According to Sophos, the growth is fuelled by increasing demand for its “innovative offerings” and portfolio of solutions and services protecting MSPs against "sophisticated and evolving cybersecurity threats".
“Channel partners have a tremendous opportunity to secure organisations from complex ransomware, like the recent Maze, WastedLocker and Dharma attacks, and other threats – including this year’s surge in attack campaigns preying on mounting Coronavirus fears,” said Scott Barlow, vice president of global MSP at Sophos.
“MSPs are also increasingly finding themselves under attack through remote monitoring and management (RMM) and professional service automation (PSA) tools, misconfigured firewalls and endpoints, and targeted phishing scams. Sophos reduces these risks, and Sophos’ recent growth momentum is a direct reflection of its proven track record in securing partner and customer environments.”
Sophos says MSP Connect now supports more than 12,500 global and regional MSPs worldwide, representing a 30%increase since the start of its fiscal year in April 2020, with MSP billings also increased 56% during that time.
“Partner demand for Sophos’ entire product and services portfolio – including Sophos Intercept X, Sophos XG Firewall, Sophos Cloud Optix, and Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) – continues to increase,” said Sophos in a statement.
“Sophos MTR, which launched, in October 2019 as a fully-managed threat hunting, detection and response service that fuses machine learning with human analysis for an evolved approach to proactive security protection, now supports more than 1,000 customers.
“As one of the industry’s most widely used managed detection and response (MDR) services with more than 1,000 customers, Sophos MTR stands apart with its ability to proactively take action on an organisation’s behalf to mitigate threats in real time.”
“We made the decision at the start of the pandemic to deploy Sophos’ entire security stack of solutions – starting with Sophos MTR – across all of our clients to ensure they’re protected in the office and at home,” said Chris Wanamaker, CEO at GeeksHD.
“Sophos’ innovative security solutions are the industry’s best, bar none. They’re cornerstone to our business success, and most importantly, critical in protecting organisations from advanced threats.”
“The only way to protect against unscrupulous cybercriminals is to stay one step ahead of them, and Sophos arms us with the threat intelligence and synchronised next-generation solutions to do exactly that,” said Bob Pankratz, CEO at Technosis.
“We’re always looking for new ways to ensure our customers’ security as they migrate to cloud environments and adopt other technologies. We’ve relied on Sophos for many years because of its resolute pursuit of a complete and synchronised ecosystem, and as a result, we’re working smarter – not harder. Sophos MSP Connect saves us resources, and empowers our team and our clients to quickly adapt their defenses to meet ever-changing needs.
“In turn, we’re able to reinvest those resource savings into the services and technologies our clients need.”
