Sophos has announced significant enhancements to its security operations portfolio, already trusted by over 75 000 organisations worldwide via Sophos XDR and Sophos MDR offerings, marking a significant milestone in its integration journey following the acquisition of Secureworks in February 2025.
In the months since the acquisition of Secureworks for $859 million, Sophos has made transformative progress, unifying technologies, expertise, and services from across its expanded organisation to further elevate defences and cybersecurity outcomes for its customers. Demonstrating this momentum, Sophos today launched Sophos Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), the latest in a series of advances that leverage Secureworks capabilities to expand the company’s security operations offerings.
• Sophos Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR): The newest addition, giving organisations faster visibility into identity risks and providing stronger protection against identity-based attacks.
• Sophos Advisory Services: Announced earlier this month (www.securitysa.com/25812r), providing penetration testing and advanced security assessments informed by Sophos X-Ops intelligence to mitigate cyber risk.
• Integration of threat expertise: The Counter Threat Unit (CTU), integrated through the Secureworks acquisition, has joined Sophos X-Ops, the organisation’s joint task force, uniting multiple specialised teams. This integration expands Sophos’ deep threat expertise with world-class adversary tracking, dark web intelligence, and collaboration with law enforcement and government agencies worldwide. The combined intelligence of Sophos X-Ops powers all Sophos products and services, delivering defence against cyberthreats, including ransomware, state-sponsored attacks, and identity-based intrusions.
• Sophos Endpoint integration with Secureworks Taegis MDR and XDR: Announced in September, Sophos Endpoint is now natively integrated with Taegis MDR and Taegis XDR and automatically included with all subscriptions, delivering unified prevention, detection, and response while reducing complexity and cost.
Together, these advancements strengthen Sophos’ ability to help organisations of all sizes defend against evolving threats by combining advanced technology with trusted human expertise.
“Sophos is redefining what it means to be a trusted security partner,” said Raja Patel, chief product officer, Sophos. “Our strategy is to meet organisations wherever they are in their cybersecurity journey, uniting advanced defences with deep human expertise to outpace adversaries. With global scale, visibility, and the intelligence of Sophos X-Ops, we are delivering stronger outcomes today and ensuring organisations can keep their businesses running securely in the face of tomorrow’s threats.”
Market Expansions
With the launch of Sophos ITDR and the recent introduction of Sophos Advisory Services, the company is further expanding its trusted security operations portfolio. Based on the proven Taegis IDR solution from Secureworks, Sophos ITDR gives organisations faster visibility into identity risks and stronger protection against identity-based attacks, one of the fastest-growing threat vectors globally.
Sophos Advisory Services, informed by Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence and delivered by seasoned cybersecurity experts, provides penetration testing and advanced security assessments to help organisations identify gaps, strengthen defences, and reduce risk. Together, these offerings expand the portfolio of solutions Sophos partners can deliver to customers, while creating new growth opportunities and helping them differentiate their offerings.
Portfolio advances in endpoint security, AI, and MDR
Updated endpoint security portfolio: Includes a simplified Sophos EDR licensing tier, which makes it easier for organisations of all sizes to access enterprise-grade protection, while giving partners streamlined ways to deliver and sell Sophos solutions.
Advances in AI: Including the addition of new security analyst and threat hunting AI assistants that support investigation and proactive hunting workflows in Sophos XDR and MDR. Informed by Sophos MDR analysts’ experience securing more than 35 000 organisations from advanced, human-led threats, Sophos AI assistants help security teams quickly identify risks, enrich investigations with threat intelligence, and take faster remediation actions.
Enhancing XDR and MDR integrations: To accelerate threat detection and response across the whole organisational environment, Sophos is making it easier for customers to connect their IT and cybersecurity technologies with the open Sophos Central platform. Starting in November 2025, all Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR subscriptions include third-party technology integrations spanning endpoint, firewall, network, cloud, email, identity, backup, and productivity solutions, at no additional cost. This enhanced visibility enables analysts to identify, investigate, and neutralise threats faster, while helping customers maximise the return on their existing IT investments.
Every day, Sophos processes 223+ terabytes of telemetry in Sophos Central, generating 34+ million detections and automatically blocking 11+ million threats. This scale of customer insights also ensures that Sophos’ detections are tested and improved to provide continuous protection, while delivering stronger outcomes for organisations worldwide. Together, the new portfolio advances, spanning identity protection, advisory services, endpoint innovation, AI, MDR, and human expertise, exemplify how Sophos is delivering measurable security outcomes at a global scale.
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