Sophos Intercept X beat four finalists to win CRN’s Tech Innovator Award for Best Endpoint Protection. This marks the fourth category win for Intercept X since its debut in 2018, and the eighth year in a row Sophos has been recognized by CRN as a Tech Innovator.
CRN Editors had to assess the merits of 254 product applicants across 37 categories to identify this year's Tech Innovators. Winners had to show technological ingenuity and ground-breaking functionality, while demonstrating the ability to address customer and partner needs.
Innovation in Endpoint Security
Sophos Intercept X, the industry’s most advanced endpoint security solution, is a first line of defense against cyberattacks, acting as a tripwire and a sentinel. It employs a comprehensive defense-in-depth approach to endpoint protection with multiple security layers that stop the broadest range of threats. Endpoint detection and response capabilities will categorize the attack and determine its direction, knowing which servers are targeted. Intercept X coordinates cyberdefense across endpoint, server, firewall, e-mail, mobile, and cloud. This allows Intercept X to analyze the threat holistically and enable threat hunting across product lines.
What Intercept X ties into provides depth to the defense. The product is powered by Sophos X-Ops, a cross-operational unit linking SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps, and Sophos AI. Cybersecurity experts in these three units work together to leverage predictive, real-time, real-world threat intelligence to help defend against even the most advanced threats.
Effective cyberdefense is a race against the attacker, measured in minutes. The joint task force linked by Sophos X-Ops uses its depth of knowledge, previous experience, and operational efficiency to proactively mitigate emerging threats and shut down a breach as soon as it is detected. The best part is customers can use as much or as little of this capability as needed to get results.
The Power of One for Partners
It was not enough for CRN to judge Intercept X on product merits alone. The editors considered the potential for partner business as well. Here, Sophos has the channel partner in mind.
Sophos offers the MSP Connect program to help partners find complementary products and services, which provides complete, simple security solutions across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments. Most importantly, partners get one security vendor, one profitable program, and one unified management console to manage all their customers and their Sophos products and services. That makes it easy for partners to sell, deploy, and manage Sophos cybersecurity offerings while growing revenue and lowering costs.
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