For
the third consecutive year, Sophos has been named a leader in the IDC
MarketScape: Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) for Small and Midsize
Businesses. The IDC MarketScape evaluated 18 vendors based on how their device
management and security capabilities meet the needs of small and midsize organisations.
Sophos believes that one of the key
contributors to its position is how its UEM offering uniquely ties into Sophos
XDR. By storing mobile events and information inside the Sophos XDR data lake,
customers benefit from enhanced visibility into events taking place across
their environment.
All this information is stored
side-by-side with each of Sophos’ XDR-enabled products – endpoint, server,
firewall, email, and cloud security – allowing customers to surface suspicious
activity and investigate it across the entire estate.
Through integration with workflow
automation tools, Sophos UEM can also drive automated response actions,
allowing UEM to be utilised as an enforcement point to remediate detected
breaches, suspicious activity, or detected malware on devices.
The IDC MarketScape noted, “With a
core focus on the SMBs and midmarket enterprises, Sophos’ broad portfolio of
cybersecurity, networking, and analytics products offers customers a broad
range of integration opportunities with its UEM product, strengthening the
management offering as part of a larger Sophos security/management platform.”
Sophos Central is Sophos’ unified
cybersecurity platform, enabling customers to manage and secure their devices
side-by-side with each of the company’s other next-gen protection solutions.
Consolidation into a single cloud platform helps improve cross estate
visibility and security whilst reducing admin efforts.
“We are honoured to be a distributor
of Sophos technology in South Africa. By aligning ourselves with vendors
focused on providing customer-centric products, we can provide our client base
with best practice in endpoint management technology,” says Ross Anderson,
Sophos Product Development Manager at Duxbury Networking.