Solution Brief

Sophos MDR
Expert-Led Threat Defense

Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a fully managed 24/7 service delivered by experts
who detect and respond to cyberattacks targeting your computers, servers, networks, cloud workloads,
email accounts, and more. With Sophos MDR, our expert team stops advanced human-led attacks
and takes immediate action to neutralize threats before they can disrupt your business operations orcompromise your sensitive data.
Peer Recognition

Use Cases
1 | 24/7 THREAT MONITORING
Desired Outcome: Extend your IT and Security team with experts who can respond to threats on
your behalf.
Solution: Our highly skilled experts monitor, investigate, and respond to threats 24/7—executing
immediate, human-led response actions to stop confirmed threats. Sophos employs 500+ threat
detection and response experts backed by seven global security operations centers (SOCs).
2 | ACCELERATE THREAT RESPONSE
Desired Outcome: Improve your mean-time-to-respond (MTTR) to confirmed threats.

Sophos named as a Customers
Choice in the 2023 Gartner®,
Voice of the Customer forManaged Detection andResponse Services report

Solution: Sophos MDR analysts can execute threat response actions on your behalf to disrupt,
contain, and eliminate attackers with an industry-leading average threat response time of 38
minutes—96% faster than the industry benchmark.
3 | STOP WHAT SECURITY TOOLS MISS
Desired Outcome: Detect more cyberthreats than security tools can identify on their own.
Solution: Sixty-five percent of ransomware attacks start with an attacker exploiting legitimate
user credentials or an unknown vulnerability and 29% start with compromised credentials.
Sophos MDR analysts perform proactive threat hunts to identify attacker behaviors that only ahuman can detect and rapidly eliminate threats that tools alone can’t stop.

The Overall Top-Rated Managed
Detection and Response Service
as rated and reviewed bycustomers on G2

Industry Recognition

4 | IMPROVE ROIDesired Outcome: Consolidate security technology from across your environment and get more
ROI from your technology investments.
Solution: Sophos MDR can provide the technology you need or leverage your existing
cybersecurity technology investments from third-parties to detect and respond to threats.
Through a connected tech approach that collects and correlates security data from the mostcommonly used security products, Sophos MDR can filter out noisy and redundent security alerts,and eliminate confirmed threats with speed, accuracy, and transparency.

A top performing vendor in theMITRE ATT&CK Evaluation forManaged Security Services

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