We’re excited to announce another update to Sophos DNS Protection, helping you monitor and control use of Generative AI sites and services within your network.

A new Generative AI category has been added to the already-extensive list of categories used in web and domain policies across our product range. With this update, the category is available for use in DNS Protection policies.

For those of you who are already using Sophos DNS Protection, the new category is available right away. Because most of the sites covered by the new category were previously in the Information Technology category, your policies will be updated so that the action for the new Generative AI category is the same as that for Information Technology. But you can go straight in there and change it if you want!

You’ll also see the Generative AI category start to appear in DNS Protection reports and in the traffic logs that XDR and MDR customers can access via LiveDiscover queries. So you’ll be able to quickly see whether Generative AI tools are in use on your networks.

Customers with Workspace Protection who have deployed the Endpoint DNS Protection feature will also be able to pinpoint the users and devices where Generative AI domains are in use.

Learn more about Sophos DNS Protection and how you can add it easily to your Sophos Firewall with the Xstream Protection Bundle or devices with Sophos Workspace Protection.