Prevent Breaches, Ransomware, and Data Loss with Sophos Endpoint
The Industry's Most Sophisticated Endpoint Security Solution
Sophos Intercept X delivers unparalleled protection, stopping advanced attacks before they impact your systems. Powerful EDR and XDR tools let your organization hunt for, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity and indicators of attack.
Sophisticated technologies block the broadest range of attacks.

Easy to deploy and identify drifts in security posture, with strong protection enabled by default.

Top-rated protection with industry-leading results in third-party testing.

Prevention-First Approach
Sophos Intercept X takes a comprehensive approach to endpoint protection without relying on one security technique. Web, application, and peripheral controls reduce your attack surface and block common attack vectors. AI, behavioral analysis, anti-ransomware, anti-exploitation, and other state-of-the-art technologies stop threats fast before they escalate. This means resource-stretched IT teams have fewer incidents to investigate and resolve.
Anti-Ransomware
Intercept X includes CryptoGuard advanced anti-ransomware technology that stops new variants and never-before-seen ransomware. CryptoGuard inspects the contents of files to detect encryption and ransomware running on your network. Files encrypted by ransomware will automatically roll back to a safe state, irrespective of size or file type, minimizing the impact on business productivity.
Anti-Exploitation
Straight out of the box, Intercept X builds on the basic protection available in Microsoft Windows, adding no fewer than 60 proprietary, pre-configured, and tuned exploit mitigations. Intercept X protects against fileless attacks and zero-day exploits by stopping the techniques used throughout the attack chain.
Context-Sensitive Defenses
Industry-first dynamic defenses automate protection that adapts in response to active adversaries and hands-on-keyboard attacks.
Adaptive Attack Protection
Adaptive Attack Protection dynamically enables heightened defenses on an endpoint when a "hands-on-keyboard" attack is detected. This prevents an attacker from taking further actions by minimizing the attack surface and disrupting and containing the attack, buying valuable time to respond.
Critical Attack Warning
A Critical Attack Warning alerts you if adversary activity is detected across multiple endpoints or servers. It alerts all administrators in Sophos Central, informing you of the situation and providing attack details. You can respond using Sophos XDR, seek assistance from your partner, or ask the Sophos Incident Response team for help.
Easy to Set Up and Manage
Sophos Central is a cloud-based platform for managing your Sophos products. Our recommended protection technologies are enabled by default, so you immediately have the strongest protection settings with no tuning required. Granular control is also available.
Account Health Check
Poorly configured policy settings, exclusions, and other factors can compromise your security posture. The Account Health Check identifies security posture drift and high-risk misconfigurations, enabling administrators to remediate issues with one click.
Protect All Of Your Endpoints
Get complete protection for all of your endpoints. Works across all of your desktops, laptops, servers, tablets, and mobile devices. Works across all major operating systems.
Detection and Response
Endpoint Detection and Response
Powerful EDR functionality enables you to hunt for, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity across your endpoints and servers.
Endpoint Detection and Response
Sophos integrates powerful EDR with the robust prevention-first approach of Intercept X. Blocking more threats up front means there is less to investigate later. Detections are prioritized with AI-driven analysis, allowing you to see where to focus your valuable time. Remotely access devices to further investigate, install and uninstall software, or remediate any issues. Compared to other EDR tools, it adds expertise, not headcount, by replicating the skills of hard-to-find analysts.
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Extended Detection and Response
Powerful XDR functionality enables you to hunt for, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity across Sophos and third-party security controls.
Extended Detection and Response
Intercept X Advanced with XDR is the industry's only security operations platform that brings together native endpoint, server, firewall, email, cloud security, and third-party security controls. Threat hunt across the Sophos Data Lake or pivot to a device for real-time-state and up to 90 days of historical data. Get a holistic view of your organization's environment enriched with Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence for threat detection, investigation, and response designed for dedicated SOC teams and IT admins.
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Managed Detection and Response
Customers without the resources to manage 24/7 threat detection and response in house can use Sophos' MDR service delivered by an elite team of experienced threat hunters and incident responders.
Managed Detection and Response
Sophos MDR is a fully managed threat hunting, detection, and incident response service that integrates with Sophos and third-party security controls, providing a dedicated 24/7 security team to detect and neutralize the most sophisticated and complex threats.
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Additional Protection Layers
Threat Exposure Reduction
Intercept X provides web protection and filtering and application and peripheral control, reducing your attack surface and blocking common attack vectors.
Web Protection
Intercept X blocks access to phishing and malicious sites by analyzing files, web pages, and IP addresses. It is powered by threat intelligence from SophosLabs and real-time intelligence from the Sophos MDR team.
Synchronized Security
Intercept X shares status and health information with Sophos Firewall, Sophos ZTNA, and other products to provide additional visibility into threats and application usage and isolate compromised devices automatically.
ZTNA
Securely connect your users to your applications with the ultimate VPN replacement. Sophos ZTNA is the only zero trust network access solution tightly integrated with next-gen endpoint protection, XDR, and MDR.
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Prevent Breaches, Ransomware, and Data Loss with Sophos Endpoint
The Industry's Most Sophisticated Endpoint Security Solution
Sophos Intercept X delivers unparalleled protection against advanced attacks. It employs an extensive suite of sophisticated technologies to stop the broadest range of threats before they impact your systems. Powerful EDR and XDR tools enable your organization to hunt for, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity and indicators of attack.
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Intercept X Endpoint Features
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Automatically detect and prioritize potential threats and quickly see where to focus attention and know which machines may be impacted
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Sophos Intercept X Advanced with XDR integrates powerful endpoint detection and response (EDR) with the industry’s top-rated endpoint protection. Built for both IT security operations and threat hunting, Intercept X detects and investigates suspicious activity with AI-driven analysis. Unlike other EDR tools, it adds expertise, not headcount by replicating the skills of hard-to-find analysts.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Go beyond the endpoint by incorporating cross-product data sources for even more visibility
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

Sophos Intercept X Advanced with XDR is the industry’s only XDR solution that synchronizes native endpoint, server, firewall, email, cloud and O365 security. Get a holistic view of your organization’s environment with the richest data set and deep analysis for threat detection, investigation and response for both dedicated SOC teams and IT admins.
Anti-Ransomware
Ransomware file protection, automatic file recovery, and behavioral analysis to stop ransomware and boot record attacks
Anti-Ransomware

Today’s ransomware attacks often combine multiple advanced techniques with real-time hacking. To minimize your risk of falling victim you need advanced protection that monitors and secures the whole attack chain. Sophos Intercept X gives you advanced protection technologies that disrupt the whole attack chain including deep learning that predictively prevents attacks and CryptoGuard which rolls back the unauthorized encryption of files in seconds.
Deep Learning Technology
Artificial intelligence built into Intercept X that detects both known and unknown malware without relying on signatures
Deep Learning Technology

By integrating deep learning, an advanced form of machine learning, Intercept X is changing endpoint security from a reactive to a predictive approach to protect against both known and never-seen-before threats. While many products claim to use machine learning, not all machine learning is created equally. Deep learning has consistently outperformed other machine learning models for malware detection.
Exploit Prevention
Deny attackers by blocking the exploits and techniques used to distribute malware, steal credentials, and escape detection
Exploit Prevention

Exploit prevention stops the techniques used in file-less, malware-less, and exploit-based attacks. While there are millions of pieces of malware in existence, and thousands of software vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited, there are only handful of exploit techniques attackers rely on as part of the attack chain – and by taking away the key tools hackers love to use, Intercept X stops zero-day attacks before they can get started.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Elite team of MDR threat hunters and response experts who take targeted actions on your behalf to neutralize even the most sophisticated threats
Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response capabilities delivered by an expert team as a fully-managed service. Sophos MDR fuses machine learning technology and expert analysis for improved threat hunting and detection, deeper investigation of alerts, and targeted actions to eliminate threats with speed and precision. Unlike other services, the Sophos MDR team goes beyond simply notifying you of attacks or suspicious behaviors, and takes targeted actions on your behalf to neutralize even the most sophisticated and complex threats.
Active Adversary Mitigations
Active adversary mitigation prevents persistence on machines, credential theft protection, and malicious traffic detection
Active Adversary Mitigations

Intercept X utilizes a range of techniques, including credential theft prevention, code cave utilization detection, and APC protection that attackers use to gain a presence and remain undetected on victim networks. As attackers have increasingly focused on techniques beyond malware in order to move around systems and networks as a legitimate user, Intercept X detects and prevents this behavior in order to prevent attackers from completing their mission.
Central Management
Manage your endpoint protection, EDR, XDR and other Sophos solutions from a unified console
Central Management

Sophos Central is the cloud-based management platform for all Sophos solutions. You can investigate potential threats, create and deploy policies, manage your estate, see what is installed where and more, all from the same unified console.
Zero Trust Network Access
Integrated ZTNA for remote workers offering a single-agent, single console secure application access solution
Zero Trust Network Access

The only next-gen endpoint protection that includes a fully integrated Zero Trust Network Access solution to enable your remote users to securely access the applications they need without having to use vulnerable old VPN clients. You get a single agent deployment and reduced footprint on your end-user devices, with a single cloud management console, all from a single vendor.
Intercept X Advanced
Best endpoint protection
per user/per year
Ransomware protection, deep learning malware detection, anti-exploit and file-less attack prevention.
Intercept X Advanced with XDR
Best endpoint protection + EDR + XDR
per user/per year
All the powerful features found in Intercept X Advanced, plus industry-leading endpoint and extended detection and response (XDR).
Sophos Managed Detection and Response
24/7 threat response
per user/per year
All the powerful features found in Intercept X Advanced with XDR, plus 24/7 expert threat hunting and remediation.
Pricing example based on annual MSRP cost for 500-999 users, 36-month contract, and for MTR Standard in North America.
Education and Government pricing is available. Contact us for a custom quote.
Endpoint Protection Buyer's Guide
As cyber threats become more complex, the pressure to find the right endpoint solution has increased. However, the endpoint security market has become saturated with so many different solutions and unsubstantiated marketing claims that making an informed decision for your organization is becoming increasingly difficult.
#1 Rated Protection
In independent third-party testing Sophos consistently blocks more malware and exploits than competing solutions. But don’t take our word for it.
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Harness the Power of a Deep Learning Neural Network
Achieve unmatched endpoint threat prevention. Intercept X uses deep learning, an advanced form of machine learning to detect both known and unknown malware without relying on signatures.
Deep learning makes Intercept X smarter, more scalable, and more effective against never-seen-before threats. Intercept X leverages deep learning to outperform endpoint security solutions that use traditional machine learning or signature-based detection alone.
Anti-Ransomware
Intercept X includes CryptoGuard advanced anti-ransomware technology that stops new variants and never-before-seen ransomware. CryptoGuard inspects the contents of files to detect encryption and ransomware running on your network. Files encrypted by ransomware will automatically roll back to a safe state, irrespective of size or file type, minimizing the impact on business productivity.
Intelligent Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
The first EDR designed for security analysts and IT administrators
Intercept X Advanced with EDR allows you to ask any question about what has happened in the past, and what is happening now on your endpoints. Hunt threats to detect active adversaries, or leverage for IT operations to maintain IT security hygiene. When an issue is found remotely respond with precision. By starting with the strongest protection, Intercept X stops breaches before they start. It cuts down the number of items to investigate and saves you time.
- The strongest protection combined with powerful EDR
- Add expertise, not headcount
- Built for IT operations and threat hunting
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Intercept X Advanced with XDR is the industry’s only XDR solution that synchronizes native endpoint, server, firewall, email, cloud and O365 security. Get a holistic view of your organization’s environment with the richest data set and deep analysis for threat detection, investigation and response for both dedicated SOC teams and IT admins.
- Cross reference indicators of comprise from multiple data sources to quickly identify, pinpoint and neutralize a threat
- Use ATP and IPS events from the firewall to investigate suspect hosts and identify unprotected devices across your estate
- Understand office network issues and which application is causing them
- Identify unmanaged, guest and IoT devices across your organization’s environment
Managed Detection and Response
- Threat Hunting - Proactive 24/7 hunting by our elite team of threat analysts. Determine the potential impact and context of threats to your business.
- Response - Initiates actions to remotely disrupt, contain, and neutralize threats on your behalf to stop even the most sophisticated threats
- Continuous Improvement - Get actionable advice for addressing the root cause of recurring incidents to stop them for occurring again
Protect All Of Your Endpoints
Get complete protection for all your endpoints. Works across all your desktops, laptops, servers, tablets, and mobile devices. Works across all major operating systems.
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Cloud-Based Endpoint Protection
Enhance your defenses and simplify management with cloud-based endpoint protection. Intercept X’s endpoint security integrates with Sophos Central so you can access and manage your endpoint security wherever you are, any time. No need to spend more on infrastructure and maintain on-premises servers. Switch to an endpoint security cloud solution for smarter, faster protection.
Synchronize Your Firewall, ZTNA, and Endpoint Security
Strengthen your defenses with solutions that talk to each other. Synchronized Security enables your endpoints and firewall to share real-time intelligence. You’ll get better protection against advanced threats and spend less time responding to incidents.
- Automatically isolate infected computers.
- Instantly clean up malware.
- Get 100% visibility of all apps on your network.

Uniquely Integrated
Next-Gen Endpoint and ZTNA
Sophos Intercept X is the only true next-gen zero-trust endpoint solution with integrated Zero-Trust Network Access
End-to-end Protection for Remote Workers
ZTNA is the ultimate VPN replacement. It enables you to dramatically improve application access for remote workers, making it more reliable and transparent, while also radically improving your application security, protecting it from breaches and ransomware attacks.
Prevent Unhealthy Devices Accessing Your Network
Sophos Intercept X and ZTNA utilize Synchronized Security to share status and health information to automatically prevent compromised hosts from connecting to networked resources preventing threats from moving laterally and getting a foothold on your network.
Single Agent, Single Console, Single Vendor
No other cybersecurity vendor offers a world-class next gen endpoint product with integrated ZTNA. They deploy together as a single client agent for reduced footprint and are both managed from a single cloud-console - Sophos Central. It’s a winning combination you won’t find anywhere else.
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