Sophos Workspace Protection is Now Available

Sophos Workspace Protection is an easy, effective, and affordable way to protect remote and hybrid workers, contractors and guests – and the networks and data they access – from threats, breaches, and shadow IT, and provide consistent policy enforcement on and off the network. It also enables a variety of hot-topic use cases like safe GenAI adoption and SaaS application controls.

What’s Included:

Sophos Workspace Protection provides a unique and elegant solution to the challenge of protecting remote and hybrid workers. It integrates all the network security components needed to secure apps, data, workers, and guests – wherever they are – into a single easy-to-use and familiar app: a hardened Chromium browser.

Sophos Workspace Protection includes:

• Sophos Protected Browser – a new secure Chromium web browser that provides several security features, including control over app usage, local data controls, and web filtering. It is hardened against exploits and attacks and integrates Sophos ZTNA for access to web apps and rich SSH and RDP support.
• Sophos ZTNA – now integrated into Sophos Protected Browser, it can be used agentless or with a thin agent as before. It also works with Sophos Endpoint to provide device posture assessment and Synchronized Security Heartbeat to define device health as part of access policies. Existing Sophos ZTNA customers will automatically get access to the full Sophos Workspace Protection bundle and all the added benefits it provides as of February 28th.
• Sophos DNS Protection for Endpoints – provides an additional layer of web protection across all apps, ports, and protocols on your remote Windows devices with added visibility, security, and privacy with DNS over HTTPS.
• Email Monitoring System – a Sophos email solution that deploys alongside Google or Microsoft email solutions to monitor email traffic and provide additional insights, analysis, and detections of unwanted or malicious email, including phishing attacks.

These product components are modular, and you can deploy only what you need. Sophos Endpoint or Sophos Firewall are not required, but Sophos Workspace Protection works better together with both products, unifying protection and extending Synchronized Security to remote workers everywhere they go.

What Sophos Workspace Protection can do for you

In addition to providing an elegant and affordable solution to secure your remote and hybrid workers and the apps and data they access, Sophos Workspace Protection also enables some hot use cases that many of you have been inquiring about:

• Enable Safe GenAI Adoption
• Enable Secure SaaS App Control
• Enable Secure Access for Contractors and Guests

It’s much easier and more affordable than SASE alternatives

Sophos Workspace Protection provides significant advantages over alternative SASE or SSE cloud-delivered solutions, including:

• Affordability: With no expensive cloud infrastructure or traffic management, Sophos Workspace Protection provides much better value.
• Efficiency and performance: There’s no backhauling traffic or man-in-the-middle decryption in the cloud to slow users down or cause compatibility headaches.
• Management overhead: Having a single app to protect all other online apps – private apps, SaaS apps, web apps – reduces day-to-day IT efforts. Plus, it’s simple to add and remove users – including contractors or workers using unmanaged devices.
• Security: Sophos Workspace Protection transforms the browser from a security liability into a key security asset.
• Universality: It works everywhere – on or off the network.

Sophos Workspace Protection is the ultimate solution for remote or hybrid workers – nothing is easier or more affordable.

Licensing and purchase options

Licensing is simple: it’s licensed on a per-user basis.

Sophos Workspace Protection is available stand-alone and can be purchased with any other Sophos Product, but no other product is required.

Licensed Sophos ZTNA customers will get access to the full Workspace Protection solution starting on February 28th – check your Sophos Central account for access following the updates over the weekend.

A special thank you to our EAP participants who have helped make this release the best it can be. Those of you using the EAP are encouraged to get your orders in for licenses soon as early access will be ending on April 7.

How to get started

• Learn more and sign up for a free trial at sophos.com/workspace
• Contact Sophos or your preferred Sophos Partner to get your order in today
• Watch the various how-to videos available on the TechVids channel
• Connect with the Sophos team and your peers via the Sophos Community