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Looking to Compare Sophos with Trend Micro?
Sophos provides comprehensive protection to reduce security incidents, alerts, and response time. We also help organizations consolidate their cybersecurity spending, minimize their management burden, and speed up their incident response time.
Sophos vs. Trend Micro
| FEATURES | Sophos | Trend Micro |
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| Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution |
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| Attack surface reduction, with multiple technologies for web protection, application control, and device control that eliminate attack vectors and protect against data loss | ||
| Strong protection by default without configuration | Partially provided | |
| Defenses that automatically adapt to human-led attacks | Not provided | |
| Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture | Not provided | |
| A Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products | Not provided | |
| Automatic document rollback after encryption by ransomware | (Limitation of 10MB file size for rollback) | |
| Management, Investigation, and Remediation |
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| Single console for management, reporting, and security operations | Not provided | |
| Alert triage and assistance | Partially provided | |
| Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities | ||
| Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC | ||
| Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC | ||
| Threat Hunting and Response |
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| Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality | ||
| Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment, correlate information, and pivot between endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, public cloud, and Microsoft 365 data | Partially provided | |
| MDR service provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and unlimited remediation to organizations of all sizes, with support available over the phone or through email | Partially provided | |
| Incident response included in top MDR tier | (Optional IR Retainer for lower MDR tiers) | Not provided |
| Integration with third-party security control to leverage your existing security investments, gain full visibility into your environment, and provide detections and alerts to your team and the MDR team | Partially provided (Third party integrations apply only to XDR, not MDR) | |
| Monitor and generate detections across your third-party security controls and data sources | Not provided | |
| Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR) | Not provided |
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Adaptive Attack Protection is a dynamic step up in endpoint security. When a hands-on-keyboard attack is detected, Sophos Endpoint automatically activates extra defenses based on a "shields up" perspective. It stops an attacker and provides you with time to respond. For more information, watch the Adaptive Attack Protection video.
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A Unified Security Ecosystem
Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, cloud security, and third-party security controls in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem and single management console that Trend Micro can't match. All of your Sophos products are continuously optimized with real-time threat intelligence and operational insights from Sophos X-Ops.
