We are delighted to announce that Sophos has been named a Leader within the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses 2024 Vendor Assessment.
This IDC MarketScape evaluates distributors based mostly on how their endpoint prevention, EDR, and MDR capabilities meet the wants of organizations with 100 – 2,499 staff.
According to the IDC MarketScape analysis, “Sophos should be a strong consideration for midsize businesses seeking to reduce their number of core security vendors without sacrificing security efficacy”. Read the excerpt
“With their professional and managed security services, expanded product set, and ability to integrate with existing security investments, it’s clear that Sophos understands the needs and challenges of a midsize business,” mentioned Michael Suby, analysis vice chairman, Security & Trust, IDC. “Sophos’s comprehensive approach from prevention through recovery places Sophos on the shortlist of midsize businesses looking for an established and effective partner for security.”
Protection-first strategy
We consider our continued deal with preventative safety is a key contributor to Sophos’ place as a Leader on this analysis. It gives a sturdy basis for the Sophos XDR resolution and the Sophos MDR service. Sophos delivers sturdy menace safety to considerably cut back the detection and response workload for IT admins and safety analysts.
The IDC MarketScape notes, “Sophos recently added several new capabilities: adaptive attack protection, critical attack warning, and data protection and recovery. Adaptive attack protection, introduced in early 2023, is a demonstration of Sophos’ means to disrupt hands-on-keyboard attackers while minimizing potential disruption to legitimate operations.”
The report additionally notes, “Sophos includes an expansive set of protection technologies (host-based firewall and IDS/IPS, device control, DLP, and encryption) as standard features in its endpoint security offering.”
Extensive and suitable safety platform and ecosystem
The Sophos safety platform combines an expansive portfolio of merchandise and managed safety providers with compatibility with an intensive suite of third-party options. Organizations can detect and reply to threats utilizing a single unified platform, leveraging the expertise they want from Sophos or connecting their present cybersecurity applied sciences.
“For the many midsize businesses and VARs serving midsized business that are struggling with SecOps staffing and maturity, Sophos offers the means to overcome this challenge without forcing a full vendor swap.”
We proceed to increase and diversify strategic and expertise partnerships to allow organizations to scale back cyber threat additional. Recognizing this strategy, the IDC MarketScape refers to our expanded partnerships with cyber insurance coverage suppliers, serving to midsize companies deal with potential challenges in looking for insurance coverage protection.
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To study extra about why Sophos was named a Leader within the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses, learn the excerpt right here.
Additional Sophos buyer and analyst validation
Sophos’ recognition as a Leader on this IDC MarketScape comes on the heels of a number of buyer endorsements and third-party validations, together with:
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses (Doc ##US50521323, February 2024).