What is Sophos Managed Risk?

Sophos Managed Risk is a vulnerability and attack surface management service powered by industry-leading Tenable technology. Delivered by Sophos’ threat exposure and remediation experts, it integrates advanced vulnerability management tools Sophos analysts use to identify high-priority cybersecurity vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors in your environment. This proactive approach helps prevent attacks before they disrupt your business operations.

What does "Powered by Tenable" mean?

Sophos Managed Risk is powered by Tenable, the industry leader in exposure management. The service leverages Tenable's market-leading products powered by Tenable research to provide attack surface discovery, vulnerability coverage, and expert-led prioritization of risks. This unique partnership brings together two highly respected cyber risk management market leaders to deliver superior security outcomes for organizations of any size and in any industry.

Why should I subscribe to Sophos Managed Risk?

The modern attack surface has expanded beyond traditional on-premises IT boundaries. Organizations frequently operate with unknown assets that are unpatched or under protected, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attackers. Delivered by Sophos experts, Sophos Managed Risk identifies high-priority cybersecurity vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors so action can be taken to prevent attacks before they disrupt your business. This service helps IT and security teams with limited resources focus on business enablement. Working in concert with Sophos MDR, it proactively scans assets for exploits and notifies you of high-risk zero-day vulnerabilities, strengthening your cyber risk management strategy.

Who should subscribe to Sophos Managed Risk?

Sophos Managed Risk is ideal for organizations of all sizes that need enhanced cybersecurity without the overhead of a large in-house security team. It is particularly beneficial for large enterprises needing scalable risk management solutions and for regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and legal sectors, which require strict compliance and robust vulnerability management systems.

What is included in Sophos Managed Risk?

Sophos Managed Risk is a fully managed service delivered by Sophos experts, offering comprehensive vulnerability management. It provides attack surface discovery, categorization and reporting, risk-based prioritization of vulnerabilities, proactive notification of critical exposures, and automated attack surface monitoring and vulnerability scans. You benefit from scheduled reviews with the Sophos Managed Risk team, and have a dedicated team of vulnerability experts on hand when you need them. Sophos Managed Risk collaborates with the Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service that protects you 24/7 from evolving cyberthreats.

What are the benefits of Sophos Managed Risk?

Sophos Managed Risk enables organizations to find and eliminate blind spots and stay ahead of potential attacks by clearly understanding and prioritizing the highest risk exposures, with expert guidance from Sophos’ dedicated team.

What are some common use cases for Sophos Managed Risk?

Common use cases for Sophos Managed Risk include attack surface visibility to mitigate cyber risk and prevent potential threats by knowing what you own. Continuous risk monitoring by the Sophos Managed Risk team extends your IT Security team with vulnerability experts that prioritize vulnerabilities on your behalf. This prioritization helps you understand your exposures and which vulnerabilities to fix first. When severe exposures are discovered that could lead to significant harm if exploited, Sophos Managed Risk proactively notifies you and provides remediation guidance.

How does Sophos Managed Risk use AI?

Vulnerability scan results include Tenable's AI-powered Vulnerability Priority Ratings (VPR). These ratings are included in Sophos Managed Risk vulnerability reports.

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Sophos Managed Risk

Reduce cybersecurity risk with proactive attack surface vulnerability management, delivered as a service.

70%

Of Sophos Managed Risk customers discover unknown exposures in their first service review

40%

Of organizations hit by ransomware fell victim due to an exposure they weren't aware of

Report: The State of Ransomware 2025

71%

Of threat cases use external remote services for initial access

2025 Sophos Active Adversary Report

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A Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Managed Detection and Response

A Leader for MDR in G2 Grid Reports

Strong results in MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations for Enterprise Products and Managed Services

A leader in the 2024 MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services

A Leader in the 2024 Frost Radar report for Global Managed Detection and Response

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YOUR CHALLENGES

Focus on the vulnerabilities that matter most to your business

The modern attack surface has expanded beyond traditional on-premises IT boundaries, with organizations frequently operating unknown assets that are unpatched or under protected, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attackers.

Continuous monitoring

Your in-house IT and security teams may lack the deep knowledge and experience of the exploitation landscape needed to fully understand the security posture of your attack surface.

Risk-based vulnerability prioritization

New vulnerabilities are discovered faster than you can fix them. Understanding which ones are relevant and in which order to patch them is a significant challenge.

Notification of high-risk exposures

Attackers look for weaknesses in your environment long before you know they’re there. Identifying high-risk exposures quickly is crucial.

FEATURES

Superior cybersecurity outcomes delivered as a service

Sophos Managed Risk—powered by Tenable®—identifies high-priority cybersecurity vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors in your environment so action can be taken to prevent attacks before they disrupt your business.

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Benefits

Attack surface visibility

Discover all of your internal and external assets in your environment against associated exposures that could be exploited by adversaries.

Risk-based vulnerability prioritization

Know what to patch first and why. Your defined critical assets and expert-led prioritization enables you to focus on the most impactful vulnerabilities first.

Dedicated team of vulnerability experts

Our experienced analysts extend your team and provide expert guidance and help set remediation priorities for your business.

Attack surface and vulnerability reporting

Detailed attack surface and vulnerability reports enable you to identify and understand your digital footprint and associated risks.

Proactive remediation guidance

When severe exposures are discovered that could lead to significant harm if exploited, Sophos Managed Risk proactively notifies you and provides remediation guidance.

Continuous monitoring

Regular automated scans enable you to keep pace with your ever-increasing attack surface. Sophos Managed Risk also performs scans on your behalf when new exploits are discovered and when the risk level of a known vulnerability changes.

A managed service by vulnerability experts

Free up resource-stretched IT and security teams to focus on business enablement. Sophos Managed Risk is a fully managed service delivered by a dedicated team of Sophos experts, including Tenable-certified vulnerability analysts.

Collaborates with Sophos MDR

Sophos Managed Risk works seamlessly with the Sophos MDR service. When severe exposures are discovered that could lead to significant harm, Sophos scans your assets for the possibility of an exploit and proactively notifies you.

Sophos Managed Risk is powered by Tenable, the industry leader in exposure management. The service leverages Tenable's market-leading products powered by Tenable research to provide superior attack surface discovery and vulnerability assessment for your internal and external assets.

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Sophos Fusion

Sophos Managed Risk is part of Sophos Fusion, the industry's most complete cyber defense system, engineered for a world where threats move at AI speed.

Sophos Managed Risk discovers and prioritizes exposures across your environment, helping you reduce risk with insights that strengthen coordinated protection across Sophos Fusion.

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Free up IT and security staff to focus on business enablement, and leverage superior security outcomes delivered as a service.

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24/7 threat detection and response
Expert-led threat hunting
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No big upfront infrastructure costs and no maintenance fees.

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Frequently asked questions

Sophos Managed Risk is a vulnerability and attack surface management service powered by industry-leading Tenable technology. Delivered by Sophos’ threat exposure and remediation experts, it integrates advanced vulnerability management tools Sophos analysts use to identify high-priority cybersecurity vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors in your environment. This proactive approach helps prevent attacks before they disrupt your business operations.
Sophos Managed Risk is powered by Tenable, the industry leader in exposure management. The service leverages Tenable's market-leading products powered by Tenable research to provide attack surface discovery, vulnerability coverage, and Expert-led prioritization of risks. This unique partnership brings together two highly respected cyber risk management market leaders to deliver superior security outcomes for organizations of any size and in any industry.
The modern attack surface has expanded beyond traditional on-premises IT boundaries. Organizations frequently operate with unknown assets that are unpatched or under protected, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attackers. Delivered by Sophos experts, Sophos Managed Risk identifies high-priority cybersecurity vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors to prevent disruptions. This service helps IT and security teams with limited resources focus on business enablement. Working in concert with Sophos MDR, it proactively scans assets for exploits and notifies you of high-risk zero-day vulnerabilities, strengthening your cyber risk management strategy.
Sophos Managed Risk is ideal for organizations of all sizes that need enhanced cybersecurity without the overhead of a large in-house security team. It is particularly beneficial for large enterprises needing scalable risk management solutions and for regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and legal sectors, which require strict compliance and robust vulnerability management systems.
Sophos Managed Risk is a fully managed service delivered by Sophos experts, offering comprehensive vulnerability management. It provides attack surface discovery, categorization and reporting, risk-based prioritization of vulnerabilities, proactive notification of critical exposures, and automated attack surface monitoring and vulnerability scans. You benefit from scheduled reviews with the Sophos Managed Risk team, and have a dedicated team of vulnerability experts on hand when you need them. Sophos Managed Risk collaborates with the Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service that protects you 24/7 from evolving cyberthreats.
Sophos Managed Risk enables organizations to find and eliminate blind spots and stay ahead of potential attacks by clearly understanding and prioritizing the highest risk exposures, with expert guidance from Sophos’ dedicated team.
Common use cases for Sophos Managed Risk include attack surface visibility to mitigate cyber risk and prevent potential threats by knowing what you own. Continuous risk monitoring by the Sophos Managed Risk team extends your IT Security team with vulnerability experts that prioritize vulnerabilities on your behalf. This prioritization helps you understand your exposures and which vulnerabilities to fix first. When severe exposures are discovered that could lead to significant harm if exploited, Sophos Managed Risk proactively notifies you and provides remediation guidance.
Vulnerability scan results include Tenable's AI-powered Vulnerability Priority Ratings (VPR). These ratings are included in Sophos Managed Risk vulnerability reports.

Sophos Managed Risk

See why customers choose Sophos

Focus on the vulnerabilities that matter most to your business

Continuous monitoring

Risk-based vulnerability prioritization

Notification of high-risk exposures

Superior cybersecurity outcomes delivered as a service

Benefits

Attack surface visibility

Risk-based vulnerability prioritization

Dedicated team of vulnerability experts

Attack surface and vulnerability reporting

Proactive remediation guidance

Continuous monitoring

A managed service by vulnerability experts

Collaborates with Sophos MDR

Sophos Fusion

Cybersecurity for all your needs

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

Get pricing

Frequently asked questions

What is Sophos Managed Risk?

What does "Powered by Tenable" mean?

Why should I subscribe to Sophos Managed Risk?

Who should subscribe to Sophos Managed Risk?

What is included in Sophos Managed Risk?

What are the benefits of Sophos Managed Risk?

What are some common use cases for Sophos Managed Risk?

How does Sophos Managed Risk use AI?

Downloads

Videos

Sophos News

Superior cybersecurity outcomes delivered as a service

Benefits

Attack surface visibility

Risk-based vulnerability prioritization

Dedicated team of vulnerability experts

Attack surface and vulnerability reporting

Proactive remediation guidance

Continuous monitoring

A managed service by vulnerability experts

Collaborates with Sophos MDR

Sophos Fusion

Get pricing

Frequently asked questions

What is Sophos Managed Risk?

What does "Powered by Tenable" mean?

Why should I subscribe to Sophos Managed Risk?

Who should subscribe to Sophos Managed Risk?

What is included in Sophos Managed Risk?

What are the benefits of Sophos Managed Risk?

What are some common use cases for Sophos Managed Risk?

How does Sophos Managed Risk use AI?

Downloads

Videos

Sophos News

Cybersecurity for all your needs

Sophos Managed Detection and Response