Sophos takes over Braintrace and strengthens its adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem with network detection and response technology (NDR). With the purchase, Sophos adds a new source of threat intelligence to its rapidly growing managed threat response and rapid response services, as well as its XDR technology and data lake.
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced the acquisition of Braintrace to further strengthen its adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem with Braintrace's proprietary Network Detection and Response (NDR) technology. This provides deep insights into network traffic patterns, including encrypted traffic, without the need for man-in-the-middle decryption.
Reinforcement of the rapid response team
As part of the acquisition, Braintrace developers, data scientists and security analysts have joined Sophos’s global managed threat response (MTR) and rapid response teams. This service business from Sophos has developed rapidly and is establishing the company as one of the largest and fastest growing MDR (Managed Detection and Response) providers worldwide with more than 5.000 active Sophos MTR customers.
Braintrace's NDR technology supports MTR and rapid response analysts from Sophos as well as XDR (Extended Detection and Response) customers through integration into the “Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem” on which all Sophos products and services are based. The technology will also serve as the basis for collecting and forwarding third-party event data from firewalls, proxies, VPNs and other sources. This added visibility and event correlation enables vastly improved threat detection, detection, and response to suspicious activity.
NDR - building block of the future
NDR technology is a key component in defending against cyber attacks today and in the future. The Sophos MTR team is consistently involved in cybersecurity incidents that show how attackers are aggressively and continuously changing their tactics to avoid detection and successfully carry out their attacks. Braintrace technology helps detect malicious command and control traffic from malware such as ColbatStrike, BazaLoader and TrickBot, as well as zero days, which can lead to ransomware and other attacks. This visibility enables threat hunters and analysts to anticipate any potential ransomware attack, including recent REvil and DarkSide attacks. Sophos plans to roll out Braintrace's NDR technology for MTR and XDR in the first half of 2022.
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