Sophos achieves perfect scores in SE Labs’ protection tests

Sophos announced that its endpoint products ranked first in all three of SE Labs’ protection tests in the first quarter of 2022, with a total protection accuracy score of 100% across the board. In the first quarter of 2021, the three perfect test results will be repeated. Sophos’ Intercept X is the best enterprise and small business security product, and Sophos Home Premium is the best consumer security product.

“These awards are further evidence of the power of Sophos’ next generation security portfolio in defending against ransomware and other cyberthreats,” said  Simon Reed, senior vice president, SophosLabs . “The perfect scores are even more valuable for us if you consider the high standards of SE Labs. Their test approach and methodology are most representative of all third-party testers when compared to the actual, real-world threat landscape. For Sophos, the concept of ‘cybersecurity delivered’ is all about easy to use and state-of-the-art solutions that help to prevent, detect and respond to attacks.”

Sophos Intercept X is the most sophisticated endpoint security solution, with multiple layers of protection for unrivaled defense against advanced attacks. To stop the widest range of threats, it combines anti-ransomware technology, deep learning, artificial intelligence, exploit prevention, and active adversary mitigations. SE Labs evaluated the most recent version of Sophos’ next-generation scanning engine, which is a complete rewrite of functionality. The update affects nearly every aspect of Intercept X and provides numerous benefits to customers, including a smaller memory footprint, improved Deep Learning and AI behavioral detections, and smaller updates that consume less bandwidth.

“Attacks in this test included threats that affect the wider public and more closely targeted individuals and organisations. You could say that we tested the products with ‘public’ malware and full-on hacking attacks,“ said Simon Edwards, CEO, SE Labs. “Products from Sophos produced extremely good results due to a combination of their ability to block malicious URLs, handle exploits and correctly classify legitimate applications and websites. No mistake – the AAA awards from SE Labs for Sophos Intercept X and Sophos Home Premium are truly deserved.”

Sophos Home Premium brings the innovative and powerful security of Intercept X to consumers. Sophos Home provides malware and ransomware protection for Windows PCs and Macs, as well as webcam privacy, web protection, and parental web filtering.