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Sophos<\/a>, a global cybersecurity company, has announced its participation at GISEC Global 2026<\/a>, running from September 16 to 18 at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City. The company will demonstrate its approach to AI-native security as organizations across the region face a fast-evolving threat landscape. At the event, Sophos will spotlight Sophos Fusion, its cybersecurity defense system built to help businesses move beyond disconnected security tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cyberattacks are changing quickly. Attackers are increasingly using AI and automation to scale campaigns and move across multiple parts of an organization’s environment. As a result, fragmented tools are struggling to keep pace. According to Sophos’ 2026 State of Ransomware report, 79% of ransomware attacks worldwide involve an identity-based entry point. Malicious email and phishing account for 26% of these attacks, followed by exploited vulnerabilities at 24% and compromised credentials at 23%. In the UAE specifically, organizations hit by ransomware reported an average recovery cost of US$665,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These figures highlight a growing need for systems that unify visibility and response. That is where Sophos Fusion comes in. Designed as an AI-native security system, it aims to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to threats at machine speed, while still keeping human expertise central to decision-making. This balance is especially important in the Middle East, where rapid digital transformation and AI adoption are opening up new opportunities alongside new risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs AI agents gain greater access to sensitive systems and data, enterprises need security and governance to keep pace with innovation. This demands a coordinated, AI-native defense system that can respond at the speed and scale of today’s threats,\u201d said Harish Chib, Vice President for Emerging Markets, Middle East & Africa at Sophos. He added that GISEC offers an important platform to engage with customers, partners, policymakers, and security leaders, and to reinforce the company’s commitment to building resilience for the AI era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to Fusion, Sophos will showcase how it is applying agentic AI within its security operations. Through Sophos MDR, agentic workflows are already resolving a significant share of cases end-to-end using AI. Meanwhile, human analysts continue to handle business judgment, context, and complex investigations. As a result, high-confidence tasks can be managed at machine speed, easing the operational load on security teams without removing human oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, Sophos is advancing its use of frontier AI through two key collaborations: the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and Anthropic’s Project Glasswing. These partnerships allow Sophos to bring advanced AI capabilities into its security workflows, with human analysts and controls remaining in the loop. The goal is to speed up threat investigation, strengthen detection, and support faster vulnerability remediation. Through Project Glasswing, Sophos has access to Claude Mythos 5, a frontier AI model not available to the public, which helps identify and fix software vulnerabilities before AI-driven attackers can exploit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visitors can meet the Sophos team and explore its latest capabilities in AI-native security at Hall 4, Booth D100 during GISEC Global 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sophos, a global cybersecurity company, has announced its participation at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":107221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10312,10521],"tags":[5283],"contributor":[9732],"class_list":["post-107219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gisec","category-gisec-2026","tag-gisec","contributor-news-desk"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sophos.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lubna","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/lubna\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t