Introducing Sophos AI Defense

Built for how organizations really use AI
Most AI security tools are built to secure models, pipelines, or future-state platforms.

Built for how organizations really use AI

Most AI security tools are built to secure models, pipelines, or future-state platforms. Sophos AI Defense focuses on the risk you face right now: unmanaged usage, blind spots, and sensitive data leaving through everyday AI tools.

Sophos AI Defense enables you to discover AI activity across your environment, assess what introduces real risk, enforce AI use at scale, and respond to threats before impact escalates.

Discover. Reveal every AI agent, tool, and activity across your environment, including shadow AI and autonomous agents, so nothing runs beyond your view.
Assess. Understand which activity actually introduces risk by weighing identity, permissions, geography, data access, and behavior in context, not in isolation.
Enforce. Apply scalable guardrails that keep AI use aligned with policy and regulation, including controls on prompts and agent behavior, without slowing people down.
Respond. Feed AI activity into your detection and response workflows as a first-class security signal, using the same playbooks, tools, and escalation paths you rely on today.

Powered by Sophos Fusion

Sophos AI Defense is part of Sophos Fusion, the AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System that unifies Sophos technology into a coordinated, adaptive defense. Rather than adding another standalone product, Sophos AI Defense extends the protection you already have across endpoint, network, identity, and browser, and applies it to the fast-emerging risk of unmanaged AI use.

It is available as an add-on for Sophos EDR, Sophos XDR, and Sophos MDR customers on Sophos Fusion.

Bring AI out of the shadows

AI is already part of how your organization works. Sophos AI Defense helps you adopt and use it with confidence, turning AI from an unmanaged liability into a visible, controllable, and secure part of your environment.

Speak to an expert today or visit sophos.com/ai-defense to learn more.

¹Microsoft Work Trend Index Annual Report, 2025

² CSA, “The Shadow AI Agent Problem in Enterprise Environments,” 2025

³ Komprise IT Survey: AI, Data & Enterprise Risk.

About Author

AndyC

Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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