DNS Protection update for GenAI

We’re excited to announce another update to Sophos DNS Protection, helping you and your customers monitor and control use of Generative AI sites and services within the 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 customers 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, policies will be updated so that the action for the new Generative AI category is the same as that for Information Technology. But any admin can go straight in there and change it anytime.

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 customers will be able to quickly see whether Generative AI tools are in use on their 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 Sophos Firewall with the Xstream Protection Bundle or devices with Sophos Workspace Protection.