Cyber Defense for the AI Era

AI threat protection helps organizations defend against attacks that use AI to increase speed, scale, and scope. This includes more persuasive phishing, automated reconnaissance, adaptive malware, and scaled vulnerability exploitation. Effective AI threat protection requires connected control points, AI-native detection, threat intelligence, automation, and expert-led response. Sophos Fusion brings these capabilities together in one defense system, helping organizations identify suspicious activity earlier and respond before attacks cause disruption.

Sophos embeds AI across its products, services, threat intelligence, and security operations to reduce exposure, stop threats faster, and help defenders work with greater confidence. Deep learning helps detect known and unknown attacks, while GenAI capabilities in Sophos XDR support analysts as they investigate cases, summarize detection data, interpret suspicious command-line activity, and search through security data using natural language. Combined with our AI-native defense system, all these use cases help organizations respond faster and defend more effectively.

Sophos responds to AI-enabled threats by uniting prevention, detection, investigation, and response in one system. Sophos Fusion brings together signals from endpoints, networks, email, cloud, identity, MDR, XDR, Firewall, Next-Gen SIEM, and more, helping defenders see the full context of an attack and coordinate response across the environment. AI helps identify suspicious behavior, prioritize detections, summarize cases, interpret command-line activity, and accelerate investigation, while Sophos MDR analysts provide expert oversight when human judgement is needed. Confirmed threats can be contained and removed quickly, helping organizations stop attacks before they spread or cause disruption.

Traditional and even “modern” cybersecurity have relied on separate tools, platformization, static rules, and manual investigation. AI-native cybersecurity is built to learn from large volumes of security data, recognize patterns, and support faster decisions across the security lifecycle. With Sophos Fusion, for example, AI-native cybersecurity operates through a single, open architecture where products, services, integrations, threat intelligence, automation, and human expertise work together. This strengthens the system as it grows.

A connected cybersecurity defense system like Sophos Fusion enables your security tools, data, and expert insight to work together instead of operating in isolation. Unifying disconnected touchpoints and compounding intelligence links malicious indicators, streamlines complex decision processing, and triggers a faster, more targeted response. Sophos Fusion connects protection, detection, investigation, and response across Sophos and third-party technologies, with 500+ integrations. This enables teams with better visibility, deeper context, and a more coordinated response effort. Intelligence from 625,000+ customers further strengthens protection as the system learns from every threat, analyst decision, and outcome.

Sophos enables organizations to adopt AI securely by giving them visibility and control over how AI is used across their environment. Sophos AI Defense helps discover sanctioned and unsanctioned AI tools, assess risk based on identity, permissions, behavior, and data exposure, and enforce guardrails across prompts, uploads, AI interactions, and agent activity. It also feeds AI-related activity into Sophos XDR and MDR workflows, helping teams reduce data exposure and manage AI risk without adding complexity.

Organizations need AI threat protection to defend against threat actors using AI, and AI security to protect their own use of AI. One addresses external threats. The other reduces risk from internal AI adoption. Sophos Fusion brings both together in one connected defense system, helping organizations stop AI-era attacks while securing the users, data, applications, agents, and workflows involved in AI-driven innovation.