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We’re proud to announce that Sophos has won three awards at the SE Labs Awards 2026: Enterprise Endpoint (Windows), Small Business Endpoint (Windows), and Small Business Security Development.
These recognitions are testimony to Sophos Endpoint’s ability to stop advanced persistent attacks (APTs) in enterprise environments while delivering strong, easy-to-manage, out-of-the-box security for small and mid-sized organizations. The same prevention-first defense stops AI-generated zero-days for global businesses and 10-person companies alike.
The SE Labs Awards are based on a rigorous combination of continuous public testing, private assessments, and feedback from corporate customers, reflecting how effectively solutions perform in real-world attack scenarios. Winning across both enterprise and small business categories in the same year underscores Sophos' leadership at every tier of the market.
“As the threat landscape escalates as attackers adopt AI to scale their operations and trade craft, it’s never been more important for the industry to have independent verification of security effectiveness,” said Simon Reed, Chief Security Officer at Sophos. “As we have seen very recently as AI advances at an ever-increasing rate, the ability of attackers to weaponize vulnerabilities has never been greater. AI enables attackers to find vulnerabilities and generate working exploits faster than patch cycles can close them. It is critically important that an endpoint security product proactively blocks attacks using class-based approaches as the mean overall attack duration continues to trend from weeks and days to minutes and seconds. True defense is resilient and proactive.”Sophos Endpoint: AI-era attacks stop here
Sophos Endpoint is built for the AI era. It matches AI-era attack velocity, automatically blocking exploits, ransomware, and attacker techniques by default with zero tuning, stopping threats launched by either humans or Agentic AI tools.
Deep learning prevention, exploit mitigation, and CryptoGuard ransomware rollback combine in one lightweight agent that covers Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Sophos Endpoint is also an entry point into the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System, the first unified architecture where every control point, agentic AI, and human experts operate as one, so attacks are stopped at machine speed, across every layer, delivering resilience against AI-era threats.
For more information about Sophos Endpoint, visit sophos.com/endpoint
Independent recognition across protection, detection, and response
Sophos’ recognition in the SE Labs Awards is part of a broader pattern of industry validation throughout endpoint protection, extended detection and response (XDR), managed detection and response (MDR), and firewall solutions:
- Sophos is named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection. This marks the 17th consecutive report in which Sophos has been recognized as a Leader in this category.
- Sophos is named a 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice in the 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Report for Endpoint Protection
- Sophos is named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Report for Extended Detection and Response
- Sophos is ranked as the #1 Overall solution in Endpoint Protection (EPP), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and Firewall Software in the G2 Spring 2026 Grid® Reports
- Sophos achieves 100% detection coverage in the MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise 2025 Evaluation
Together, these recognitions reinforce what Sophos is focused on delivering: security that works as a system, adapts with the threat landscape, and helps organizations strengthen their defenses without adding unnecessary complexity.
Why independent testing matters
Reputable third-party testing helps organizations make informed decisions about their security investments. But as attacks grow in volume and complexity, results only mean something when the tests reflect the real world.
Now in its eighth year, the SE Labs Awards recognize the vendors delivering outstanding performance across enterprise, small business, and consumer markets, the companies setting the standard for protection, detection, and cyber resilience. Sophos has participated in these evaluations for many years, consistently earning top scores in endpoint testing for both enterprise and small business.
“The SE Labs Awards recognises the vendors that are making a real difference in keeping systems secure,” said Simon Edwards, Founder and CEO of SE Labs. “Winning an award is a significant achievement. It reflects not only strong product performance in our tests but also the commitment of the teams behind the technology. Congratulations to Sophos on its success.”
For more on this year’s SE Labs Awards, read the SE Labs announcement and the full list of winners.