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Prevent Breaches, Ransomware, and Data Loss with Sophos
Sophos provides comprehensive protection to reduce security incidents and alerts and deliver faster responses. We also help organizations consolidate their cybersecurity spending, minimize management burden, and speed up incident response time.
Intuitive Management
We provide one location where you can manage your policies, view alerts, and detect and respond to threats across your security operations.
Intuitive Management
Sophos Central is a cloud-based management console that allows you to manage all of your Sophos products in one place and hunt for and investigate threats. The Account Health Check within Sophos Central helps you identify and address security issues. ESET's tasks, triggers, and policy settings mean more work for administrators, a greater chance of inadvertently applying the wrong settings, and slower troubleshooting.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Cybercriminals don't just attack endpoints. Get the full picture with Sophos. ESET does not offer network or email security, leaving major gaps in the overall security posture of an organization.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, and cloud security, as well as third-party security controls, in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem. Sophos Central is a single management console built for organizations of all sizes and capabilities. You can manage your security on your own, or Sophos MDR can detect, investigate, and respond to threats for you.
Context-Sensitive Defenses
Don't let attackers live off your land. Sophos adapts its defenses based on the context of the device. ESET does not.
Context-Sensitive Defenses
When Sophos detects a hands-on-keyboard attack, we automatically activate extra defenses on the endpoint with a "shields up" approach. Sophos Adaptive Attack Protection blocks suspicious activities like downloads of remote admin tools, disrupting the attack and giving your team valuable time to respond.
Sophos vs. ESET
| FEATURES | Sophos | ESET |
| Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution | ||
| Attack surface reduction, with multiple technologies for web protection, application control, and device control that eliminate attack vectors and protect against data loss | Partially provided | |
| Strong protection by default without configuration | Partially provided | |
| Defenses that automatically adapt to human-led attacks |
Not provided |
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| Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture |
Not provided |
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| A Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products |
Not provided |
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| Automatic document rollback after encryption by ransomware |
Not provided |
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| Management, Investigation, and Remediation | ||
| Single console for management, reporting, and security operations | Partially provided | |
| Alert triage and assistance | Partially provided | |
| Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities | Partially provided | |
| Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC | Partially provided | |
| Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC | Partially provided | |
| Threat Hunting and Response | ||
| Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality | ||
| Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment, correlate information, and pivot between endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, public cloud, and Microsoft 365 data | Partially provided | |
| MDR service provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and unlimited remediation to organizations of all sizes, with support available over the phone or through email | Partially provided | |
| Incident response included in top MDR tier |
(Optional IR Retainer for lower MDR tiers) |
Not provided |
| Integration with third-party security control to leverage your existing security investments, gain full visibility into your environment, and provide detections and alerts to your team and the MDR team |
Not provided |
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| Monitor and generate detections across your third-party security controls and data sources |
Not provided |
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| Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR) |
Not provided |
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Adaptive Attack Protection
Adaptive Attack Protection is a dynamic step up in endpoint security. When a hands-on-keyboard attack is detected, Sophos Endpoint automatically activates extra defenses based on a "shields up" perspective. It stops an attacker and provides you with time to respond. For more information, watch the Adaptive Attack Protection video.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, and cloud security and third-party security controls in an Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem that ESET can't match. All Sophos products are continuously optimized with real-time threat intelligence and operational insights from Sophos X-Ops.