Sophos Advisory Services, informed by real-time Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence, offers a suite of security testing solutions to proactively identify and fix critical security gaps.
Sophos announced the launch of Sophos Advisory Services, a specialized suite of security testing services designed to dramatically improve an organization’s cybersecurity preparedness. These offerings aim to pinpoint and eliminate weaknesses in security programs, optimizing existing investments and bolstering defenses against increasingly sophisticated threat actors.
The launch is timely, given that the Sophos State of Ransomware 2025 report identifies exploited vulnerabilities as the number one root cause for ransomware attacks. Disturbingly, 65% of organizations exposed to an attack reported a known or unknown security gap as the reason.
“Adversaries are increasingly skilled at exploiting the smallest cracks in an organization’s security program,” said Jake Dorval, senior director, Sophos Advisory Services. “With Sophos Advisory Services, we give customers a proactive advantage – helping them find and fix weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Backed by real-time insights from Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence, our experts enable organizations to strengthen resilience, meet compliance requirements, and build lasting trust with stakeholders.”
The new services are informed by leading threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and real-world findings from the company’s threat hunting and incident response engagements. The initial offerings include:
- External Penetration Testing: Simulates a dedicated attacker attempting to breach your organization’s security perimeter from the outside.
- Internal Penetration Testing: Focuses on simulating an insider threat or an attacker who has already bypassed the perimeter, targeting internal systems, applications, and data.
- Wireless Network Penetration Testing: Specifically assesses the security and compliance of an organization’s Wi-Fi networks and infrastructure.
- Web Application Security Assessment: Rigorously tests an organization’s web applications for critical security vulnerabilities and design flaws.
Sophos Advisory Services are delivered by a dedicated team of experts with vast cross-disciplinary security expertise, spanning backgrounds in security research, threat intelligence, law enforcement, and military. This elite team, which joined Sophos through the recent acquisition of Secureworks, holds hundreds of security certifications and is directly supported by Sophos X-Ops analysts.
This collective expertise ensures that organizations, regardless of size or security maturity, receive best-in-class assessments critical for maintaining regulatory compliance and building trust with customers and partners.
The Advisory Services are the latest addition to Sophos’s rapidly expanding security services portfolio. This portfolio also includes Sophos Emergency Incident Response, a unified, hourly-billing offering that leverages combined expertise from Sophos and Secureworks to provide rapid identification and neutralization of active threats for any organization experiencing a live incident. Sophos has also confirmed that additional Advisory Services will be released in the coming months.
