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Sophos + Microsoft for Managed Service Providers
Stronger security. Smarter service delivery. Better business outcomes.
As a Managed Service Provider, you operate in a Microsoft world — every tenant, every identity, every workload. And as your Microsoft footprint grows, so does the pressure to deliver stronger protection, faster response, and consistent outcomes at scale. Sophos helps you meet that demand by combining our security operations expertise with the Microsoft technologies your customers already trust, giving you a more profitable, more resilient, and easier‑to‑scale service model without adding operational overhead.
of Sophos MDR cases are triggered by Microsoft telemetry.
advanced attacks on Microsoft environments neutralized by Sophos MDR in 2025
average threat remediation time in Microsoft environments by Sophos MDR.
Why sell Sophos solutions into Microsoft environments
Microsoft powers your customers’ environments. Sophos powers stronger protection and higher margins for your business.
By combining Sophos with Microsoft, you can deliver more complete security, expand your services, and grow recurring revenue while keeping operations simple and predictable.
Increase profitability
Microsoft forms the backbone of your services but Sophos helps drive the margin.
Layering Sophos MDR, Endpoint, Email, Firewall, and Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) into the tenants you already manage increases recurring revenue without adding operational overhead.
Expand your security footprint
Sophos adds protection capabilities that extend beyond native Microsoft controls, helping you deliver broader, more complete security coverage.
From 24/7 detection and response to identity, email, endpoint, and network protection, every added capability increases revenue, stickiness, and strategic value inside each customer environment.
Increase business resilience
Microsoft delivers strong native security, but coverage varies across licenses and protection layers. Sophos strengthens the environments you manage with deeper visibility, faster detection, and continuous response across your environment — helping you deliver consistent protection and predictable service performance across every tenant.
Strengthen your trusted adviser role
Customers expect you to help them get more value from the Microsoft ecosystem. Sophos turns security data into clear action, measurable improvement, and stronger outcomes, positioning you as the strategic adviser guiding both their Microsoft and cybersecurity strategy.
Better together means stronger protection across every customer you manage
Managing security across multiple Microsoft tenants has never been more complex. For MSPs, the challenge isn’t just stopping attacks, it’s doing it consistently across dozens or hundreds of customers with different Microsoft plans, tools, and levels of maturity.
Sophos helps MSPs deliver stronger, more consistent protection across Microsoft environments by combining deep two-way Microsoft integrations, expert-led response, and a broad security portfolio designed to scale across tenants without increasing operational burden.
Built-in community immunity
Learnings from defending hundreds of thousands of Microsoft environments globally are continuously applied across the Sophos platform, strengthening protection for every customer you manage
Outcome ownership, not alert forwarding
Sophos MDR doesn’t just generate alerts. Our analysts can take decisive action directly within customer tenants, reducing escalations to your team and allowing you to deliver outcomes, not noise.
Breadth to cover the stack
Endpoint, Email, Firewall, ITDR, MDR, Advisory Services, all integrated with Microsoft to reduce risks and stop active threats from a single, coherent strategy.
Microsoft Certified experts
Sophos security operations analysts specialize in Microsoft environments and execute custom Microsoft response playbooks. extending your team with certified expertise — without the cost of building a 24/7 SOC.WHAT “BETTER TOGETHER” LOOKS LIKE
Choosing the right Sophos and Microsoft combination
Strengthening your managed Microsoft service offering starts with choosing the right pairing of Sophos capabilities and Microsoft technologies. Whether you want to build on your existing Microsoft plan or address a specific security challenge, Sophos provides clear, MSP-friendly paths that maximize protection, simplify operations, and deliver consistent outcomes across tenants.
Align with your customers Microsoft plan
Optimize Microsoft subscription by layering the right Sophos protections. Each combination is designed to enhance visibility, improve threat response, and close the gaps attackers rely on.
For M365 Business Basic, Business Standard, O365 E1 and O365 E3
Organizations using these Microsoft productivity-focused plans often need stronger endpoint, email, and detection capabilities to defend against modern threats.
Recommended Sophos additions: focused plans often need stronger endpoint, email, and detection capabilities to defend against modern threats.
- Sophos MDR — Delivers 24/7 detection and expert-led response using Microsoft telemetry. led response
- Sophos Endpoint — Advanced protection, including robust remote ransomware protection.
- Sophos Email — Enhanced phishing and BEC protection.
For M365 Business Premium, M365 E3, and E5 with Microsoft Defender solutions
These plans introduce more built-in protection tools, but teams often need stronger detection, response, and validation of their organization’s security posture.
Recommended Sophos additions: in protection
- Sophos MDR with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Sophos Advisory Services — Identify security gaps with penetration testing and assessments.
- Sophos Email Monitoring Service — Layered visibility and detection on top of Microsoft 365 email.
Align with your customers’ security needs
Sophos offers targeted combinations built to address the threats most common in Microsoft environments.
Identity-based threats
Attackers increasingly target Entra ID and user identities to gain a foothold in your customers’ environments.
Recommended combination:
Microsoft Entra ID + Sophos MDR
- Add Sophos ITDR for proactive identity risk discovery and response.
Remote ransomware
70%* of modern, human-operated ransomware attacks use remote encryption to avoid detection by tools like Microsoft Defender.
Recommended combination:
Sophos Endpoint + Sophos MDR
- Or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint + Sophos MDR if Defender is already deployed.
Business email compromise (BEC)
BEC attacks rely on impersonation, inbox rule manipulation, and MFA bypass techniques.
Recommended combination:
- Microsoft 365 Email + Sophos Email + Sophos MDR
Security posture and risk reduction
Organizations looking to strengthen their resilience benefit from proactive security testing delivered by security experts.
Recommended combination:
Sophos Advisory Services to uncover weaknesses.
- Plus, Microsoft and Sophos solutions to address identified risks.
COMPLEMENTARY SOLUTIONS
How Sophos elevates the Microsoft stacks you manage
Sophos offers a full suite of security capabilities designed to work alongside Microsoft tools and MSP-delivered services. Each solution adds depth, intelligence, and resilience, closing the gaps attackers rely on while remaining simple for MSPs to deploy, manage, and scale across tenants.
Sophos MDR for Microsoft environments
24/7 managed detection and response that blends proprietary detections, Microsoft signals, and expert analysts to rapidly stop threats and deliver true outcome‑based cybersecurity.
- Uses Microsoft signals to identify and protect against sophisticated attacks that technology alone cannot stop.
- Leverages telemetry from Microsoft Graph Security and Management Activity APIs to deliver deep detection value, even without E5 licensing.
- Includes integrations with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technology solutions for complete coverage of your customers’ IT estates.
- Rapidly executes response actions directly in your customers’ Microsoft environments, including revoking M365 sessions, disabling sign-ins, and suspending malicious inbox rules. ins, and suspending malicious inbox rules.
- Use with Sophos Endpoint (included) or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Sophos MDR is a Microsoft-verified Small and Medium Business (SMB) Solution through the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), validating deep integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Business to deliver stronger, faster protection across Microsoft environments.
Sophos Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) for Entra ID
Continuously scans Entra ID for misconfigurations and exposures, monitors for credential abuse including dark web findings, and enables analysts to take response actions in Entra ID to contain identity attacks, fast. Sophos ITDR elevates the native IAM capabilities of Entra ID with unmatched threat protection from Sophos.
Sophos Endpoint for superior ransomware protection
70%* of modern, human-operated ransomware attacks use remote encryption to avoid detection by tools including Microsoft Defender. Sophos Endpoint includes proprietary CryptoGuard technology to stop local and remote ransomware in its tracks. User-based licensing maximizes value when team members have multiple devices, including endpoints running legacy and out-of-support Windows operating systems.
Sophos Email for Microsoft 365
Integrates with Exchange Online to stop phishing and BEC attacks and adds user awareness training and phishing simulations, all without disrupting mail flow or Microsoft security policies.
Sophos Firewall for Microsoft environments
Sophos Firewall is optimized for Microsoft environments, with flexible hardware, virtual, and cloud deployment options (including Azure and HyperV), Entra ID integration for zero-trust remote access, and Azure Virtual WAN integration for SD-WAN overlay network deployments.
Sophos Intelix for Microsoft Copilot
Sophos Intelix brings Sophos X Ops’ threat intelligence into Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot, delivering smarter security, seamlessly within Microsoft environments. These integrations make advanced cyber intelligence instantly accessible where defenders, IT admins, and business users already operate.
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Talk to a Sophos expert about strengthening the Microsoft‑based environments your team manages.
- Tailored to your customers’ Microso ft environment.
Get clear guidance on the right mix of Sophos and Microsoft capabilities based on your M365 footprint. - Protection where it’s needed most.
Reinforce defenses across identity, endpoint, email, network, and cloud workloads. - Make the most of Microsoft investments.
Enhance the effectiveness of your Microsoft tools while improving overall security coverage. - Extend the value of your MSP services.
Offer stronger, Microsoft‑aligned security services that help you deepen customer trust and grow steady, long-term recurring revenue.
* Microsoft 2024 Digital Defense report.