SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server

SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server

Protect your Server from security breaches, ransomware attacks and data loss

SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server provides industry-leading endpoint security that delivers unparalleled protection and prevents sophisticated attacks before they impact your Server. With powerful EDR and XDR tools, you can search and analyze suspicious activity and attack indicators to respond as quickly as possible.

Preventive cybersecurity for your Server

Sophos Intercept X Essentials for Server takes a comprehensive approach to protecting your Server, rather than relying on a single security technology. Web, application and perimeter controls reduce your attack surface and block common attack vectors. Artificial intelligence, behavioral analytics, anti-ransomware, anti-exploit and other cutting-edge technologies quickly stop threats before they spread. This means that IT teams with limited resources need to investigate and resolve fewer incidents.

Anti-Ransomware

Intercept X Essentials for Server includes patented CryptoGuard technology that detects and stops ransomware early, including new variants and local and remote ransomware attacks. Using advanced mathematical analysis of file content, CryptoGuard reliably detects malicious encryption. Unauthorized encrypted files are automatically restored to their unencrypted state - regardless of size or file type. This reduces operational disruptions to a minimum.

Anti-Exploit

Intercept X Essentials for Server protects against fileless attacks and zero-day exploits by stopping the techniques used along the entire attack chain. This is made possible by at least 60 additional preconfigured and tuned exploit defense functions.

Adaptive protection against attacks

Adaptive Attack Protection dynamically strengthens security when a manual attack is detected on Server. This prevents an attacker from taking further action by reducing the attack surface and interrupting the attack. This gives you valuable time to take reaction measures.

Critical attack warning

A Critical Attack Warning is issued when attack activity is observed on several servers. The warning message is sent to all administrators in SOPHOS Central, informing them of the situation and providing details of the attack. You can use Sophos XDR to take action yourself, call in your partner or contact our incident response team.

Easy setup and management

SOPHOS Central is a cloud-based platform for managing your SOPHOS products. Our recommended protection technologies are activated by default. This means you have the strongest protection settings immediately without having to fine-tune them. Granular control is also available.

Device Encryption

Every day, many Devices are lost or stolen. Therefore, hard disk encryption is crucial as a first line of defense. SOPHOS Device Encryption is integrated into SOPHOS Endpoint and manages BitLocker (Windows) and FileVault (macOS) via SOPHOS Central. Recovery keys are stored securely. Administrators can view the encryption status of their Devices and prove compliance. End users can restore their Devices using self-service options, reducing the burden on the IT department.

Additional layers of protection

Reducing the attack surface

Intercept X Essentials for Server continues to provide web protection and filtering as well as control over applications and peripherals, reducing the attack surface and blocking common attack vectors.

Web Protection

Intercept X Essentials for Server blocks access to phishing and malicious websites by analyzing files, web pages and IP addresses. The solution uses threat intelligence from SophosLabs and real-time information from the Sophos MDR team.

Synchronized Security

Intercept X Essentials for Server exchanges status and integrity information with the SOPHOS Firewall, SOPHOS ZTNA and other products to increase visibility of threats and application usage and automatically isolate compromised Devices.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Give your users secure access to your applications with our worthy VPN successor. SOPHOS ZTNA is the only Zero Trust Network Access solution that seamlessly integrates with Next-Gen Endpoint Protection, XDR and MDR.

The differences between Sophos Central Intercept X Essentials for Server and Sophos Central Intercept X Advanced for Server

Sophos Central Intercept X Essentials for Server

• Includes powerful defenses such as deep learning AI, anti-ransomware and anti-exploit techniques.
• However, it only provides access to basic policies and does not include features such as app control, web control, perimeter control, DLP, threat incidents or controlled updates.

Sophos Central Intercept X Advanced for Server

• Includes both Sophos Central Endpoint Protection and Sophos Central Intercept X.
• Provides advanced features such as app control, web control, peripheral control, DLP and threat cases.
• It is a more comprehensive security solution compared to Intercept X Essentials for Server.

System requirements

Fully supported platforms

Windows Server:
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022

Legacy Server Platforms:
- Windows Server 2008R2 (requires extended support license)
- Windows SBS 2011 (requires extended support license)
- Windows Server 2012/Server 2012R2 (requires extended support license)

System requirements for Server

Product: Intercept X Advanced for Server
Free disk space: 8 GB (minimum), 10 GB (recommended)
RAM: 8 GB (minimum), 16 GB (recommended)
Processor: 2 cores (minimum), 4 cores (recommended)
Hard disk type: SSD (strongly recommended)

Important notes

- Certain older platforms are considered obsolete and may require an extended support license. Some features may not be available, supported or updated on these platforms.
- For optimal performance, we recommend using SSDs instead of traditional hard disks.
- During malware detection and remediation, resource usage may temporarily increase.

With SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server, your Server is fully protected. Use the powerful technologies and benefit from easy management via the cloud-based platform. Protect your Server from the threats of today and tomorrow.