Sophos MDR is the world’s most-trusted managed detection and response service. A team of analysts watches your environment around the clock, hunts proactively for threats, and takes action when something needs to be stopped. Protecting more than 26,000 organizations, from SMBs to enterprises.
Most “managed” security services forward alerts and wait for you to act. Sophos MDR investigates, contains, and reports back what was done. The difference shows up most clearly at 2am on a Saturday.
Sophos analysts in global SOCs watching your environment every minute of every day. Holidays included, midnight included, “our IT lead is on vacation” included.
The Sophos MDR team takes action: isolates compromised hosts, disables accounts, terminates malicious processes, kills C2 connections. You wake up to a report of what was done, not a queue of alerts you missed.
Threat hunters look for the patterns that haven’t generated an alert yet: subtle lateral movement, unusual access patterns, dormant attacker tooling. Finds breaches that alert-only services miss entirely.
Sophos MDR runs best on Sophos products but integrates with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, Splunk, AWS, Okta, and more. Switch endpoint vendors later? Your MDR coverage stays.
Onboarding includes a sweep for any active compromise already in your environment. Catches the breaches that have been quietly running for months before MDR ever activates.
MDR analysts work on the same XDR platform you have access to. Full visibility into what they see, what they investigated, what they did - no black-box magic.
Traditional managed security services (MSSPs) collect logs, generate alerts, and forward them to your team. You investigate. You respond. You write the report. MDR flips that model: the MDR team does the work, and you get the answer.
MDR is most valuable where 24/7 coverage is the gap, where staffing a SOC isn’t realistic, or where regulators and insurers explicitly require it.
You have IT generalists and maybe one security person. Staffing a 24/7 SOC isn’t realistic, but the threats don’t take nights off. MDR is the team you can’t hire.
The SOC you can’t hireYou have analysts during business hours but nothing overnight or on weekends. MDR fills the after-hours gap so your in-house team isn’t paged at 3am for every alert.
Follow-the-sun coverageModern cyber-insurance policies and frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, NIST) increasingly require 24/7 monitoring as an explicit control. MDR satisfies the requirement and produces the audit-grade reporting.
Audit and insurance readySophos MDR can run on third-party telemetry, but the experience is best when MDR sits on top of the Sophos products that feed it.
The platform Sophos MDR runs on. If you want the MDR team working off the same console you investigate from, XDR is the natural pairing.
MDR’s richest signal comes from Sophos endpoint telemetry. Every Intercept X agent you deploy gives the MDR team another vantage point.
Network-side telemetry from your firewall feeds MDR’s correlation engine. Combined with endpoint data, MDR sees both sides of attacker activity.
Request per-user pricing for Sophos MDR, or talk to our team about which tier of MDR fits your environment best (Sophos has multiple tiers from monitor-only to full response).
