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Sophos Email
An easy-to-use, enterprise-grade email security solution to defend against evasive email-based threats
Sophos Email prevents email threats from reaching users' inboxes through multi-layered AI protection, unmatched threat intelligence, and strong brand and identity detection. It also seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, includes phishing simulation and user awareness training, and provides Sophos MDR with exceptional visibility into email threats.
"Known for robust AI and ML defenses, it [Sophos Email] effectively guards against threats like BEC and phishing attacks… The innovative AI-powered natural language processing enhances the system’s ability to thwart social engineering attacks, making it particularly effective against BEC."
Martin Kuppinger
Principal Analyst & Co-Founder, KuppingerCole
Protecting your inboxes from advanced email threats has never been more important
Modern email-based attacks require a solution that reduces exposure to advanced phishing and BEC attacks, trains users to spot deception, and protects your business from costly breaches and operational disruption.
Evolving threats
AI‑generated phishing, BEC, and identity‑spoofing attacks are increasingly sophisticated, often bypassing native filtering tools and putting users a click away from compromise.
Operational complexity
Complex deployment, configuration, and management increase the risk of compromise.
Human-layer risk
Email-based attacks hinge on deceiving users, making lapses in human judgement one of the most exploited and impactful threat vectors.
OVERVIEW
AI-powered, enterprise-grade, and easy-to-use
Sophos Email delivers enterprise-grade email protection via multi-layered AI, threat intelligence, strong brand and identity detection, with phishing simulation, awareness training, anti-spam, and full visibility.
Superior threat identification and prevention block evasive phishing attacks, BEC attacks, and spam.
Flexible deployment and exceptional usability
End-to-end email security inclusive of phishing and end-user awareness training, all at a competitive price.
Sophos Email: Key components
Sophos Email leverages multiple features to reduce cyber risk, elevate defenses against AI threats, enhance user awareness, and simplify operations.
How Sophos Email delivers
AI-powered defenses
Sophos Email includes multiple AI and ML models that operate across multiple layers to detect the widest range of email-based threats. These models are continuously enriched with real-world attack insights from Sophos X-Ops, enabling them to adapt to evasive and AI-generated email attacks faster than traditional defenses.
Impersonation and BEC protection
Proprietary natural language processing (NLP) models analyze the text, tone, context, and structure of emails to protect from BEC and account takeover attacks.
Anti-spoofing and authentication enforcement
SPF, DKIM and DMARC form a layered defense that verifies sender legitimacy, message integrity, and protect against email spoofing and phishing.
Zero-day threat protection
Static and dynamic file analysis, including sandboxing, examines attachments and their behavior to determine if they are malicious.
Time-of-click URL rewriting
Protects the users from the deferred weaponization of URLs by rewriting them in the delivered email. This allows the URL to be scanned at the moment the user clicks on the link, rather than when the email is delivered.
QR-code and image-based threat detection
Protection from the malicious URLs embedded by attackers within QR codes or images instead of traditional clickable links.
Post-delivery protection
Allows the automatic clawback of emails that are later identified as malicious after they've already been delivered to user inboxes, closing the window of exposure when threat intelligence is updated after the initial delivery.
Data loss prevention (DLP) and Encryption
Multi-rule DLP and Content Control policies detect and automatically encrypt sensitive data in emails, while Portal Encryption provides a branded, secure web portal for compliant email sharing.
Deep Microsoft and Google Integration
Seamlessly integrate with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, reinforcing your existing infrastructure with advanced threat detection that ensures no email threat goes undetected. Administrators can quarantine suspicious messages pre- or post-delivery with Microsoft 365 directly from Sophos Central.
Integrated end-user awareness training
Built-in phishing simulation and security awareness training programs keep users alert to the latest phishing techniques. Comprehensive reporting makes it easy to demonstrate program delivery and compliance.
MDR/XDR-assisted threat containment
Sophos Email integrates with Sophos MDR and XDR to provide SecOps teams with deeper visibility and control to neutralize active threats and execute needed remediations in real time.
Synchronized Security
Synchronized Security links mailbox and endpoint data to detect compromised accounts and block malicious messages. Integration between Sophos Email, Workspace Protection and Endpoint delivers a complete workspace security platform via Sophos Central, providing unified, holistic protection across user devices and communication channels.
Sophos Email Monitoring System (EMS)
Sophos Email Monitoring System reinforces your existing email infrastructure to detect missed threats, integrating seamlessly with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other email security products. Integration with Sophos MDR and XDR incorporates email telemetry into broader threat detection and response, while combining with Sophos Endpoint and Workspace Protection delivers a unified, single-vendor workspace security platform managed through Sophos Central, consolidating visibility and control across users, devices, applications, and communication channels.
DMARC Manager
DMARC implementation can be complex, requiring organizations to navigate intricate DNS, SPF, and DKIM configurations, all while avoiding missteps that could block critical business email. DMARC Manager removes this burden by providing intuitive visibility into your authentication landscape, automating report analysis, and guiding you toward DMARC conformance - helping you protect your brand from spoofing and phishing and achieve ongoing compliance with minimal effort.
Portal Encryption
Many organizations need to ensure that the sensitive information shared via email is protected in transit and at rest to meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Portal Encryption addresses these requirements by providing a secure web-portal where recipients can access and respond to encrypted messages without needing their own encryption infrastructure, ensuring sensitive communications stay protected regardless of the recipient's email setup. Custom branding strengthens recipient trust further, while administrators retain complete control over the portal and its users.
Sophos Phish Threat
Users are the most targeted entry point for cyberattacks, with phishing and social engineering exploiting human error over technical vulnerabilities. Sophos Email includes Sophos Phish Threat, delivering realistic phishing simulations and interactive training that empower employees to recognize and resist threats. Comprehensive reporting gives IT teams clear visibility into organizational risk and makes it easy to demonstrate compliance.
What Customers are saying
“Sophos Email Security has made managing email threats much easier for our IT team. We no longer have to manually monitor spam or chase down phishing reports as most of it is handled automatically. The dashboard is clean, self-explanatory and provides all statistics in a single pane of glass. It gives us peace of mind that harmful emails are being stopped before reaching anyone as alerts are clear and useful.”
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Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Free up IT and security staff to focus on business enablement and leverage superior security outcomes delivered as a service.
- Instant security operations center (SOC).
- 24/7 threat detection and response.
- Expert-led threat hunting.
- Full-scale incident response capabilities.
- Keep the cybersecurity software you already have.
- On-demand, weekly and monthly cybersecurity health reports.
- The most robust MDR service for Microsoft environments.
- Breach protection warranty.
Sophos Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Included with Sophos MDR and available separately: Empower your security team to defend against active adversaries with extended detection and response (XDR) tools.
- Gain insights into evasive threats.
- Optimize your investigations with streamlined workflows.
- AI-powered tools accelerate security operations.
- Accelerate and automate response.
- Leverage a fully integrated portfolio of Sophos products.
- Integrate with your existing cybersecurity tools.
- Includes endpoint protection and EDR features as standard.
Workspace Protection
Secure access to your apps, data, workers, and guests — everywhere, easily, and affordably.
- A single bundle – Sophos Protected Browser, Sophos ZTNA, Sophos DNS Protection, and Sophos Email Monitoring System – to secure the modern workspace.
- Protect your workers on the web.
- Protect your private applications.
- Eliminate Shadow IT.
- Enable generative AI adoption.
Free Trial
If you already have an active Sophos Central account, you can access Sophos Email from the Sophos Central Admin console. Log in to Sophos Central, click Free Trials, and select Sophos Email. Otherwise, fill out this form to begin a free trial.
- Protect users from malware, phishing, and impersonation attempts
- Secure sensitive data with DLP and a range of encryption options
- Compatible with all other email services where you control the domain and DNS records
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