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84% of MSPs expect rising demand for CISO services, against increasing complex security environments and AI risks, New Sophos Research Finds

News Desk 16/09/2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today released its 2026 MSP Perspectives Report, revealing that managed service providers (MSPs) are playing an increasingly strategic role in helping organizations manage cyber risk. Traditionally responsible for deploying, managing and supporting IT and

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Sophos to Showcase AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense at GISEC 2026

News Desk 07/09/2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, has announced its participation at GISEC Global 2026 (16-18 September) at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City. The company will showcase how organizations can strengthen cyber resilience in an AI-enabled threat landscape where attacks are becoming faster, more coordinated, and difficult to manage with disconnected security tools. The

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Identity-Based Attacks Are Responsible for 85% of Ransomware in Education, Sophos Report Finds

News Desk 01/09/2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today released its annual State of Ransomware in Education 2026 report, which found that identity-based attack techniques were used in 85% of ransomware attacks against education institutions. Those techniques include malicious email, phishing, compromised credentials and brute force attacks. The 85% rate exceeded the cross-sector

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AI Is Compressing Cyberattack Timelines and Targeting Ungoverned AI Identities, Sophos AI Security Report Finds

News Desk 28/07/2026

Sophos today released its AI Security 2026 Report, finding that attackers are operationalizing artificial intelligence (AI) to collapse attack workflows from weeks to days. The report finds that AI’s most immediate impact on cybercrime is speed, as well as a rise in attacks using identity as the primary initial access vector (IAV), rather than inventing […]

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79% of Ransomware Attacks Now Originate from Compromised Identities, Sophos Report Finds

News Desk 21/07/2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today released its seventh annual State of Ransomware report, a vendor-agnostic survey of IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries including the UAE, identifying the impact of ransomware on businesses and how prepared organizations are to defend against them. This year’s report reveals that globally identity is the

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Sophos Launches Sophos Fusion, the Industry’s First and Most Complete AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System

News Desk 15/07/2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Sophos Fusion, the industry’s most complete AI-native cybersecurity defense system, built to deliver a coordinated response to AI-era threats.   A cybersecurity defense system is an emerging category in the industry: a single, open architecture where every control point, every service, every data source, and every

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Sophos Appoints Naveed Malik to Accelerate and Scale Its EMEA MSP Partner Ecosystem

News Desk 07/07/2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced the appointment of Naveed Malik as Senior Director, EMEA MSP Channel Sales. In this role, he will lead Sophos’ EMEA MSP partner strategy, focused on accelerating MSP growth and scaling recurring revenue through managed services-based cybersecurity partners.   “I build and scale partner ecosystems that deliver

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Sophos’ Agentic SOC Compresses Threat Response to 89 Seconds

News Desk 02/06/2026

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced production results from a full year of agentic operation inside Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR), now defending 40,000 customers worldwide at 39% growth year-over-year. The results define what an agentic Security Operations Center (SOC) looks like at scale.   The volume of telemetry, complexity of the

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Sophos Appoints Hussain Salman as Enterprise Services Director for the Gulf Region

News Desk 22/04/2026

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced the appointment of Hussain Salman as Enterprise Services Director for the Gulf Region, where he will lead across the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. With the region consistently ranking among the world’s most targeted regions for cyberattacks, cybersecurity has

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Only 5% of organizations have full trust in their cybersecurity vendors

News Desk 01/04/2026

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today released findings from a global, vendor-agnostic study (based on responses from 5,000 organizations across 17 countries), examining one of cybersecurity’s most urgent and overlooked necessities: trust. The Cybersecurity Trust Reality 2026 report is one of the most comprehensive

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Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026: Identity attacks dominate as threat groups proliferate

News Desk 25/02/2026

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today released the 2026 Sophos Active Adversary Report. It reveals that 67% of all incidents investigated by Sophos Incident Response (IR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) teams last year were rooted in identity-related attacks. The findings highlight how attackers continue to

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Sophos Acquires Arco Cyber to Bring CISO-Level, Agentic AI-Powered Expertise to Every Organization

News Desk 11/02/2026

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced it has acquired UK-based Arco Cyber, a cybersecurity assurance company dedicated to helping organizations improve their security posture while staying ahead of compliance requirements and emerging threats.   The acquisition is an important step in Sophos’ strategy to

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Sophos Expands Portfolio with Workspace Protection to Secure Hybrid Work and Govern Employee AI Use

News Desk 21/01/2026

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced Sophos Workspace Protection, expanding its portfolio to help organizations secure hybrid work and govern the use of emerging technologies, including AI. Built around the Sophos Protected Browser, powered by Island, the solution enables organizations to protect applications,

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Sophos XDR delivers 100% detection coverage in the latest MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation

News Desk 16/12/2025

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced its best-ever results in the MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise 2025 Evaluation. Sophos XDR detected 100% of adversary behaviors (sub-steps)1 across two complex attack scenarios: Scattered Spider, which Sophos X-Ops tracks as GOLD HARVEST, a financially motivated cybercriminal

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Sophos Report: Manufacturing Industry Blocks More Ransomware Attempts, While Adversaries Shift to Data Theft

News Desk 08/12/2025

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced new findings from the Sophos State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2025 report. The study reveals that manufacturers are stopping more ransomware attacks before data can be encrypted; however, adversaries are increasingly stealing data and using extortion-only

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Sophos Showcases Identity Threat Detection and Response and Advanced Cybersecurity Capabilities at Black Hat MEA 2025

News Desk 26/11/2025

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today, announced its participation at Black Hat MEA 2025, taking place from December 2-4 at RECC Malham. At the event, Sophos will showcase the integration of Taegis (Secureworks) XDR and MDR and next-generation SIEM capabilities within Sophos Central, delivering a unified platform for

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Sophos Integrates Advanced Cyber Intelligence into Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot

News Desk 19/11/2025

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced the general availability of new integrations that connect Sophos Intelix, its robust repository of cyber threat intelligence, with Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Introduced at the Microsoft Ignite Conference in San Francisco, organizations of all

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More than Half (58%) of Retailers hit by Ransomware Pay the Ransom

News Desk 10/11/2025

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today released its fifth annual Sophos State of Ransomware in Retail report, a vendor-agnostic survey of IT and cybersecurity leaders across 16 countries. This year’s report reveals that nearly half (46%) of retail ransomware incidents were traced to an unknown security gap, underscoring

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Sophos Launches ITDR to Protect Against Growing Identity-Based Attacks

PR News Desk 24/10/2025

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced the launch of Sophos Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). This new solution for Sophos XDR and Sophos MDR continuously monitors customer environments for identity risks and misconfigurations and scans the dark web for compromised credentials. It enables

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Sophos Highlights AI-Driven Cybersecurity and MDR Solutions at GITEX Global 2025

PR News Desk 29/09/2025

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today, announced its participation at GITEX Global 2025, taking place from October 13–17 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. At the event, Sophos will showcase its advanced innovations such as Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Active Threat Response and the new Sophos Endpoint—now