Solution Brief

Sophos Integrations: Productivity
Detect abnormal user and device activity

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications offer comprehensive tools through cloud-based management
platforms, presenting an evolving attack surface. The Sophos XDR and MDR Productivity integrations
work with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace to enhance visibility into malicious activities, including
abnormal behaviors and account compromises.

Use Cases
1 | INCREASE RETURN ON INVESTMENT
Desired Outcome: Leverage your existing tools to achieve superior security outcomes.
Solution: Productivity suites generate valuable telemetry for security analysts. However,accessing and interpreting this data can take considerable time and effort. Integrating
your productivity suite with Sophos XDR and MDR allows security analysts to detect andrespond to threats with a unified platform.

Productivity integrations areincluded with Sophos XDR andSophos MDR subscriptions.

2 | INVESTIGATE SUSPICIOUS USER ACTIVITY
Desired Outcome: Detect and analyze unusual activity to prevent potential breaches.
Solution: Applications like email and remote file storage can create multiple attackvectors for threat actors to exploit. Integrating productivity telemetry data into Sophos
XDR and MDR exposes unauthorized user access patterns that can indicate an attack,such as repeated failed login attempts, suspicious sessions, logins from unidentified IP
addresses, and email inbox tampering.

Named a Leader for XDR andMDR in the Summer 2024 G2
Grid®️ Reports

3 | GENERATE BREACH TIMELINES
Desired Outcome: Identify the origin of an attack by adding context to detected security
events.
Solution: Constructing breach timelines requires tools capable of tracing an attack’s
inception. The Sophos XDR and MDR Productivity integrations capture details of user andadministrator actions and correlate this information with other detections. Configuration
changes, suspicious resource usage, and unusual execution patterns are tracked to help
determine the origin of a breach.
4 | DETECT DATA EXFILTRATION AND INSIDER THREATS
Desired Outcome: Track data access and file sharing attempts that may violate company
policies and restrictions.
Solution: Productivity tools monitor for sensitive information leaks by tracking dataaccess, detecting user privilege abuse, and providing insights into file sharing. Sophos
MDR analysts can respond to threats by disabling user accounts and terminating
unauthorized file transfers, and provide expert guidance on enhancing security throughpolicy updates, safeguarding company data, and identifying insider threats.

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Gartner®, Voice of the Customer
for Managed Detection andResponse Services report

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