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Sophos adds cloud visibility features from Cloud Optix to Intercept X Advanced for Server with EDR


Johannesburg, 26 Aug 2020

Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cyber security, today announced that Intercept X for Server Advanced with EDR has been enhanced with powerful cloud visibility features from Cloud Optix. This integration gives customers critical insights into their wider cloud environments, including security groups, hosts, shared storage, databases, serverless, containers and more, in addition to the details on AWS, Azure and GCP cloud workloads.

“Intercept X Advanced for Server with EDR and Intercept X Advanced with EDR give organisations unparalleled visibility and protection across their cloud, on-premises and virtual estates. Cloud Optix shines a spotlight on complete cloud environments, showing what’s there, what needs securing, and making sure that everything stays safe and secure,” said Richard Beckett, public cloud senior product marketing manager at Sophos. “The dynamic nature of cloud environments – with assets being spun up and down as and when necessary to meet changing demands – can make security and compliance assessments time-consuming. In many cases, organisations need to login to multiple consoles and manually collate information to get a full picture. With Sophos, it’s easy as organisations get details about the entire cloud infrastructure across different public cloud providers on one screen, in a single management console, and can dive directly into assets to get more detail about the organisation’s asset inventory and cloud security posture.”

Key features:

Cloud asset inventory – See a detailed inventory of your entire cloud infrastructure (eg, cloud hosts, serverless functions, S3 buckets, databases and cloud workloads), eliminating the need for time-consuming manual collation.

Access and traffic anomaly detection – Unusual login attempts and suspicious traffic patterns are automatically detected and blocked or flagged to the admin as appropriate.

Security scans – Daily and on-demand scans monitor your cloud environment to ensure its ongoing security. Issues are automatically resolved where possible, with admin notification if manual intervention is required.

Configuration guardrails – Stop accidental or malicious tampering with configurations that could negatively impact security posture.

Compliance policies – Ensure your cloud environment conforms to Center for Internet Security (CIS) best practices, helping keep your security posture at its best.

Alert management integrations – Receive e-mail notifications when manual intervention is required.

Powerful visibility and protection for every set-up

This exciting new cloud functionality is available to all Intercept X Advanced for Server with EDR customers at no additional cost. Login to your Sophos Central console, select Cloud Optix, and you can get started right away.

Current customers using Sophos Central that would like to try out this new functionality – in addition to the recently released EDR IT operations and threat hunting capabilities – can start a trial from within the Sophos Central console.

If you don’t have a Sophos Central account, you can register for a trial on Sophos.com.

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As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-powered solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cyberattack techniques, including ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, active-adversary breaches, phishing, and more. Sophos Central, a cloud-native management platform, integrates Sophos’ entire portfolio of next-generation products, including the Intercept X endpoint solution and the XG next-generation firewall, into a single “synchronized security” system accessible through a set of APIs. Sophos has been driving a transition to next-generation cybersecurity, leveraging advanced capabilities in cloud, machine learning, APIs, automation, managed threat response, and more, to deliver enterprise-grade protection to any size organization. Sophos sells its products and services exclusively through a global channel of more than 53,000 partners and managed service providers (MSPs). Sophos also makes its innovative commercial technologies available to consumers via Sophos Home. The company is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Editorial contacts

Jitendra Bulani
PR Manager, Middle East and Africa
Jitendra.Bulani@Sophos.com