data than ever before, yet many still struggle to answer fundamental questions: are we secure, are we improving, where should we invest next, and can we prove it?

For some, the problem is a lack of strategic security leadership. For others, it's the challenge of stitching together data from across a fragmented security program. For MSPs as well, there is the challenge of delivering cybersecurity leadership and compliance guidance in a way that is standardized, scalable, and commercially viable.

That's why we're excited to introduce Sophos CISO Advantage, a new approach to Cyber Program Management that helps organizations and MSPs measure, manage, improve, and communicate cybersecurity outcomes.

Introducing Sophos CISO Advantage

Sophos CISO Advantage is an assessment-led entry point into Cyber Program Management, enabling you to take control of security outcomes by offering visibility and insight into your or your customers’ environments. 

It helps organizations understand risk, prioritize what matters most, and show measurable improvements in their security posture. Assumptions can be replaced with validated, framework-mapped evidence of whether controls are working, and evidence that is defensible to boards, auditors, and insurers. By translating complex assessment data into business language, Sophos CISO Advantage ultimately bridges the gap between IT and the boardroom, enabling leadership to make informed cybersecurity investment decisions.Sophos CISO Advantage is delivered through Sophos Fusion, our AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System. This gives organizations all the benefits of a cyber defense system that sees everything, connects everything, and enables your defenses to respond as one.

How Sophos CISO Advantage works

For CISOs and security leaders

We developed Sophos CISO Advantage with a challenge in mind that we've repeatedly heard from security leaders: despite having more tools, data, and reporting than ever before, it remains difficult to demonstrate whether your security program is delivering value. Boardroom trust is harder to capture, adding tensions.

Sophos CISO Advantage helps you consolidate information from across your cybersecurity program into a single framework for measuring and improving performance. It removes the need to spend hours gathering evidence, preparing reports, and translating technical findings into business outcomes. You gain a structured way to assess your environment, identify gaps, prioritize investments, and demonstrate measurable progress over time.

The result is greater visibility into the effectiveness of your security program and a clearer way to communicate risk, priorities, and outcomes to executive stakeholders.

For MSPs and service providers

MSPs are more than a beneficiary of Sophos CISO Advantage. They are one of the primary reasons we built it. Many are already delivering the core elements of Cyber Program Management: answering customer questions about risk, supporting compliance initiatives, providing strategic guidance, and helping justify security investments. The problem is that much of this work is delivered informally, making it difficult to scale and monetize. 

As customers increasingly look to their provider for strategic security leadership, MSPs face a unique opportunity to evolve. Now, they can move beyond administering security tools and operations towards delivering a complete Cyber Program Management program. Sophos CISO Advantage provides the framework to make that possible in a repeatable, scalable, and commercially successful way. It transforms advisory work that is often delivered as added value into a structured, AI-powered service that creates measurable outcomes for customers and recurring revenue for their own business.

Key features available in Sophos CISO Advantage v1

The initial release of Sophos CISO Advantage is scheduled for October 2026 and focuses on helping organizations and MSPs establish a scalable approach to Cyber Program Management. 

Key capabilities include:

• Framework-aligned assessments to establish a cybersecurity baseline and measure maturity
• AI-powered scoring and guidance to accelerate analysis and highlight high-priority issues
• Gap analysis and prioritized recommendations that turn findings into actionable plans
• AI-generated action prioritization to help focus resources on the areas of greatest risk reduction
• Multi-audience reporting for technical teams, executives, and boards
• AI-generated report narratives that convert technical findings into business-focused insights
• Industry benchmarking to provide context for performance and maturity
• Evidence storage and framework mapping to support compliance, audit, and cyber insurance requirements

Together, these capabilities help organizations move from asking "Where are we?" to confidently answering "What should we do next?"

Looking ahead: Sophos CISO Advantage Plus

Sophos CISO Advantage v1 establishes the foundation for Cyber Program Management. In December, Sophos plans to introduce additional capabilities through Sophos CISO Advantage Plus, helping organizations evolve from periodic assessment and planning toward a more continuous model of cyber leadership. Future enhancements will focus on ongoing control effectiveness, continuous monitoring, governance workflows, and deeper strategic engagement. 

What to do next

For CISOs and security leaders

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 here.

We'll be sharing more information and helping you understand the problems Sophos CISO Advantage solves through upcoming webinars later this year. Stay tuned for more.

For MSPs and Partners

Visit the Partner Portal to access launch resources, positioning guidance, and enablement materials designed to help you introduce Sophos CISO Advantage to customers and build new Cyber Program Management service offerings.

The cybersecurity conversation has shifted from controls to outcomes, from activity to performance, and from security operations to cyber leadership. Sophos CISO Advantage is designed to help both CISOs and MSPs lead that shift.