SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal

SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal

Renew your protection against cyber threats for Server

SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renew al continues to provide industry-leading endpoint security that prevents advanced attacks before they impact your Server. With advanced EDR and XDR tools, you can efficiently monitor and analyze suspicious activity and attack indicators to respond quickly.

Comprehensive cybersecurity for your Server

With Sophos Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal, you get holistic protection that doesn't rely on a single security technology. Web, application and perimeter controls reduce the attack surface and block common attack vectors. Artificial intelligence, behavioral analysis, anti-ransomware, anti-exploit and other advanced technologies quickly stop threats before they can spread. As a result, IT teams with limited resources need to investigate and resolve fewer incidents.

Effective anti-ransomware protection

Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal includes patented CryptoGuard technology that detects and stops ransomware early, including new variants and remote ransomware attacks. Using advanced mathematical analysis of file content, CryptoGuard reliably detects malicious encryption. Unauthorized encrypted files are automatically restored, minimizing operational disruptions.

Anti-exploit technologies

Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal protects your Server from fileless attacks and zero-day exploits by providing at least 60 additional preconfigured exploit defenses. These technologies prevent attackers from exploiting exploits along the entire attack chain.

Adaptive attack protection

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

Critical attack warnings

A Critical Attack Warning is issued when attack activity is detected on multiple servers. These alerts are sent to all administrators in SOPHOS Central, informing them of the situation and providing details of the attack. You can take action yourself with Sophos XDR, involve your partner or contact our incident response team.

Easy management and setup

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

Encryption for Devices

Many Devices are lost or stolen every day. Hard disk encryption is therefore crucial as a first line of defense. SOPHOS Device Encryption, integrated into SOPHOS Endpoint, manages BitLocker (Windows) and FileVault (macOS) via SOPHOS Central. Recovery keys are securely stored and administrators can view the encryption status of their Devices and prove compliance. End users can restore their Devices on their own, reducing the burden on the IT department.

Additional layers of protection

Reducing the attack surface

Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal provides web protection and filtering as well as control over applications and peripherals. This reduces the attack surface and blocks common attack vectors.

Web Protection

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

Synchronized Security

Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal 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)

With SOPHOS ZTNA you enable your users to securely access your applications. It is the only Zero Trust Network Access solution that seamlessly integrates with Next-Gen Endpoint Protection, XDR and MDR.

Differences between Sophos Central Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal and Sophos Central Intercept X Advanced for Server

Sophos Central Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal

• Powerful defenses such as deep learning AI, anti-ransomware and anti-exploit techniques.
• Access to basic policies, but no features such as app control, web control, peripheral control, DLP, threat cases or controlled updates.

Sophos Central Intercept X Advanced for Server - Renewal

• 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.
• A more comprehensive security solution compared to Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal.

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.
- Resource usage may temporarily increase during malware detection and remediation.

With SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials for Server - Renewal, your Server remains fully protected. Take advantage of the advanced technologies and benefit from easy management via the cloud-based platform. Protect your Server from the threats of today and tomorrow.