Sophos named leader in IDC MarketScape 2024 for MDR services

Sophos has announced its recognition as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: European Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services for 2024 Vendor Assessment.

The IDC MarketScape evaluates the products and business strategies of MDR vendors. Additionally, Sophos has been named a leader in three other worldwide IDC MarketScape 2024 reports.

The additional distinctions include the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses 2024 Vendor Assessment, the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Small Businesses 2024 Vendor Assessment, and the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Detection and Response (MDR) 2024 Vendor Assessment.

With over 23,000 MDR customers globally, Sophos includes more than 5,000 in Europe. The company's extensive customer base helps build a repository of real-time intelligence, benefiting all clients. This enables Sophos's team of cybersecurity and threat intelligence experts to monitor, investigate, and respond to threats around the clock.

The IDC MarketScape report on worldwide MDR services noted, "Sophos MDR has expanded its detection capabilities beyond their Sophos products. Data is collected from third-party alert sources across multiple domains, which include but are not limited to endpoint, firewall, cloud, and identity."

Rob Harrison, Senior Vice President for Endpoint and Security Operations Product Management at Sophos, commented on the company's unique offering. "Sophos' MDR offering is unique as at the very core of it is human-led threat response which utilises telemetry from third-party security technologies as well as Sophos's own security products. This ensures that Sophos MDR can continually adapt and grow as threats develop and enables us to quickly detect and remediate attacks regardless of customers' existing security solutions," he said.

Harrison added, "We believe this recognition from the IDC MarketScape reaffirms our commitment to protect small and midsize businesses. We're proud to be valued for the security solutions we provide to defend organisations from cybercrime."

The company's midmarket standing is significant, with over two-thirds of its MDR customer base consisting of organisations with up to 250 employees, and nearly a fifth in the 250 to 999 employee segment. Richard Thurston, Research Manager for European Security Services at IDC, remarked on Sophos's expertise, "With decades of experience and knowledge, Sophos has considerable expertise when it comes to how cyberattacks impact and unfold across enterprise infrastructure. Sophos has put significant emphasis on building teams of highly experienced and skilled security analysts and built its MDR business on the back of a strong technology platform."

Thurston added, "Where organisations are seeking an MDR provider with deep security expertise and a human-led service that engages with them from the outset until an incident has been resolved, Sophos represents a compelling option."

Sophos's managed security service portfolio – including Sophos MDR, Sophos Intercept X, Sophos XDR, and Sophos Firewall – is part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem. These services share real-time threat intelligence for faster and more contextual and synchronised protection, detection, and response. They are powered by Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence, which includes over 500 security experts within SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps, and SophosAI.

The company's solutions are managed through the cloud-native Sophos Central platform, where users can oversee installations, respond to alerts, and track licenses and renewal dates from a single interface.