Integration: Sophos MDR & Sophos XDR
Category: MDR, SOC & NOC, EDR & XDR
Company: Sophos

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud integration with Sophos MDR & Sophos XDR

Threat actors attempt to disable backup solutions before executing ransomware attacks, recognizing that backups can hamper their extortion attempts. Detecting this malicious behavior is crucial. It allows you to intervene before critical data is compromised.

The integration of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud into Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR enhances visibility into this type of adversary activity, increasing your resilience against ransomware attacks and minimizing potential damage to your business operations.

No matter your company’s size, industry, budget, or security maturity, Sophos has an MDR service that fits your needs today — with additional options as your business needs evolve. The Sophos MDR services are built on an AI-powered, open platform that integrates your existing security products and combines easy-to-use, AI-driven technology with world-class security experts who monitor, prevent, detect, and respond to threats 24/7.

Integration Benefits

  • Reduce your risk: Protection driven by the latest insights into attacker trends and techniques, discoveries from world-class threat researchers, and findings from security testing and threat hunting engagements.
  • Consolidate your security approach: Combine outputs from disparate security products into a single open platform for correlation, assessment, and informed decision-making.
  • Maximize your technology investments: Integrate hundreds of leading security products into one service, from endpoint to cloud, identity to network, backup to email – odds are we integrate with your next product purchase, too.
  • Fortify your defenses: Enable detailed investigation into suspicious activity, rapid response to confirmed threats, and around-the-clock access to security analysts and cross-discipline experts.

Features

Improve backup threat visibility

When you integrate Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR, attempts to manipulate backup procedures and delete backup repositories can be identified - tactics frequently used by attackers to hinder recovery post-breach. Anomalies such as unexpected data deletion, disabling multi-factor authentication, and password changes, may indicate malicious activity requiring rapid investigation and remediation.

Strengthen business continuity

Once backups are disabled, attackers will move to encrypt your environment and disrupt critical infrastructure. This integration provide early visibility into these attacks, enabling investigation of suspicious activity and minimizing operational downtime. Consistent and effective backups ensure data availability for seamless recovery, supporting ongoing business continuity.

Fortify compliance and insurance requirements

Backups are crucial to comply with various data protection regulations, such as PCI-DSS and HIPAA. This integration allows the monitoring of security events in real time and ensure forensic details are accessible in case of a cyber incident. Sophos can help implement effective mitigation strategies, reducing the risk of expensive cyber insurance claims.

Accelerate incident response time

Sophos MDR prioritizes real-time incident response and engages in hands-on mitigation. Our experts conduct root cause analysis, hunt down threat actors, and terminate their access, preventing successful attacks and bolstering your incident response plan.

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a fully managed service delivered by experts who detect and respond to cyberattacks targeting your computers, servers, networks, cloud workloads, email accounts, backups, and more. Our highly skilled security analysts stop advanced human-led attacks and take immediate action to neutralize threats before they can disrupt your business operations or compromise your sensitive data.

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