What is Sophos Central?

Sophos Central is how you experience the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System. It's where you manage your Sophos security. It brings every Sophos product, your detection and response work, and your reporting into a single cloud-based console, so you can see and control your protection from one place.

Is Sophos Central changing?

Yes. With the launch of the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System architecture, Sophos Central is becoming Sophos Fusion. This is an upgrade, not a retirement. Sophos Fusion is the evolution of the console already trusted by customers and partners, built on the new architecture - now even more powerful. Existing customers and partners will see Sophos Fusion appear in their console over time.

What can I manage in Sophos Central?

You can deploy and manage every Sophos product (including endpoint, firewall, email, server, mobile, and cloud), build dashboards and reports, set policy across your estate, and control administrator access with role-based permissions and multi-factor authentication.

Does Sophos Central cost extra?

No. Sophos Central is included automatically when you use any Sophos product. It is not a separate purchase or license. The more of the Sophos portfolio you use, the more you manage in Sophos Central.

Can I run detection and response in Sophos Central?

Yes. You can hunt for threats, investigate across products, and act on affected devices from Sophos Central. The depth available depends on the products and licenses you hold.

How do MSPs and MSSPs use Sophos Central?

Partners manage every customer environment from one console. Multi-tenant dashboards show activity across all customers at once, role-based access can be scoped per customer, and partners can add customers on demand, run white-space analysis across their base, and export client-ready reports.

Is my data secure in Sophos Central?

Sophos Central is cloud-native and built for availability, with data held in your chosen region and encrypted in transit and at rest. Administrator accounts are protected with multi-factor authentication and role-based access, and Sophos monitors the service continuously. See the Trust Center for full detail.

How does Sophos use AI to defend my business?

AI is built into your Sophos defenses, not added on top. It works across your security to detect and respond to threats at machine speed, handling the volume and velocity of AI-era attacks that manual effort cannot keep up with, while human experts stay accountable for the decisions that matter. This agentic AI with human judgment is part of the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System, the architecture beneath Sophos Central.

How does Sophos Central relate to the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System?

The Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System is the architecture that enables your defenses to work together as one. Sophos Central is how you experience it. The Sophos Central name is evolving to Sophos Fusion to reflect the enhanced offering.

Sophos Central

The Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System

Sophos Central is how you access and manage Sophos solutions. Sophos Central is evolving to Sophos Fusion, delivering an AI-era upgrade to the security system that defends 625,000+ organizations.

Deploy and manage Sophos solutions – the strongest first line of defense against AI-accelerated threats
Connect your defenses so they can work together – including 500+ open integrations
See and report on your security posture – providing unified visibility across your environment.

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Reduction in security management overhead

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Faster to identify incidents

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Reduction in security incidents requiring human intervention

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Sophos Central is evolving. Meet Sophos Fusion.

Sophos Central is becoming Sophos Fusion. Built on the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System architecture, it’s the evolution of the security solution you already know and trust. This is an upgrade designed for the AI era, delivering even more powerful protection. You will see the new name arrive gradually over the coming months, and you can keep working exactly as you do today.

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Your Challenges

AI era threats move faster than defenders can respond

AI is accelerating the speed, scale, and sophistication of attacks. A single attack now moves at machine speed and often crosses several layers at once. At the same time, the defenses meant to stop it are split across separate consoles that are hard to connect, so teams switch between systems and piece signals together by hand. Attacks are getting faster while defenses stay fragmented.

Attacks that outpace your team

AI lets attackers find weaknesses and strike at a speed and volume that manual response cannot match. Without a system to keep pace, your team is always a step behind, responding after the damage is done rather than getting ahead of it.

Gaps between your defenses

When tools are managed separately, policies drift apart, and misconfigurations and threats slip through unnoticed. Attackers live in the gaps between your tools.

Overhead that grows with you

Day-to-day administration and reporting for leadership, auditors, and insurers take up time that your team doesn’t have.

Introducing the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System.

Sophos Fusion

Sophos Fusion is built on the new Sophos Cyber Defense System architecture which enables all your security investments to work as one. Your control points, agentic AI, and human experts operate together rather than in isolation, sharing what they see and coordinating their response automatically. The result is AI-accelerated defenses that match the speed, scale, and sophistication of AI-era attacks, detecting and stopping threats across every layer rather than leaving each tool to act alone.

Sophos Fusion is how you experience the Sophos Cyber Defense System.

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FEATURES

Stronger defense, simpler security

Sophos Fusion enables you to protect your business against AI-era threats and provides one place to see, run, and control your security.

Stop threats that move at machine speed

AI-era attacks strike fast and cross every layer at once. From Sophos Fusion, your defenses meet them as one: protect, detect, investigate, and respond from a single place, with cross-product context already assembled for you. Native Sophos control points deliver the strongest defense against AI-era threats, coordinating automatically across every layer instead of leaving each tool to act alone.

Works with what you already own

Sophos Fusion connects more than 500 third-party tools, so your current and future security investments become part of one coordinated defense, without replacing what already works

Confidence you can prove

Know where your security stands at a glance, and show it to anyone who asks. Customizable dashboards give a clear view of alerts, devices, and users, and the reports your board, auditors, and insurers expect are a few clicks away.

Turn your tools into a strategy

Stop running tool by tool and start delivering a strategy. Sophos Fusion shows you where your gaps are, lets you set policy across your estate, and handles routine work automatically, so your team can focus on strategic improvements.

The right access for the right people

Keep control of who can do what, and reduce the risk of costly mistakes. Role-based access and multi-factor authentication give each administrator exactly the access they need, and no more, so the right people stay in control of your defenses.

Add protection, not complexity

As your needs grow, add protection without adding work. Every Sophos product you turn on is managed from Sophos Fusion, so expanding your defenses takes clicks, not new consoles.

The MSP accelerator for the AI era

The Sophos Cyber Defense System enables MSPs and MSSPs to provide the best possible defense against AI-era threats. Sophos Fusion makes that defense easy to deploy, manage, and report on across your entire customer base. Together, they enable you to grow your practice and elevate your customers’ defenses while reducing your management overhead. And with the full Sophos portfolio at your fingertips, including Sophos Endpoint, Sophos Firewall, and Sophos MDR, you can give customers the strongest first line of defense against AI-era attacks.

Built on a secure, resilient foundation

Sophos Fusion is cloud-native and built for availability. Your data is held in the region you choose, encrypted in transit and at rest. Multi-factor authentication and role-based access protect administrator accounts, and Sophos monitors the service continuously for attacks and ensures accessibility for the customers and partners who depend on it.

Speak to an expert

Tell us about your environment, and a Sophos expert will show you how Sophos Fusion brings your security into one place and the best place to start. Coordinated, automated response handles the routine, so your team can focus on what matters most.

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See how Sophos Fusion gives you a single place to protect, detect, investigate, and respond, with the context to act already assembled for you.
Start where it matters most
Our experts help you find the right entry point for your environment and a plan to grow your protection over time.
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Connect the Sophos and third-party tools you already run so they work as one, and protect the investments you've made.

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Frequently asked questions

Sophos Central is how you experience the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System. It's where you manage your Sophos security. It brings every Sophos product, your detection and response work, and your reporting into a single cloud-based console, so you can see and control your protection from one place.
Yes. With the launch of the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System architecture, Sophos Central is becoming Sophos Fusion. This is an upgrade, not a retirement. Sophos Fusion is the evolution of the console already trusted by customers and partners, built on the new architecture - now even more powerful. Existing customers and partners will see Sophos Fusion appear in their console over time.
You can deploy and manage every Sophos product (including endpoint, firewall, email, server, mobile, and cloud), build dashboards and reports, set policy across your estate, and control administrator access with role-based permissions and multi-factor authentication.
No. Sophos Central is included automatically when you use any Sophos product. It is not a separate purchase or license. The more of the Sophos portfolio you use, the more you manage in Sophos Central.
Yes. You can hunt for threats, investigate across products, and act on affected devices from Sophos Central. The depth available depends on the products and licenses you hold.
Partners manage every customer environment from one console. Multi-tenant dashboards show activity across all customers at once, role-based access can be scoped per customer, and partners can add customers on demand, run white-space analysis across their base, and export client-ready reports.
Sophos Central is cloud-native and built for availability, with data held in your chosen region and encrypted in transit and at rest. Administrator accounts are protected with multi-factor authentication and role-based access, and Sophos monitors the service continuously. See the Trust Center for full detail.
AI is built into your Sophos defenses, not added on top. It works across your security to detect and respond to threats at machine speed, handling the volume and velocity of AI-era attacks that manual effort cannot keep up with, while human experts stay accountable for the decisions that matter. This agentic AI with human judgment is part of the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System, the architecture beneath Sophos Central.
The Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System is the architecture that enables your defenses to work together as one. Sophos Central is how you experience it. The Sophos Central name is evolving to Sophos Fusion to reflect the enhanced offering.