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Eventually, channel partners have grown today including ransomware, network breaches,
and are playing the role of trusted security hands-on keyboard adversaries, and more –
advisors to their customers. It means they are within minutes. It uses machine learning with
playing the role of a consultant who human analysis for an evolved, innovative
understands clients' environment and other approach to proactive security protection.
parameters and suggests the best solutions
while providing all the necessary support to DTM: Sophos plans to further the concept
achieve the desired objective. of cybersecurity as a service through its
DTM: Cybersecurity as a service is the new channel partner community.
buzz in the industry. How do you see the Please elaborate more on the same.
trend gaining prominence in the next Sophos MDR is now available to Sophos' global
five years? channel of reseller partners and MSPs. It
It is not a buzzword but an actual need that provides a tremendous opportunity for partners
addresses two major problems: cyberattacks to grow their businesses without risky and
and the cybersecurity skills gap. extensive investment in developing proprietary
Cyberattacks have become so complex that or hybrid tools and expertise, which is hard to
organizations cannot do it alone. On top of it, attract, train, and retain.
organizations are struggling with the Sophos remains committed to MSPs and MSSPs
cybersecurity skills gap, which in turn is helping
cybercriminals to launch sophisticated and continues to support their efforts to build
cyberattacks. and differentiate their business. With Sophos
MDR, they can increase their breadth of security
Few organizations have the right tools, people, offerings, preserve best-in-industry margins
and processes in-house to effectively manage
and exceed customer expectations.
security operations around the clock while
proactively defending against new and Sophos recognizes that a vast majority of
emerging threats. Cybercriminals are “always- partners don't have security operations centers
on,” and security operations teams need to be (SOCs) or the expertise themselves, yet the
as well. demand for managed security services
continues to grow. Sophos enables partners to
Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service
through Sophos Managed Detection & start or expand their MSP services, providing
Response (MDR) service- an industry-leading partners with the tools, training, and service
managed detection and response service with offerings to do so.
more than 12,000 customers globally. It extends Sophos MDR is customizable with different
24x7 threat hunting, detection, and response service tiers and threat response options to
delivered by an expert team as a fully managed meet the unique and evolving needs of partners.
service. Even MSSPs that already provide MDR services
The Sophos MDR operations team can rapidly will find Sophos MDR effective because they can
identify and neutralize complex attacks – outsource a piece from Sophos, which could be
more cost-effective and faster to implement.
October 2022
