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Sophos Advisory Services

Test your defences

Identify vulnerable areas and strengthen your resilience with proactive security testing and assessment services informed by top threat intelligence and provided by security professionals.

Organisations that report seeking advisory and consultancy services when establishing strategic security architecture.

2024 Gartner Future of Security Architecture Survey

Ransomware victims identified exposed vulnerabilities as the most common root cause of incidents.

Report: The State of Ransomware 2025

Web applications exhibit at least one security vulnerability of high or critical severity not listed in the OWASP Top 10.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing

WHY YOU NEED ADVISORY SERVICES

Expert, independent guidance to strengthen your defences

See how your networks, systems, and employees fare against simulated attacks before an adversary strikes.

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Find your weaknesses

Uncover vulnerabilities in your security posture and address them before attackers can exploit them.

Assess your risk of breach

Assess the likelihood of your organisation experiencing a cyberattack and the impact on your business.

Demonstrate your commitment to security

A sound security approach that includes regular testing builds trust with your customers, partners, and stakeholders.

SOPHOS ADVISORY SERVICES

What Sophos Advisory Services deliver

Sophos assesses your controls and policies as an adversary would using a range of security testing and assessment services. These services support a proactive and strategic approach to cybersecurity, helping to identify vulnerabilities in your environment, strengthen your defences, and enhance your resilience.

External Penetration Testing

Simulates how an attacker could find and exploit vulnerabilities to breach your network, enabling you to proactively strengthen your security posture and reduce their overall attack surface.

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Internal Penetration Testing

Mimics internal threat actors and unauthorized outside attackers by emulating attacks from users with legitimate access to the network or those gaining access via compromised accounts.

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Wireless Network Penetration Testing

Attempts to compromise wireless networks and evaluates the overall security and compliance posture of an organisation’s wireless environment.

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Web Application Security Assessment

Evaluates web applications to identify vulnerabilities such as broken access controls, security misconfigurations, and application design issues.

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FEATURES

Aligned with your objectives

Sophos Advisory Services employ a goal-based methodology that ensures systems are tested within the broader context of their environment to deliver a high-value, meaningful outcome for your organisation.

Tried and tested through thousands of engagements with organisations of all sizes..
Establish tailored goals and objectives for each test upfront with your organization.
Detailed findings in post-engagement report with recommendations for remediation or risk reduction.
Remediation validation included for discovered critical- and high-severity items you rectify within 90 days.
Ensure you get the most value from your test.

AT YOUR SERVICE

Our Advisory Services are delivered by the award-winning Sophos Red Team — world-class security experts with deep, cross-disciplinary experience spanning security research, threat intelligence, law enforcement, military, and more.

Industry-specific expertise

Across malware, hardware, application development, network, cloud, IoT, mobile, and more.

Integrated threat intelligence

Sophos X-Ops research combined with insights gained via security testing research and thousands of engagements.

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Introducing the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System.

Sophos Fusion

Sophos Advisory Services are part of Sophos Fusion, the industry's most complete cyber defense system, engineered for a world where threats move at AI speed.

Sophos Advisory Services proactively test defenses and uncover risk, feeding findings into Sophos Fusion so insights from real-world testing strengthen every control point.

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Sophos Managed Risk

Identify high-priority vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors in your environment so action can be taken to prevent attacks before they disrupt your business.

Sophos Incident Response Services Retainer

Get instant access to a skilled team of incident responders who will quickly halt active attacks and restore you to standard operations.

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