Sophos Recognized for Endpoint Leadership in SE Labs Awards 2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has won three honors in the 2026 SE Labs Awards, recognizing its strength in delivering effective, real-world protection for both enterprise and small business environments.  

Sophos was recognized in the following categories: 

• SE Labs Award for Enterprise Endpoint (Windows)
• SE Labs Award for Small Business Endpoint (Windows)
• SE Labs Award for Small Business Security Development

The SE Labs Awards are based on a rigorous combination of continuous public testing, private assessments, and feedback from corporate customers, reflecting how effectively solutions perform in real-world attack scenarios. Winning across both enterprise and small business endpoint categories underscores Sophos’ leadership at every tier of the market.  

“As the threat landscape escalates as attackers adopt AI to scale their operations and trade craft, it’s never been more important for the industry to have independent verification of security effectiveness,” said Simon Reed, chief security officer at Sophos. “As we have seen very recently as AI advances at an ever-increasing rate, the ability of attackers to weaponize vulnerabilities has never been greater. AI enables attackers to find vulnerabilities and generate working exploits faster than patch cycles can close them. It is critically important that an endpoint security product proactively blocks attacks using class-based approaches as the mean overall attack duration continues to trend from weeks and days to minutes and seconds. True defense is resilient and proactive.”  

SE Labs’ recognition highlights Sophos’ ability to stop advanced persistent threats (APTs) in enterprise environments, while also providing strong, easy-to-manage, out-of-the-box security for small and mid-sized organizations.  

“The SE Labs Awards recognizes the vendors that are making a real difference in keeping systems secure,” said Simon Edwards, Founder and CEO of SE Labs. “Winning an award is a significant achievement. It reflects not only strong product performance in our tests but also the commitment of the teams behind the technology. Congratulations to Sophos on its success.” 

These results further reinforce a growing body of independent recognition for Sophos Endpoint, a prevention-first solution designed for the AI era. It disrupts the techniques behind modern attacks, combining advanced threat prevention with real-time intelligence from Sophos X-Ops. As part of the Sophos AI-native Cybersecurity Defense System, Sophos Endpoint shares insights instantly across defenses, so a threat identified on one device can trigger a coordinated response across the environment. The Defense System learns from threats across 600,000+ organizations worldwide. A threat seen by one becomes protection for all. 

Sophos continues to participate in independent, leading third-party tests to validate its solutions against real-world attack scenarios and provide customers with transparent, objective performance benchmarks. 

For more information about the SE Labs Awards, visit https://selabs.uk/news/se-labs-announces-the-winners-of-the-2026-secu rity-awards/.