Sophos named a leader in 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass

Sophos, a global provider of next-generation cybersecurity, has been named a leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Endpoint Protection, Detection, and Response for 2022. It has been recognized as an Overall Leader, having swept all product, innovation, and market leadership ratings.

“Sophos Intercept X is a feature-rich solution that should be on the shortlist for any organization,” according to the report. It is rated as an Overall Leader in terms of security, functionality, deployment, interoperability, and usability.

“An increasing number of organizations are being hit with ransomware, and the average ransom payment rose nearly fivefold to more than $800,000 last year, according to the State of Ransomware 2022,” said Raja Patel, senior vice president of products at Sophos. “There’s a lot at stake, and no organization is off limits. This KuppingerCole recognition is validation that Sophos is delivering industry-best protection against ransomware and other advanced cyberthreats.”

Sophos Intercept X combines anti-ransomware technology, deep learning artificial intelligence, exploit prevention, and active adversary mitigations to provide multiple layers of security. Intercept X with XDR extends protection beyond endpoints and servers to include detection, investigation, and response capabilities, integrating additional context to create the industry’s richest data set. Customers can manage these capabilities easily in the cloud-native Sophos Central platform, or they can outsource them to Sophos MTR, a threat hunting, detection, investigation, and response service that provides a dedicated 24/7 security team to rapidly identify and neutralize sophisticated and complex threats.

Sophos solutions and managed services are part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which allows them to share real-time threat intelligence for more contextual and synchronized detection, protection, and response. When the solutions work together, they can better identify and respond to active threats.

A complimentary copy of the 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Endpoint Protection, Detection and Response is available at https://www.sophos.com/en-us/content/kuppingercole-leadership-compass-for-endpoint-protection.