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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.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Cybercriminals don’t just attack endpoints. Get the full picture with Sophos. Bitdefender does not offer networking hardware (Next-Gen Firewall, Wireless, Switches) or ZTNA.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, and cloud security, as well as third-party security controls in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem. Sophos Central is a single management console built for organizations of all sizes and capabilities. You can manage your security on your own, or Sophos MDR can detect, investigate, and respond to threats for you.
Context-Sensitive Defenses
Don’t let attackers live off your land. Sophos dynamically increases defenses on the device, severely limiting the options available to an active attacker.
Context-Sensitive Defenses
When Sophos detects a hands-on-keyboard attack, we automatically activate extra defenses on the endpoint with a "shields up" approach. Sophos Adaptive Attack Protection blocks suspicious activities like downloads of remote admin tools, disrupting the attack and giving your team valuable time to respond.
You Can’t Detect What You Can’t See
When hunting for threats, you don’t want to be limited. You want visibility across your estate with all the guidance and automation you can get.
You Can’t Detect What You Can’t See
Sophos has the industry's only security operations platform that brings together native endpoint, server, firewall, email, and cloud security, as well as third-party security controls. Threat hunt across the Sophos data lake or pivot to a device for real-time state and up to 90 days of historical data. Get a holistic view of your organization's environment enriched with Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence for threat detection, investigation, and response designed for dedicated SOC teams and IT admins. Bitdefender XDR has fewer integrations, reducing visibility and potentially increasing the likelihood a threat will be missed.
Sophos vs. Bitdefender
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Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution |
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Attack surface reduction, with multiple technologies for web protection, application control, and device control that eliminate attack vectors and protect against data loss |
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Strong protection by default without configuration |
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Adaptive Attack Protection |
Not provided |
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Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture |
Not provided |
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A Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products |
Not provided |
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Automatic document rollback after encryption by ransomware |
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Management, Investigation, and Remediation |
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Single console for management, reporting, and security operations |
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Alert triage and assistance |
Partially provided | |
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Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities |
Partially provided | |
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Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC |
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Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC |
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Threat Hunting and Response |
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Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality |
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Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment, correlate information, and pivot between endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, public cloud, and Microsoft 365 data |
Partially provided | |
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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 |
Partially provided | |
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Incident response included in top MDR tier |
(Optional IR Retainer for lower MDR tiers) |
Not provided |
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Integration with third-party security control to leverage your existing security investments, gain full visibility into your environment, and provide detections and alerts to your team and the MDR team |
Partially provided | |
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Monitor and generate detections across your third-party security controls and data sources |
Not provided |
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Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR) |
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.
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Disclaimer: This document was prepared for informational purposes only based on publicly available data as of Feb 2024.