Sophos has expanded its offering of products and services protection for hybrid work with the solution Workspace Protectionwhich also offers employees of companies that use it different options to manage the use of emerging technologies, among which is AI. The company’s clients and partners will have access to it starting next February.
Built around Sophos Protected Browser, and powered by Island, the solution enables businesses to protect applications, data, users and guests; regardless of the point from which the work is carried out. This offers a unified approach to securing the workspace.
Compared to traditional approaches to protecting hybrid work, which include deploying multiple cloud-based SASE and SSE solutions that require significant infrastructure and can increase costs and complexity, Sophos Workspace Protection directly protects the workspace.
This eliminates the need to reroute traffic through centralized infrastructure, reducing operational burden and costs. Meanwhile, it allows you to use protections that follow users, applications, their Internet use and their data, no matter where they work from. Thus, companies can protect hybrid work with fewer complications and regardless of their level of security maturity.
The Sophos Workspace Protection hub includes Sophos Protected Browser, powered by Island and designed to integrate with the Sophos Central platform. It is a secure Chromium-based enterprise browser that offers controls over application usage, local data management, and web filtering. Supports SSH and RDP access for remote administration.
This tool, developed to respond to security problems at the point of work, offers companies visibility and control at the workspace level. Thus, it helps protect sensitive data, manage access to applications and apply policies directly in the browser.
By incorporating security controls into a familiar user experience, Sohphos Workspace Protection makes it easy to protect your work in both enterprise and remote environments. It is a flexible package of integrated components, which companies can deploy together or separately, depending on their security and operations needs.
These components, in addition to the Sophos Protected Browser enterprise browser, are Sophos ZTNA and Sophos DNS Protection. In addition, the solution also offers an email monitoring system, as a complement that is deployed alongside Google or Microsoft services, and is responsible for controlling email traffic. This offers additional detection of unwanted or malicious messages, such as phishing attempts.
As to Sophos ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access)offers secure access to private applications based on the state of the device. In this way, it only authorizes the connection of users with permission to do so, as well as compatible devices, while keeping Internet applications hidden. Sophos DNS Protection is a cloud DNS security service, designed for implementation on individual Windows terminals. It offers an additional layer of web and phishing protection by blocking malicious or unwanted domains.
