Not sure where you fit?
Most environments don’t fit neatly into a single bucket. Talk to us about your specific situation - the industry, the size, the use case, the compliance constraints - and we’ll recommend the right stack.
Most security buyers don’t shop by product category - they shop by problem. Ransomware defense. Compliance readiness. M&A consolidation. Multi-site rollouts. This page maps the Sophos platform to the situations IT teams actually face, with the recommended product stack for each.
Each industry has its own threats, compliance requirements, and operational patterns. These are the verticals our engineering team has the deepest experience with.
HIPAA-aligned controls, medical-device segmentation, ransomware-resistant clinical systems, and audit-grade logging across hospital and clinic networks.
Healthcare solutions →PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and cyber-insurance-aligned security stacks for banks, credit unions, brokerages, and insurance carriers. Outbound DLP and audit retention built in.
Finance solutions →K-12 and post-secondary stacks: content filtering, secure Wi-Fi at scale, BYOD-friendly access controls, and ransomware-resistant SIS / LMS infrastructure.
Education solutions →Federal, provincial, and municipal IT environments. CMMC and NIST CSF alignment, segmented operational networks, and audit-grade reporting for elected officials and oversight bodies.
Government solutions →OT/IT segmentation, secure remote access for plant systems, ransomware protection for production-critical workloads, and supply-chain attack defenses.
Manufacturing solutions →Multi-site rollouts, guest Wi-Fi with captive portal, PCI-compliant POS networks, and central management for franchise-scale chains.
Retail solutions →These are the security projects we see come across the desk most often. Each one maps to a specific stack of Sophos products plus the services that make them work.
Layered protection from email through endpoint to network. Intercept X with CryptoGuard, Sophos Email filtering, Phish Threat training, and MDR backing it all up. The full stack against the most-feared business risk.
End-to-end ransomware postureHIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, NIST CSF, CMMC. XDR with Next-Gen SIEM for long retention, MDR for monitoring, ITDR for identity controls, and the audit-grade reporting frameworks expect.
Audit-ready evidenceAcquisitions mean two of everything. We consolidate firewall, endpoint, and email stacks onto Sophos with phased migration plans that don’t leave either side undefended during cutover.
One stack, post-mergerA 30-person company doesn’t need the same stack as a 3,000-person enterprise. These are the typical recommendations by size.
Endpoint Protection, Sophos Firewall, DNS Protection, and Sophos MDR. The full security stack with someone else watching it at night, sized for a team where IT is a few generalists.
Adds XDR, ITDR, and Workspace Protection bundle. A small in-house security team with MDR for after-hours coverage. Compliance reporting starts mattering at this size; SIEM may be appropriate.
The full Sophos platform with XDR + Next-Gen SIEM, Cloud Workload Protection, and MDR. Often paired with an internal SOC, custom integrations, and multi-region deployments.
Most environments don’t fit neatly into a single bucket. Talk to us about your specific situation - the industry, the size, the use case, the compliance constraints - and we’ll recommend the right stack.