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Pre-built automation playbooks accelerate threat response, with flexibility to create more as needed.
The relative ease of use of XDR to discover and triage common threats reduces the need for internal skill sets and could reduce staffing levels needed to operate a more complex solution. "
Gartner Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2025
AI-driven attacks are faster, broader, and harder to detect.
Most environments are built on disconnected tools, each with separate data, alerts, and workflows. At the same time, AI is embedded across email, identity, cloud, and SaaS applications, expanding the attack surface and accelerating adversary behavior. This creates blind spots between systems — exactly where modern attackers thrive.
The adversary got an AI upgrade
Fragmentation creates security blind spots
More alerts, faster attacks — same team headcount
As attacks accelerate, analysts are overwhelmed by more alerts and duplicated effort across security and compliance tools. This creates increasing pressure on already stretched teams, forcing them to work harder to keep up.
WHAT SOPHOS DELIVERS
Sophos XDR Powered by Secureworks
As part of the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System, “Sophos XDR Powered by Secureworks” brings together Secureworks’ Taegis detection and response capabilities, Counter Threat Unit (CTU) intelligence, and deep security operations expertise within Sophos XDR. Following Sophos’ acquisition of Secureworks in 2025, this combination unites Sophos’ AI-driven security and industry-leading threat intelligence with advanced XDR to deliver an open, unified architecture with broad integrations and adaptive protection, detection, and response.
AI-augmented Security Analyst workflow
AI bends the learning curve so every analyst operates with confidence, faster.
- Detect and correlate: AI connects signals across your environment, turning raw events into prioritized, understandable threats.
- Triage and prioritize: AI eliminates manual triage, grouping related activity into clear cases so analysts can focus on what matters.
- Investigate: AI assistants designed by Sophos MDR frontline experts turn complex security data into clear insights, all easily searchable in natural language — no SQL required.
- Respond and resolve: AI accelerates response with guided actions, context-aware automation, and integrated SOAR to deliver faster resolution without sacrificing control.
BRING YOUR OWN STACK
Vendor-agnostic by design
Defend against attacks that move across networks without replacing your existing tools. Our unified system connects protection, detection, investigation, response, and data retention in your environment, enabling security teams to operate as one regardless of the technologies in place — including the most comprehensive Microsoft security integration on the market.
With vast, AI-assisted integrations, you can bring together telemetry from endpoint, identity, email, cloud, network, and business applications into a single view. Sophos Next-Gen SIEM extends this to integrate your unique, compliance-focused data.
Two‑way integrations and built‑in automation allow your team to take action directly within your existing tools, reducing friction and accelerating response.
The same system supports real-time operations and long-term data needs. Ingest data from any source and retain it over time, ensuring full context for investigations and reporting.
One system for security operations and compliance
Sophos XDR with Next-Gen SIEM unifies protection, detection, investigation, response, and historical context, bringing together real-time security operations and long-term data in one place.
The same system eliminates duplicated effort and disconnected workflows while allowing you to seamlessly ingest unique data and retain it for up to 10 years with simple, predictable pricing.
Built to learn and improve security over time
Sophos XDR with Next‑Gen SIEM is part of an AI-native system that continuously learns from real-world activity across 625,000+ customer environments. Insights from 380,000+ MDR investigations each year refine detections, AI models, and response logic, automatically applied in real time to strengthen protection across all customers.
24/7 fully managed threat response
Sophos MDR is the world's largest Agentic SOC, delivering fully managed, 24/7 detection and response across your entire environment. 52% of cases are resolved end-to-end by AI in just 89 seconds on average, while Sophos analysts supervise the AI, own every outcome, and focus on the threats that demand human expertise.
AI-native cloud security, from runtime to response
Unify cloud telemetry from hosts, containers, and cloud services into the same XDR detection and investigation workflow as your endpoint, network, and identity signals. One console. One investigation workflow. No blind spots. Full protection across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.
Stronger protection. Fewer alerts. Faster response.
Sophos Endpoint — included
Sophos XDR comes with Sophos Endpoint — a unified Endpoint Protection and EDR solution built to defeat AI attacks and reduce alert fatigue. It blocks the techniques at the heart of attacks, stopping threats launched by either humans or Agentic AI tools upfront.
- Anti-exploitation technology blocks the techniques attackers use, with 60+ proprietary mitigations enabled by default.
- Surfaces internal AI use and controls access to generative AI services to support secure AI adoption.
- CryptoGuard automatically detects and blocks ransomware encryption attempts, restoring impacted files where possible.
- Adaptive Attack Protection dynamically escalates defenses when hands‑on‑keyboard attacker behavior is detected.
- Critical Attack Warning alerts on coordinated adversary activity across multiple devices, not just isolated events.
Sophos Email Monitoring System — included
Sophos EMS seamlessly brings in email signals into Sophos XDR, detecting advanced threats that slip past traditional email security and enabling rapid response — without replacing your existing email tools.
- Monitoring that works alongside existing email security without impacting mail flow.
- Vendor-agnostic: Compatible with third‑party email security solutions.
- Identifies advanced phishing, BEC, and malicious emails that other solutions miss.
- Clawback capability for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace enables you to remove malicious messages after delivery.
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Sophos Managed Detection and Response
(MDR)
Fully managed, 24/7 detection and response for the agentic era. Run a world-class SOC without building one.
- Always-on, expert-led investigation and response
- AI speed, human judgment — 52% of MDR cases are resolved end-to-end by AI
- 89 seconds from initial alerts to automated response
- Proactive threat hunting
- The most robust MDR service for Microsoft environments
- Breach protection warranty
Sophos Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
Identify and respond to threats that bypass traditional identity security controls. Sophos ITDR continuously monitors your environment and delivers AI-driven risk insights.
- Uncover and prioritize identity security gaps fast
- 100% coverage of MITRE Credential Attack techniques
- 110+ continuous identity security posture checks
- A unified platform with automatic response actions
- Identify credentials exposed on the dark web
- AI-driven risk scoring to identify your highest-risk identities
Sophos Network Detection and Response
(NDR)
Detect suspicious behaviors, abnormal traffic flows, rogue assets, insider threats, zero-days, and unusual patterns that extend beyond firewalls and endpoints.
- Finds activity originating from unknown or unmanaged devices, rogue assets, and zero-day C2 servers.
- Inspects encrypted traffic flows without compromising PII
- Investigation Console allows you to gain insights into suspicious network activity and analyze or investigate anomalous patterns
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The #1-rated XDR solution in the G2 Summer 2026 Reports
A 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice vendor for Extended Detection and Response (XDR).
A Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software 2025.
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Frequently asked questions
Extended detection and response (XDR) is a cybersecurity approach that unifies detection, investigation, and response across multiple security layers including endpoint, identity, email, cloud, network, and third‑party tools in a single system. Sophos XDR includes built-in protection with Sophos Endpoint, Endpoint Detection and Response, and Email Monitoring System, correlates signals across your environment, applies AI‑driven analysis, and prioritizes real threats so security teams can detect and respond faster without switching tools or manually connecting the dots.
Next‑Gen SIEM is a modern approach to security information and event management that focuses on usable security outcomes, not just log storage. Sophos Next‑Gen SIEM extends Sophos XDR with long‑term retention and compliance‑focused data ingestion up to 10 years with predictable pricing based on users and servers. The same telemetry used for security investigations supports audits, reporting, and regulatory requirements without deploying a separate SIEM.
XDR is designed for real‑time security operations — detecting, investigating, and responding to threats across the environment. Traditional SIEMs are primarily focused on log aggregation and retention for investigations and compliance. Sophos XDR with Next‑Gen SIEM unifies them in one AI‑native system, so protection, detection, response, historical context, and compliance data work together instead of in parallel tools.
Managed detection and response (MDR) is an outsourced cybersecurity service that combines AI‑driven threat detection technology with a team of human security experts who monitor, investigate, and respond to threats on an organization’s behalf, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Unlike traditional security tools that generate alerts for an internal team to act on, MDR provides both the technology and the people — so threats are contained and eliminated without requiring organizations to hire, train, or retain their own security operations center (SOC) staff.
Sophos MDR is the world’s largest agentic SOC, built on the same AI‑Native Cybersecurity Defense System that powers Sophos XDR with Next‑Gen SIEM. Protection, detection, investigation, response, and long‑term data retention all operate within one unified platform, with AI handling detection and prioritization at machine speed while Sophos Analysts supervise the AI, govern its decisions, and retain full accountability for every outcome.
Sophos XDR has AI as part of its core architecture — not as a bolt‑on feature. AI correlates signals across all control points, reduces alert noise, prioritizes threats, and assists analysts throughout detection, investigation, and response. Agentic AI handles speed and scale, while humans remain in control of critical decisions, ensuring accurate, explainable outcomes.
Yes. Sophos XDR is vendor‑agnostic by design and includes over 500+ integrations across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, network, and business applications. Two‑way integrations allow analysts to take response actions directly in third‑party tools, while Sophos Next‑Gen SIEM enables seamless, AI-assisted ingestion of unique, compliance‑specific data from niche or legacy systems.
Sophos XDR reduces alert fatigue by stopping more threats upfront with built‑in prevention through Sophos Endpoint, EDR, and EMS all included, correlates related activity into high‑confidence cases, and uses AI to prioritize real risks. Instead of flooding analysts with isolated alerts, Sophos XDR surfaces contextualized cases with timelines, evidence, and recommended actions — so teams focus on what matters most.
Sophos XDR with Next‑Gen SIEM is designed for organizations that want modern, AI‑driven security operations without unnecessary complexity.
It supports in‑house security teams that want more control and visibility, organizations with compliance and retention requirements, and teams that want the option to upgrade to fully managed Sophos MDR when needed.