Sophos Partner · Egypt
Protection that someone is actually watching.
Sophos firewall and endpoint protection, deployed and tuned properly, and then monitored, because a security product nobody reads the alerts from is a licence, not a defence.
What we deploy
Firewall
Perimeter and inter-VLAN policy, remote access, web and application control, sized to the site and reviewed as the business changes.
Endpoint & server protection
Anti-ransomware, exploit prevention and device control across laptops, desktops and servers, with policy that reflects how people actually work.
Managed monitoring
Alerts land with our engineers, not in an unread console. Detection is followed by a defined response.
What we actually configure. Module by module
Sophos ships with sensible defaults, and defaults are where most deployments stop. The difference between a licence and a defence is a few dozen decisions that nobody makes unless somebody is paid to make them. This is that list.
On the firewall
Rules written by intentPolicy built around who needs to reach what, with named objects and a documented reason per rule, not a growing list of any-to-any exceptions added under pressure and never revisited.
TLS inspectionAlmost all traffic is encrypted, and an uninspected session is one your web filter, antivirus and IPS cannot see into. We deploy the inspection certificate to the estate and keep a deliberate exemption list for banking, health and payroll.
Intrusion prevention, tunedIPS policy matched to the services you actually publish, so genuine detections stand out instead of drowning in signatures for software you do not run.
Web and application controlCategory filtering, newly-registered-domain blocking, and visibility of the remote-access tools and personal cloud drives nobody approved but everybody installed.
Segmentation between VLANsInter-VLAN policy so finance, operations, guest, surveillance and building systems cannot reach each other freely. Segmentation is what decides whether one infected laptop is an incident or an outage.
Remote access and ZTNAPer-application access with a device health check, rather than a VPN tunnel that puts an unmanaged home laptop onto the LAN. Access built to be used, so nobody works around it.
SD-WAN and link balancingMultiple circuits with policy-based routing and tested failover, proven by pulling the primary during commissioning while a call is live.
High availabilityAn active-passive pair where the site cannot tolerate the boundary being down, failed over deliberately during handover rather than trusted on paper.
On the endpoint and server
Anti-ransomware with rollbackBehavioural detection of mass encryption, the process stopped, and the affected files rolled back to their pre-encryption state. This is the single control most worth having configured correctly.
Exploit preventionProtection against the techniques rather than the file: memory abuse, credential theft, process injection, which is what catches the attack that has no signature yet.
Application, device and peripheral controlRemovable media policy, unauthorised software blocked, and a defensible answer to how data leaves on a USB stick.
Server-specific protectionLockdown, file integrity monitoring and policy that accounts for what a server actually does, a workstation profile applied to a database server causes exactly the false positives that lead to blanket exclusions.
Tamper protectionEnabled everywhere, with the password held properly. An agent a local administrator can uninstall is an agent an attacker can uninstall.
Synchronized Security, the part that is genuinely Sophos
The heartbeat between firewall and endpointThe endpoint reports its health to the firewall continuously. When a machine turns red, the firewall isolates it from the network automatically, in seconds, without waiting for anyone to read an alert.
Lateral movement protectionA compromised host is cut off from its peers as well as from the internet, which is what stops one infection becoming an estate-wide event overnight.
Traffic attributed to a user and an applicationThe firewall knows which process on which machine generated a flow, so “something on the network is beaconing” becomes a named machine and a named executable.
Why it only works if both sides are yoursThis is the argument for standardising on Sophos at both layers rather than mixing. Where the estate is already Fortinet at the boundary, we will normally say so and not force the pairing.
Detection, response and who is watching
| Level | What it gives you | Who it suits |
|---|
| Protection only | Prevention on the endpoint and at the boundary. Alerts land in a console. | Nobody, honestly, unless someone has an explicit job of reading that console every day. |
| Protection with XDR | Cross-product telemetry retained and searchable, so an incident can be reconstructed: what ran, what it touched, where it came from, and whether it reached anywhere else. | Businesses with an internal IT team able to investigate. |
| Managed detection and response | A 24/7 team investigating and acting on detections, including out of hours, which is precisely when ransomware is deployed. | Everyone without a night shift. Attacks are timed for Thursday evening in Egypt for a reason. |
We monitor Sophos estates ourselves as part of a managed agreement, and we will tell you plainly when the vendor’s own MDR is the better value for your size.
The hygiene nobody does
Exclusion reviewEvery exclusion documented and justified, or removed. Exclusions added during a support call two years ago and never revisited are where most compromises walk in.
Coverage verificationRegular checks that every machine is actually reporting, not that the licence count matches. Those are different numbers, and the gap is always devices somebody forgot.
Policy drift and account healthOverrides accumulate. We review the policy set on a schedule and put it back to where it should be, with the exceptions written down.
Firmware and agent currencyAn agreed upgrade rhythm for the firewall and the endpoint agents, so protection is not running on a build from two years ago.
Where we draw the line. We also deploy Fortinet and Kaspersky. Which we recommend depends on your estate, what is already installed and what your insurer or auditor requires, not on which vendor page you happen to be reading. And before we quote anything, we would rather switch on the modules you have already paid for. In most assessments, that is the recommendation.
The part that matters after the sale
Most Sophos deployments we are asked to take over have the same three problems: default policies never tuned, alerts nobody reads, and exclusions added during a support call two years ago that were never removed.
TuningPolicy adjusted to the environment so genuine detections are visible instead of buried under noise.
Exclusion reviewEvery exclusion documented and justified, or removed. This is where most compromises walk in.
Coverage checksRegular verification that every machine is actually reporting, not just that a licence count matches.
Incident responseAn agreed set of steps for containment and recovery, written before you need it.
We also deploy Fortinet and Kaspersky. Which one we recommend depends on your estate, what is already in place and what your insurer or auditor requires, not on which vendor we happen to be talking about.
Ask us what your current setup is missing
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