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Sophos Firewall v21.5 early access is now available
We’re pleased to announce that the early access program (EAP) is now underway for the latest Sophos Firewall release. This update brings exciting industry-first enhancements and top-requested features, including… Sophos NDR Essentials integration Set up and monitor NDR Essentials threat feeds under the Active Threat Response menu. Sophos Firewall customers with Xstream Protection now get…
It takes two: The 2025 Sophos Active Adversary Report
The Sophos Active Adversary Report celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The report grew out of a simple question: What happens after attackers breach a company? Knowing the adversary’s playbook, after all, helps defenders better battle an active attack. (There’s a reason we started life as “The Active Adversary Playbook.”) At the same time we…
Sophos MDR tracks two ransomware campaigns using “email bombing,” Microsoft Teams “vishing”
Sophos X-Ops’ Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is actively responding to incidents tied to two separate groups of threat actors, each of which have used the functionality of Microsoft’s Office 365 platform to gain access to targeted organizations with the likely goal of stealing data and deploying ransomware. Sophos MDR began investigating these two separate…
The Bite from Inside: The Sophos Active Adversary Report
It’s not news that 2024 has been a tumultuous year on many fronts. For our second Active Adversary Report of 2024, we’re looking specifically at patterns and developments we noted during the first half of the year (1H24). Though the year itself was in many ways unremarkable on the surface for those charged with the…