Sophos Named A Leader In 2023 Gartner Report

Sophos has now been positioned as a leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms [EPP], marking the 14th consecutive time the company has been a Leader in the report.

Speaking on this achievement, Raja Patel, the Chief Product Officer at Sophos, said that the company’s market-leading and flagship EPP solution are part of the reason why it has been selected a leader again. He further said that Sophos is consistently innovating its protection-first technologies to defeat current and changing cyberattacks.

“Security vendors cannot stay static. There’s too much at stake. Adversaries will always look for the easiest and newest ways to avoid detection or take advantage of misconfigurations and other security gaps to reach their endgame. That’s why we always prioritize adaptive and preventative EPP defenses for our customers,” Patel noted.

Sophos Intercept X defends more than 300,000 organizations from ransomware, exploited software vulnerabilities and other modern cyberattacks, and leverages deep learning artificial intelligence [AI] to enhance protections. Intercept X includes the industry-first Adaptive Attack Protection, which automatically disrupts in-progress attacks and dynamically puts “shields up” to give defenders valuable additional time to respond to an intrusion. The Account Health Check capability also identifies security posture drift and misconfigurations, and provides the ability to remediate these issues with one click.

Already this year, Sophos was named a Customers’ Choice in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms [EPP] report. Sophos was the only vendor recognized as a Customer’s Choice across EPP, managed detection and response [MDR], network firewalls, and mobile threat defense. Like Intercept X, Sophos MDR is recognized and is the most reviewed MDR solution on Gartner Peer Insights and G2. As the most widely used MDR offering with more than 19,000 customers, Sophos MDR is the only MDR service that can be delivered across end users’ existing third-party security deployments as well as Sophos offerings.

Managed in the cloud-native Sophos Central platform, Sophos’ portfolio solutions are part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, where security data is collected, correlated and enriched with additional context to enable automatic and synchronized responses to active threats. This platform is further optimized by Sophos X-Ops’ real-time and historical threat intelligence and expertise.