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Prevent Breaches, Ransomware, and Data Loss with Sophos

Adversaries can execute sophisticated attacks at scale, targeting your users, network and cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and servers. It’s not surprising that IT security teams are constantly searching for security solutions that provide better protection and visibility across their estate. Sophos protects your organization with a prevention-first approach and provides a holistic view of your organization's environment with native and third-party security integrations, enabling you to detect, investigate, and respond to threats in your environment.

Sophos vs. Bitdefender

FEATURES	Sophos	Bitdefender
Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution
Offers a comprehensive, integrated platform that covers endpoint, firewall, email, cloud, mobile, SD-WAN, remote access, and wireless security.
Curated Application Control with categorized list of applications
Curated Data Loss Prevention with categorized list of data detectors
Single console for management, reporting, and security operations
Adaptive Attack Protection
Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture
A Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products
Ransomware protection
Protection against remote ransomware		(off by default)
Automatic document rollback after encryption by ransomware		(off by default)
Management, Investigation, and Remediation
Alert triage and assistance
Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities
Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC
Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC
Threat Hunting and Response
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality
Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment
MDR service provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and unlimited remediation to organizations of all sizes, with support available over the phone or through email
Comprehensive remote incident response included in top MDR tier
XDR and MDR that can can integrate with a broad ecosystem of third-party endpoint, firewall, email, cloud and network solutions.
Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR)
Industry Analyst Recognition
A Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms
A Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses
A Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response
A Leader in Frost & Sullivan's 2024 Frost Radar report for Managed Detection and Response

Adaptive Attack Protection

Adaptive Attack Protection is a dynamic step up in endpoint security. When a hands-on-keyboard attack is detected, Sophos Endpoint automatically activates extra defenses based on a "shields up" perspective. It stops an attacker and provides you with time to respond. For more information, watch the Adaptive Attack Protection video.

A Unified Security Ecosystem

Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, cloud security, and third-party security controls in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem and single management console that Bitdefender can't match. All of your Sophos products are continuously optimized with real-time threat intelligence and operational insights from Sophos X-Ops.