Delivered through Sophos Central, NDR integrates seamlessly with Sophos XDR, MDR, Firewall, and Synchronized Security offering unified detection, investigation, and response across the entire attack surface. Central NDR ensures organizations gain unmatched network insight without complex on‑prem infrastructure or manual tuning.
What’s Special About Sophos NDR?
- Detects hidden and advanced threats using behavioral analytics, ML-based anomaly detection, and deep traffic inspection.
- Uncovers lateral movement, internal scanning, unauthorized access attempts, and network beaconing critical indicators of compromise often missed by endpoint-only tools.
- Feeds rich network telemetry into Sophos Central, enhancing XDR investigations and MDR’s 24/7 detection capabilities.
- Identifies command-and-control (C2) channels, encrypted tunnels, DNS tunneling, and suspicious outbound traffic patterns.
- Fully integrated with Sophos Firewall, XDR, MDR, and Synchronized Security, enabling coordinated multi-signal detection.
- Cloud‑managed deployment reduces complexity and ensures continuous updates, scalability, and centralized visibility.
Central NDR
Central NDR delivers network detection and response capabilities directly within the Sophos Central cloud platform. It aggregates, analyzes, and correlates network telemetry in real time, enabling rapid threat identification and root‑cause analysis.
Key Benefits of Central NDR
- Cloud-native management with no local server requirements.
- Automatic correlation between network signals, endpoint telemetry, identity data, and firewall activity.
- AI-driven detection with cloud‑delivered behavioral updates.
- Built-in threat hunting powered by the Sophos Data Lake for XDR and MDR workflows.
- Centralized investigations combining network, identity, and endpoint indicators into a single incident timeline.
Central NDR strengthens both analyst-driven (XDR) and fully managed (MDR) operations with continuous network-layer visibility.
Key Capabilities
- East-West & North-South Traffic Visibility
NDR analyzes internal and outbound network flows to detect:
- Suspicious host-to-host activities
- Reconnaissance and scanning
- Unauthorized protocol usage
- Abnormal service requests
- Traffic bypassing normal security controls
- Detection of Advanced Attacker Techniques
Includes identification of:
- Lateral movement behavior
- Internal privilege abuse
- Credential harvesting attempts
- Covert command‑and‑control communications
- Encrypted malicious traffic and beaconing
- Behavioral & Machine Learning Analytics
Sophos NDR learns normal network patterns to highlight anomalies including subtle, low‑and‑slow attack behaviors often undetected by signature‑based tools.
- XDR & MDR Integration
- Enriches XDR investigations with network insights
- Enables MDR to detect and respond to hidden network threats
- Supports multi-signal correlation across endpoint, identity, network, and cloud
- Cloud-Delivered Updates & Operations (Central NDR)
- No hardware or complex configuration needed
- Continuous analytics & ML model improvements
- Unified policy and alert management via Sophos Central
Business Impact
- Uncover threats hiding inside the network, beyond endpoint or firewall visibility.
- Stop lateral movement early, preventing attacks from escalating.
- Strengthen incident response with network-layer evidence and automated correlation.
- Support Zero Trust strategies with continuous network monitoring and validation.
- Reduce risk and dwell time by giving XDR/MDR teams deeper visibility into attacker behavior.
- Improve compliance with enhanced forensic evidence and network‑level monitoring.
