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What if the “breachpocalypse” is already here, and we’re just bad at measuring it?
After 7 incidents in 7 days, Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar looks at the signals breach data may be missing, AI’s impact on attacker scale, and what defenders should do now.
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38 minutes → 89 seconds.
That’s the change in average threat response time Sophos MDR has seen using OpenAI models.
Sophos CTO John Peterson joins Wana Tun from OpenAI to unpack AI in real-world security operations.
📅 October 28–29
👉 Register: events.sophos.com/sophos-ope…
Scale AI adoption without giving up visibility or control.
Unapproved AI tools and agents are already in use. Sophos AI Defense finds that activity, identifies what introduces risk, and enforces policy in real time.
See how Sophos AI Defense works: sophos.com/en-us/products/ai…
Roughly 1 in 10,000 organizations has a dedicated CISO. Most manage cyber risk without one.
Matt Helling, Product Director of CISO Advantage at Sophos, explains how to build a structured cybersecurity program without a security leader.
Learn more: sophos.com/en-us/blog/ciso-a…
Sophos MDR analysts have a new partner in the SOC: OpenAI.
The result is faster threat response across real-world investigations.
On October 29, join Sophos CTO John Peterson and Wana Tun of OpenAI for “The New Speed of Cybersecurity.”
Register: events.sophos.com/sophos-ope…
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.2, RCE) are being patched today. A PoC exploit is already circulating. Find where PHP runs in your environment and be ready to upgrade.
Full Counter Threat Unit guidance: sophos.com/en-us/blog/proof-…
Northern Leaders Trust needed stronger endpoint protection with simpler management. Sophos Endpoint gave its IT team clearer visibility across devices.
Watch their story: youtube.com/watch?v=aAtoglkN…
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For the fourth year running, Sophos AI will share new research at CAMLIS. Next Friday (23 Oct), Senior AI/ML Engineer Tamás Nyiri will lead a poster session entitled “Show, Don’t Tell: Calibrating Agentic SOC Analysts via Hierarchical Evidence Graphs.”
Mythos built 8 working exploits from Firefox fixes, one in under an hour. The patch took 18 days to ship.
AI is shrinking the exploit window. Patching can’t always keep up.
See why universal exploit prevention matters: sophos.com/en-us/resources/w…
82% of organizations found shadow AI agents in their environments last year.
Sophos AI Defense, now generally available in Sophos Fusion, finds approved and unapproved AI tools and enforces policy across devices, networks, sign-ins, and browsers.
🔗 sophos.com/en-us/products/ai…
Human in the loop. Human on the loop.
A single word changes how AI operates.
Humans in the loop approve every action. Humans on the loop oversee, govern, and intervene when needed.
🔎 See how Sophos MDR combines agentic AI with expert oversight: sophos.com/en-us/services/ma…
99 threat groups targeted manufacturers last year.
To protect its 50 companies across four continents, KLINGER Holding rolled out Sophos MDR group-wide. Now the Sophos SOC monitors every business 24/7 while local IT teams stay in control.
Learn more: assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/a…
"The game hasn't changed. The speed of the game has."
Our AI Security 2026 report examines what we're seeing across more than 625,000 organizations worldwide and why speed, not science fiction, is the defining security challenge of the AI era.
🔗 sophos.com/en-us/content/sop…
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According to the 2026 #CISO Report from Cybercrime Magazine @CybersecuritySF in partnership with @Sophos, an estimated 35,000 CISOs serve 359 million businesses worldwide, a ratio of roughly 10,000 to one. globenewswire.com/news-relea…
AI agents in software companies grew 466.7% last year.
Meanwhile, AI-driven voice phishing is now the #2 attack entry point.
Most defenses assume there's time to verify. AI removed that buffer.
Learn more in this month's X-Ops Brief: youtube.com/watch?v=k9uTWVpj…














