Turn cybersecurity into a high-value business function with Sophos CISO Advantage
How Sophos CISO Advantage works
For CISOs and security leaders
We developed Sophos CISO Advantage with a challenge in mind that we’ve repeatedly heard from security leaders: despite having more tools, data, and reporting than ever before, it remains difficult to demonstrate whether your security program is delivering value. Boardroom trust is harder to capture, adding tensions.
Sophos CISO Advantage helps you consolidate information from across your cybersecurity program into a single framework for measuring and improving performance. It removes the need to spend hours gathering evidence, preparing reports, and translating technical findings into business outcomes. You gain a structured way to assess your environment, identify gaps, prioritize investments, and demonstrate measurable progress over time.
The result is greater visibility into the effectiveness of your security program and a clearer way to communicate risk, priorities, and outcomes to executive stakeholders.
For MSPs and service providers
MSPs are more than a beneficiary of Sophos CISO Advantage. They are one of the primary reasons we built it. Many are already delivering the core elements of Cyber Program Management: answering customer questions about risk, supporting compliance initiatives, providing strategic guidance, and helping justify security investments. The problem is that much of this work is delivered informally, making it difficult to scale and monetize.
As customers increasingly look to their provider for strategic security leadership, MSPs face a unique opportunity to evolve. Now, they can move beyond administering security tools and operations towards delivering a complete Cyber Program Management program. Sophos CISO Advantage provides the framework to make that possible in a repeatable, scalable, and commercially successful way. It transforms advisory work that is often delivered as added value into a structured, AI-powered service that creates measurable outcomes for customers and recurring revenue for their own business.
Key features available in Sophos CISO Advantage v1
The initial release of Sophos CISO Advantage is scheduled for October 2026 and focuses on helping organizations and MSPs establish a scalable approach to Cyber Program Management.
Key capabilities include:
- Framework-aligned assessments to establish a cybersecurity baseline and measure maturity
- AI-powered scoring and guidance to accelerate analysis and highlight high-priority issues
- Gap analysis and prioritized recommendations that turn findings into actionable plans
- AI-generated action prioritization to help focus resources on the areas of greatest risk reduction
- Multi-audience reporting for technical teams, executives, and boards
- AI-generated report narratives that convert technical findings into business-focused insights
- Industry benchmarking to provide context for performance and maturity
- Evidence storage and framework mapping to support compliance, audit, and cyber insurance requirements
Together, these capabilities help organizations move from asking “Where are we?” to confidently answering “What should we do next?”
Looking ahead: Sophos CISO Advantage Plus
Sophos CISO Advantage v1 establishes the foundation for Cyber Program Management. In December, Sophos plans to introduce additional capabilities through Sophos CISO Advantage Plus, helping organizations evolve from periodic assessment and planning toward a more continuous model of cyber leadership. Future enhancements will focus on ongoing control effectiveness, continuous monitoring, governance workflows, and deeper strategic engagement.
What to do next
For CISOs and security leaders
For more information on how to adopt Sophos CISO Advantage, please speak to your account manager or contact us here. You can also find out more through the Sophos website here.
We’ll be sharing more information and helping you understand the problems Sophos CISO Advantage solves through upcoming webinars later this year. Stay tuned for more.
For MSPs and Partners
Visit the Partner Portal to access launch resources, positioning guidance, and enablement materials designed to help you introduce Sophos CISO Advantage to customers and build new Cyber Program Management service offerings.
The cybersecurity conversation has shifted from controls to outcomes, from activity to performance, and from security operations to cyber leadership. Sophos CISO Advantage is designed to help both CISOs and MSPs lead that shift.
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