Sophos Endpoint

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Product

Sophos Endpoint is an endpoint protection and EDR product for organizations of all sizes, providing anti-ransomware, behavioral threat detection and exploit prevention for Windows, macOS and Linux. Sophos Endpoint is a unified Endpoint Protection and EDR solution built to defeat AI attacks. Sophos Endpoint matches the attack velocity, automatically blocking exploits, ransomware, and attacker techniques by default with zero tuning, stopping threats launched by either humans or Agentic AI tools. Sophos Endpoint feeds real-time threat and health telemetry into Sophos Fusion, where Synchronized Security™ turns a detection at one control point into a coordinated response at the others. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows and Windows Server.

Current Version: 2026.3.0.2090
Product Page: sophos.com/…/endpoint-security
Market: EnterpriseSMB
Licence: Paid
Price: Quote
Record Created: 2026-08-20
Last Updated: 2026-10-24

Vendor

Sophos was founded in 1985 by Jan Hruska and Peter Lammer, two Oxford doctoral students, and is still headquartered in Abingdon, outside Oxford. It listed in London in 2015 and was taken private in 2020 by Thoma Bravo, and in 2025 it acquired Secureworks, adding that company's managed detection business to its own. It sells to organisations, largely through resellers, and its two halves are endpoint and network. Sophos Intercept X is the endpoint product, Sophos Firewall the appliance line, and Sophos Central the single console that manages both — the integration between them is much of what it sells. Sophos MDR is the managed detection and response service, now the company's fastest-growing line with more than 40,000 customers, and Sophos XDR, Sophos Email and Sophos Backup and Recovery for M365 sit alongside. Sophos Home is the consumer product, and the free version is the one most individuals will have met. SophosLabs publishes its own threat research, and the company's products appear regularly in the public test cycles this index draws on. Vendor page →

Website: sophos.com
Country: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Abingdon, United Kingdom
Year Established: 1985
Customers: 625K organisations
Users: 100M users
Revenue: $1.0B (2023)

Platforms

Linux	native
macOS	native
Windows	native
Windows Server	native

Target Market

Enterprise secondarySMB secondary

Capabilities

Pricing

Plan	Licence	Priced per	Billed	Price
Summary	Price on request	not stated	no recurring charge	Quote

Versions

2026.3.0.2090Windows
2026.3Linux
2026.1.0.439macOS

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

AV-Comparatives Business Security Test

Tested: Windows2026-07-15lab report ↗

AV-TEST Antivirus Test

Tested: macOSlab report ↗

SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint ProtectionAAA

2026-06-30lab report ↗

SE Labs Small Business Endpoint ProtectionAAA

2026-06-30lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

AV-Comparatives Business Security TestAV-Comparatives Business Security Test — March–June 20262026-07-15

Protection Rate: 98.3%False Positives: 2

AV-Comparatives Business Security TestAV-Comparatives Business Security Test — August–November 20252025-12-15

Protection Rate: 98%False Positives: 5

AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for MacOS Tahoe - March 2026

Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6

AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for MacOS Tahoe - June 2026

Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6

AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for Windows 11 - June 2026

Protection: 6Performance: 5.5Usability: 6

AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for Windows 11 - August 2026

Protection: 6Performance: 5.5Usability: 6

SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint ProtectionEnterprise Endpoint Security 2026 Q2

AAAOverall 99Protection Accuracy: 98%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 99%

SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint ProtectionEnterprise Endpoint Security 2026 Q1

AAAOverall 99Protection Accuracy: 97%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 99%

SE Labs Small Business Endpoint ProtectionSMB Endpoint Security 2026 Q2

AAAOverall 99Protection Accuracy: 98%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 99%

SE Labs Small Business Endpoint ProtectionSMB Endpoint Security 2026 Q1

AAAOverall 99Protection Accuracy: 97%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 99%

Certifications

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported

OPSWAT Certified Security ApplicationGold1 activeGold

Change History

This record was created 2026-08-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

2026-10-24New versionNew version: 2026.3.0.2090 (Windows)evidence
2026-10-09Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Business Security Test resultevidence
2026-10-09Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Business Security Test resultevidence
2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Small Business Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Enterprise Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Small Business Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
2026-09-30Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
2026-09-28New versionNew version: 2026.2.2.1.0 (Windows)evidence
2026-09-23New versionNew version: 2026.2.1.3.0 (Windows)evidence
2026-09-23Capability addedCentral Management Console: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedVulnerability Shielding: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedHeuristic Detection: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedDevice Control: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedWeb Protection: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
2026-09-23Platform addedRuns on Windows Serverevidence
2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Enterprise Antimalwareevidence
2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Small Business Antimalwareevidence
2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
2026-09-20New versionNew version: 2026.2.1.3 (Windows)evidence
2026-09-20New versionNew version: 2026.3 (Linux)evidence
2026-09-19Platform addedRuns on Linuxevidence
2026-09-19Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
2026-09-19Product updatedNo longer sold to: Consumerevidence
2026-09-19Product updatedAlso sold to: SMBevidence
2026-09-19Pricing plan addedPrice: price on requestevidence
2026-09-18Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
2026-09-17Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
2026-09-09New versionNew version: 2026.1.0.439 (macOS)evidence
2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
2026-08-20Capability addedBehavioral Detection: built inevidence
2026-08-20Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Enterpriseevidence
2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Consumerevidence
2026-08-20New versionNew version: 2026.1.0.439evidence
2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence

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Malware Detectionkey	native
Ransomware Protectionkey	native
Behavioral Detectionkey	native
Web Protectionkey	native
Email Protection	Not known
Host Firewall	Not known
Sandbox Analysis	Not known
Cloud-Assisted Scanning	Not known
Heuristic Detection	native
Device Control	native
Vulnerability Shielding	native
Central Management Console	native