Concentrated threat intelligence: Sophos announces Sophos X-Ops. Sophos X-Ops combines SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI under one roof. Combination of three established Sophos cybersecurity expert teams helps companies to protect themselves even more effectively against cyber attacks.
Sophos announces Sophos X-Ops, a new cross-functional unit of SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI. The three established cybersecurity expert teams are being combined so that companies can be defended even more effectively against constantly changing and increasingly complex cyberattacks. Sophos X-Ops brings together the predictive, real-world, and deeply researched threat intelligence of all teams to collectively deliver stronger and more innovative protection, detection, and response capabilities.
At the start of a new study
Sophos also released today the study "OODA: Sophos X-Ops Takes on Burgeoning SQL Server Attacks". It deals with the increase in attacks on unpatched Microsoft SQL servers. Findings describe how attackers use a fake download site and gray market remote access tools to proliferate ransomware. Sophos X-Ops identified and thwarted the attacks by combining knowledge about the incidents, analyzing them and taking action. The expert teams have already actively exchanged information in the past. The step towards an integrated Sophos X-Ops team accelerates and streamlines the procedure to counter attackers who act just as quickly.
Sophos X-Ops Team acts faster
“Modern cybersecurity relies on highly interactive teamwork. With the further development of the industry, the necessary specializations in the areas of analysis, technology and investigations have become established. Scalable end-to-end operations require software developers, automation engineers, malware analysts, reverse engineers, cloud infrastructure engineers, incident responders, data engineers and scientists, and numerous other experts.
These in turn require an organizational structure that avoids silos. We have brought together three globally recognized and experienced teams within Sophos to provide this breadth of critical domain and process knowledge. Sophos X-Ops combines the strengths of all teams – including analysis of global telemetry data from more than 500.000 customers, threat detection, response and remediation capabilities, and artificial intelligence – to measurably improve threat detection and response,” says Joe Levy, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Sophos. "Modern attackers are often too well-organized and sophisticated to combat without the combined expertise and operational efficiencies of a joint task force like Sophos X-Ops."
Task Force Against Modern Attackers
“Effective cybersecurity requires solid collaboration at all levels, both internal and external. This is the only way that cybercriminals can be discovered, analyzed and combated quickly and on a large scale. Bringing the separate teams together in Sophos X-Ops shows that Sophos understands this principle and is ready to act on it,” said Michael Daniel, President and CEO, Cyber Threat Alliance.
Sophos X-Ops also provides a stronger cross-functional foundation for innovation, which is an essential component of cybersecurity due to the aggressive advances in organized cybercrime. By merging the expertise of the groups, Sophos is pioneering the concept of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security operations center (SOC) that anticipates security analyst predictions and deploys appropriate countermeasures. Sophos believes this approach in the SOC of the future will dramatically accelerate security operations and improve the ability to more quickly detect and respond to emerging signs of compromise.
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About Sophos More than 100 million users in 150 countries trust Sophos. We offer the best protection against complex IT threats and data loss. Our comprehensive security solutions are easy to deploy, use and manage. They offer the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. Sophos offers award-winning encryption solutions, security solutions for endpoints, networks, mobile devices, email and the web. In addition, there is support from SophosLabs, our worldwide network of our own analysis centers. The Sophos headquarters are in Boston, USA and Oxford, UK.