Sophos Workspace Protection takes a different approach by protecting workspaces directly, eliminating the need to backhaul traffic through centralized infrastructure.
Sophos, Introducing Sophos Workspace Protection, a global leader in innovative security solutions to thwart cyber-attacks, expanding its portfolio to help organizations secure hybrid work and manage the use of emerging technologies such as AI. Built around Sophos Protected Browser powered by Island, this solution enables organizations to protect applications, data, users, and guests wherever work takes place, while providing a unified approach to securing modern workspaces.
Rethinking security for hybrid work
Traditional approaches to securing hybrid work, such as deploying multiple SASE and SSE solutions delivered in the cloud, often require extensive infrastructure, expertise, and ongoing operational overhead to deploy and manage. These models can increase cost and complexity while leaving gaps in visibility and control of where modern work is being done.
Sophos Workspace Protection takes a different approach by protecting workspaces directly, eliminating the need to backhaul traffic through centralized infrastructure. This reduces operational burden and costs while enabling protection for users, applications, internet usage, and data wherever they work, giving organizations at all stages of security maturity an easy way to secure hybrid work without increasing complexity.
At the core of Sophos Workspace Protection is the Sophos Protected Browser, powered by Island and designed to seamlessly integrate with the Sophos Central platform. With 85% of today’s work done in a web browser, Sophos Protected Browser was developed to address the security needs of modern work wherever it happens. 1 This gives organizations workspace-level visibility and control to protect sensitive data, manage application access, and enforce policies directly within the browser. Sophos Workspace Protection embeds security controls into a familiar user experience, enabling organizations to protect work across corporate and remote environments without sacrificing productivity.
“Security teams are increasingly impacted by complexity, especially as the workspace continues to expand for hybrid work, SaaS deployments, and AI tools. Sophos Workspace Protection reflects the real-world changes in the market and delivers core SASE and SSE outcomes through a unified endpoint and browser-centric approach, simplifying deployment, reducing operational overhead, and enabling organizations to integrate applications and AI without adding additional layers of infrastructure. Allows you to manage your usage.
– Mike Jude, IDC Research Director
Managing Shadow IT and Shadow AI
As emerging technologies such as generative AI become part of daily workflows, organizations increasingly need to understand how these tools are used and what data is shared through them. Recent research shows that more than half of employees worldwide are now using AI tools in the workplace, often before formal policies and controls are in place, increasing the risks associated with shadow IT and shadow AI. 2 Sophos Workspace Protection provides visibility and control at the workspace level to help organizations assess risk, enforce policy, and manage the safe use of emerging technologies across a hybrid workforce.
Sophos Workspace Protection content
Sophos Workspace Protection is delivered as a flexible set of integrated components that organizations can deploy together or individually based on their security and operational requirements. The Workspace Protection suite consists of the following components:
- Sophos protected browser: A secure enterprise browser based on Chromium, powered by Island. Control application usage, local data processing, and web filtering. It also integrates Sophos ZTNA for accessing private web applications and supports SSH and RDP access for remote management.
- Sophos ZTNA: Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) component. Provides secure posture-based access to private applications by hiding applications from the internet while allowing only authorized users and compliant devices to connect.
- Sophos DNS protection: A cloud-delivered DNS security service that organizations can deploy to individual Windows endpoints as part of Workspace Protection. Provides an additional layer of web and phishing protection by blocking malicious or unwanted domains.
- Email monitoring system: Email security add-on deployed with Google or Microsoft email services. Monitor email traffic to detect additional unwanted or malicious messages, such as phishing.
Together, these components enable several important benefits and use cases for organizations to secure modern hybrid work environments.
“Sophos has long protected remote and hybrid workers with industry-leading endpoint and network security, but today’s work environments require stronger governance of apps and data. Many SASE and SSE solutions increase complexity and operational overhead while leaving gaps in visibility and control. Island’s enterprise browser technology and Sophos’ security capabilities and Sophos Central Together, our platforms help organizations manage their use of AI, protect critical data, and protect their hybrid workforce with solutions that are easy to deploy and manage.”
– Joe Levy, Sophos CEO
“Hybrid work shouldn’t mean a trade-off between security and productivity. Island protects data, secures application access, and helps organizations securely deploy AI through the browsers people already use. With integration with the Sophos Central platform, customers can reduce complexity and do it with more confidence.”
– Mike Fay, Island Co-Founder and CEO
Key benefits for your organization
Sophos Workspace Protection helps organizations protect distributed and hybrid workforces, manage the use of new tools and services including AI, and support fast and flexible access for contractors and partners. The solution also strengthens defenses against phishing, browser-based threats, and other attacks targeting users in modern workspaces.
