What is cloud security and why do I need it?

Cloud security protects the compute, containers, and cloud services that power your business, detecting threats, preventing attacks, and enabling fast response across your cloud environment. It's built for the speed, scale, and shared-responsibility model of modern cloud infrastructure.

How does Sophos deliver cloud security across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle OCI?

Sophos ingests native telemetry directly from all four major cloud platforms, including control plane logs, network traffic, identity events, and platform-specific findings, and correlates them in a unified XDR console alongside endpoint, network, and identity signals. This gives security teams complete visibility and the ability to investigate and respond from a single place.

Does Sophos cloud security protect Kubernetes and container environments?

Yes. Sophos secures both Kubernetes nodes and the container workloads running on them, with runtime detection across container environments including Docker, containers, CRI-O, and others. Detections are built around the threat models of cloud-native systems, with visibility that extends into non-root namespaces where most security tools have blind spots.

What is the difference between cloud security with XDR and fully managed cloud security?

Sophos XDR is a self-managed solution that gives your security team unified visibility and investigation tools across cloud, endpoint, network, and identity. Sophos MDR is a fully managed cloud security service where Sophos experts, backed by an Agentic SOC, handle 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, and response on your behalf.

How does AI improve cloud security threat detection?

AI-driven threat detection identifies malware, exploits, anomalous behaviors, and cloud platform-specific attacks across your workloads and cloud services. Within Sophos MDR, AI agents autonomously triage alerts and conduct investigations, resolving 52% of cases end-to-end in an average of 89 seconds.

How does Sophos protect against identity-based attacks in cloud environments?

Sophos ITDR integrates with Microsoft Entra ID to monitor for credential abuse, privilege escalation, IAM misconfigurations, and impossible travel sign-ins, feeding identity signals directly into the Sophos XDR workflow alongside cloud, endpoint, and network data.

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Unified detection and response

Attackers don't stay in one place — they move across cloud, endpoint, network, and identity systems. Sophos XDR connects signals from your entire estate into a single workflow, so you can follow an attack from first entry to full resolution.

Multi-cloud platform coverage

Full protection across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. However you build in the cloud, Sophos delivers comprehensive defense across every host, container, and cloud service.

Identity-focused cloud security

Compromised identities are the fastest path through your cloud environment. Sophos brings cloud identity signals into your workflow, detecting credential abuse and IAM misconfigurations before they become breaches.

Abbrevia I Tempi Di Rilevamento E Risposta

Sophos Workload Protection offre visibilità completa sui workload di host e container, identificando malware, exploit e comportamenti anomali prima ancora che i cybercriminali possano fare breccia nei sistemi.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) garantisce visibilità completa su host, container, endpoint, rete e servizi cloud.
Le tecnologie di rilevamento in fase di runtime native del cloud individuano comportamenti anomali ed exploit, nonché minacce quali tentativi di uscita dai container, exploit del kernel e privilege escalation.
I flussi di lavoro semplificati per le indagini sulle minacce attribuiscono massima priorità ai rilevamenti di incidenti ad alto rischio e collegano tutti gli eventi correlati per garantire maggiore efficienza.
La funzionalità integrata Live Response stabilisce una connessione terminal tramite riga di comando all’host, per svolgere attività di correzione.

Integrazione Con Processi Di Sicurezza, IT E DevOps

Contrasta le minacce con una visibilità interattiva in fase di runtime e con rilevamenti delle minacce per host e container, disponibili tramite il modello di distribuzione che più si addice alle esigenze del tuo ambiente.

Agent host a impatto minimo per Linux e Windows

Proteggi i tuoi host e container con un unico agent, gestito dalla console di Sophos Central. Svolgi indagini e rispondi facilmente a comportamenti anomali, exploit e malware da un’unica schermata, ottimizzando l’integrità dei processi IT grazie a rilevamenti automatici, query intuitive e opzioni di risposta da remoto.

Integrazione dei dati di intelligence sulle minacce Linux

Arricchisci i dati dei tuoi flussi di lavoro SecOps con una soluzione ottimizzata per garantire massimi livelli di performance. Include un sensore Linux a impatto minimo, che può essere integrato tramite API nei rilevamenti di comportamenti anomali ed exploit in fase di runtime sugli host, completando e potenziando i tuoi attuali strumenti di automazione, orchestrazione, gestione dei log e incident response.

Broad platform coverage.
Uncompromising protection.

Cloud workloads run on many platforms and every one of them is a potential attack surface. Sophos delivers full protection across Linux and Windows operating systems, with a lean, low-overhead agent designed for cloud environments where every resource has a cost. Ingest native telemetry from AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, and correlate cloud signals with endpoint, identity, and network data to detect and shut down complex, multi-vector attacks.

Comprehensive Linux distro coverage

Full protection across the Linux distributions most common in cloud environments, including RHEL, Ubuntu LTS, Amazon Linux, Debian, Oracle Linux, and CentOS Stream, on both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures.

Kubernetes and containers

Sophos secures container workloads and Kubernetes environments, protecting both the nodes and the containers running on them, with runtime detection including inside non-root namespaces, where most tools have blind spots.

Windows Server, fully covered

Windows Server is a critical part of many cloud estates. Sophos delivers full protection across all current versions, including anti-ransomware, anti-exploitation, and AI-powered threat detection.

Optimized for cloud performance.

Sophos is engineered to run lean. Minimal CPU and memory footprint means your workloads perform as expected and your cloud spend stays predictable. No performance trade-offs.

Risoluzione Più Rapida Degli Incidenti Di Sicurezza

La nostra dashboard intuitiva per i rilevamenti incrementa l’efficacia del processo di incident response. Le minacce negli host e nei container vengono automaticamente identificate e trasformate in un’indagine, dopodiché ogni rilevamento riceve un punteggio di rischio e una priorità stabilita dalle tecnologie di intelligenza artificiale. I punteggi vengono quindi visualizzati con indicatori di colore diverso e mappati in base al framework MITRE ATT@CK, permettendo così agli analisti di sicurezza di attribuire rapidamente la giusta priorità ai rilevamenti e di avviare subito azioni di risposta e correzione per quelli ad alto rischio.

I rilevamenti includono: malware che colpisce specificamente Linux, memoria danneggiata, comportamenti nuovi per i file, comportamenti insoliti per le applicazioni, shell interattive sospette, tentativi di uscita dai container, backdoor nel kernel e in UserLAnd, operazioni dei file con privilegi eccessivi, individuazione della rete, movimenti laterali, process injection, individuazione dei sistemi, modifiche nelle operazioni pianificate, utilizzo del compilatore, utilizzo di comandi con privilegi elevati e attività rischiose da parte di uno sviluppatore.

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Individua Proattivamente Le Minacce E Potenzia Le Tue ITOps

Ottieni subito le informazioni che ti servono. Puoi scegliere e personalizzare uno dei modelli precompilati della nostra raccolta per vari scenari di threat hunting e ITOps, oppure crearne uno nuovo. Puoi accedere a dati in tempo reale, conservati fino a 90 giorni su disco e fino a 30 giorni nel Sophos Data Lake, per trovare validi spunti in qualsiasi situazione.

I principali casi di utilizzo per i clienti:

Perché un workload è particolarmente lento? È in attesa di riavvio?
In quali workload sono presenti vulnerabilità note o servizi sconosciuti?
Ci sono programmi in esecuzione sul computer che dovrebbero essere rimossi?
Visualizzazione di dispositivi non gestiti e non protetti, ad es. laptop, telefoni cellulari e appliance IoT.
Ci sono processi che stanno cercando di stabilire una connessione di rete su porte non standard?
Ci sono processi che hanno recentemente modificato file o chiavi di registro?
Quali sono i programmi che causano problemi di rete in ufficio?
Analisi dei gruppi di sicurezza nel cloud, per identificare le risorse esposte all’Internet pubblico.

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See what’s hiding in your cloud

Ask questions in plain language and get answers fast. Sophos XDR gives SecOps and DevOps teams AI-powered assistants for threat hunting and investigation, querying telemetry across all your cloud accounts, workloads, and services from a single console.

Example investigations:

Are there unusual outbound connections or potential exfiltration attempts across your cloud environments?
Which cloud storage accounts or S3 buckets are misconfigured or exposed to the public internet?
Has any snapshot exfiltration activity been detected across your AWS environment?
Are there suspicious configuration changes or privilege escalations in your cloud control planes?
Which cloud security groups have overly permissive rules that expose resources to the internet?
Are there signs of credential abuse or unusual authentication patterns across your cloud identity estate?

Flexible deployment and management

Sophos gives you the flexibility to deploy and manage cloud security on your own terms, from self-managed XDR to fully managed detection and response.

Deploy and manage Sophos protection across your entire cloud estate from a single unified console.
Need expert support? Sophos MDR can detect, investigate, and respond to threats targeting your cloud infrastructure and workloads on your behalf.
Sophos Professional Services provides hands-on expertise to accelerate and optimize your deployment.

Frequently asked questions

Cloud security protects the compute, containers, and cloud services that power your business, detecting threats, preventing attacks, and enabling fast response across your cloud environment. It's built for the speed, scale, and shared-responsibility model of modern cloud infrastructure.
Sophos ingests native telemetry directly from all four major cloud platforms, including control plane logs, network traffic, identity events, and platform-specific findings, and correlates them in a unified XDR console alongside endpoint, network, and identity signals. This gives security teams complete visibility and the ability to investigate and respond from a single place.
Sophos supports the Linux distributions most commonly deployed in cloud environments, including RHEL, Ubuntu LTS, Amazon Linux, Debian, Oracle Linux, and CentOS Stream, on both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures.
Yes. Sophos secures both Kubernetes nodes and the container workloads running on them, with runtime detection across container environments including Docker, containers, CRI-O, and others. Detections are built around the threat models of cloud-native systems, with visibility that extends into non-root namespaces where most security tools have blind spots.
Sophos XDR is a self-managed solution that gives your security team unified visibility and investigation tools across cloud, endpoint, network, and identity. Sophos MDR is a fully managed cloud security service where Sophos experts, backed by an Agentic SOC, handle 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, and response on your behalf.
AI-driven threat detection identifies malware, exploits, anomalous behaviors, and cloud platform-specific attacks across your workloads and cloud services. Within Sophos MDR, AI agents autonomously triage alerts and conduct investigations, resolving 52% of cases end-to-end in an average of 89 seconds.
Sophos ITDR integrates with Microsoft Entra ID to monitor for credential abuse, privilege escalation, IAM misconfigurations, and impossible travel sign-ins, feeding identity signals directly into the Sophos XDR workflow alongside cloud, endpoint, and network data.