We’re delighted to announce that Sophos has been named a Chief within the IDC MarketScape: European Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Companies 2024 Vendor Evaluation (doc # EUR151172124, September 2024).
The IDC MarketScape research evaluates the capabilities and enterprise methods of managed detection and response service distributors with a market presence in Europe, and positions Sophos within the Leaders Class.
This newest recognition follows Sophos being named an MDR Chief within the Worldwide model of this analysis – IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Companies 2024 Vendor Evaluation (doc #US49006922, April 2024).
With many years of expertise and data as a safety expertise vendor, Sophos has appreciable experience relating to how cyberattacks affect and unfold throughout enterprise infrastructure. Because the launch of its MDR ambitions with a sequence of acquisitions in 2019, the seller has additionally put appreciable emphasis on constructing groups of extremely skilled and expert safety analysts to ship its human-led service. The corporate’s unmetered and limitless incident response providing is a compelling part of this. The place organizations are in search of an MDR supplier with deep safety experience and a human-led service that engages with them from the outset till an incident has been resolved, Sophos represents a compelling choice.
– IDC MarketScape: European Managed Detection and Response 2024 Vendor Evaluation
A European MDR market chief
Sophos has constructed one of many largest world managed detection and response (MDR) companies on this planet, and we consider it protects extra prospects than another MDR service. This newest IDC MarketScape report famous Sophos “has greater than 23,000 MDR prospects worldwide, making it one of many largest gamers in the marketplace by way of buyer base. In Europe, it counted greater than 5,000 distinctive MDR prospects on the finish of 2023, with the bulk being under-250-employee organizations.”
The IDC MarketScape analysis additionally highlights Sophos’ geographic presence in supporting European information residency necessities:
Concerning information residency, Sophos processes telemetry within the area during which the client account is provisioned. For Europe, Sophos is hosted within the UK & Eire, and Germany AWS areas.
Sophos MDR has extremely expert menace analysts primarily based within the UK, Eire, and Germany, along with devoted groups in North America, India, and Australia. This allows us to offer 24/7/365 protection to our European prospects.
Limitless incident response is a major differentiator
The IDC MarketScape notes {that a} key differentiator for any MDR service is its incident response capabilities, and we agree. The 2 MDR service tiers out there from Sophos – MDR Full and MDR Necessities – are designed to align with the client maturity journey. Sophos MDR Full features a distinctive, unmetered, full-scale incident response providing that eliminates threats.
Prospects subscribing to the entry-level Sophos MDR Necessities service tier additionally profit from a versatile vary of incident response choices, as described within the IDC MarketScape report:
MDR Necessities prospects get a Menace Response service, which commits to stopping and containing all energetic assaults. MDR Necessities prospects may additionally select to buy an IR retainer for the additional protection on prime of the core service elements they obtain. Because of this prospects that begin out with MDR Necessities however determine they need or want extra have two choices: add the IR retainer or improve to the total MDR Full service (with all the extra elements that brings).
Each service tiers embody 24/7 expert-led investigation and response and menace searching.
Intensive partnerships, alliances, and integrations
The IDC MarketScape calls out Sophos’ strategic partnership with Tenable for Sophos Managed Threat, our new vulnerability and assault floor administration service, and our partnership with backup supplier Veeam, citing the advantages of our substantial companion and buyer overlap.
The report famous,
In April 2024, Sophos introduced a strategic partnership with Tenable to launch Sophos Managed Threat, a vulnerability and assault floor administration service. With a devoted Sophos group leveraging Tenable’s publicity administration expertise the businesses purpose to drive collaborative operation between MDR and vulnerability administration. With in depth reporting and prioritization round vulnerabilities, this could assist type sign from noise and tackle use instances reminiscent of threat mitigation via assault floor visibility, patch prioritization, and speedy identification of latest dangers via alerts round new essential vulnerabilities.
The IDC MarketScape report states that Sophos has “labored on quite a few use instances round Microsoft telemetry, reminiscent of electronic mail compromise, because it goals to ship concrete safety advantages to its shoppers.”
Reinforcing our credentials within the small enterprise phase the place many organizations use Google productiveness options fairly than Microsoft, Sophos additionally consists of an integration with Google Workspace with Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR choices at no extra price.
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To be taught extra about why Sophos was named a Chief within the 2024 IDC MarketScape for European Managed Detection and Response, learn the excerpt right here.
Extra buyer and analyst validation
Sophos’ recognition as a Chief on this 2024 IDC MarketScape for European Managed Detection and Response Companies comes on the heels of a number of buyer endorsements and third-party validations for Sophos MDR, together with:
