SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials - Renewal

SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials - Renewal

Extend your protection against breaches, ransomware attacks and data loss

SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials - Renewal continues to provide industry-leading endpoint security that delivers unparalleled protection and prevents sophisticated attacks before they impact your systems. Extend your access to powerful EDR and XDR tools that enable targeted search and analysis of suspicious activity and attack indicators so you can respond as quickly as possible.

Preventive cybersecurity for the future

Sophos Intercept X Essentials takes a comprehensive approach to protecting your endpoints, 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 continues to include 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 continues to protect 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 an endpoint. This prevents an attacker from taking further action by reducing the attack surface and interrupting the attack. This gives you valuable time to take response measures.

Critical attack warning

A Critical Attack Warning is issued when attack activity is observed on several endpoints and 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 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 continues to block access to phishing and malicious websites by analyzing files, web pages and IP addresses. To do this, the solution uses threat intelligence from SophosLabs and real-time information from the Sophos MDR team.

Synchronized Security

Intercept X Essentials 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 and Sophos Central Intercept X Advanced

Sophos Central Intercept X Essentials

• 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

• 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.

System requirements of 

Fully supported platforms

Windows
- 10 64-bit - 11 Windows
Windows

macOS:
- macOS 12, 13, 14 (Intel-based Macs, 64-bit)
- macOS 12, 13, 14 (Apple Silicon M Series, ARM)

Linux:
- Amazon Linux 2
- Amazon Linux 2023
- CentOS 7 (3.10.0-1062 or later)
- CentOS Minimal
- CentOS Stream
- Debian 10, 11, 12
- Miracle Linux 8
- Oracle 7 (UEK 4.14 or later, RHCK 3.10.0-1062 or later)
- Oracle 8, 9
- RHEL 7, 8, 9
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, 15
- Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS), 20.04 (LTS), 22.04 (LTS)
- Ubuntu Minimal

System requirements for Windows

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

Special requirements for Linux

Free hard disk space: 2.5 GB
Memory: 2 GB
System type: x86_64 and ARM64
System is supported and running
- glibc 2.17 or higher
- ARM64: glibc 2.18 or higher
Bash is installed

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 SSD
- When detecting malware and during remediation, resource usage may temporarily increase.

With SOPHOS Central Intercept X Essentials - Renewal, your endpoints remain fully protected. Take advantage of the powerful technologies and benefit from easy management via the cloud-based platform. Renew your protection now and secure your systems against the threats of today and tomorrow.