Sophos Takes the Next Step on Secureworks
The vendor's new identity theft detection and response solution is the first instance of a Secureworks solution being fully integrated into the Sophos platform.
Time flies. It’s been just over a year since Sophos announced its intention to acquire MDR/XDR vendor Secureworks and about nine months since it completed that acquisition and told Channelholic readers, via its CEO, that integrating the two companies culturally and technologically was its top mission for the remainder of 2025.
We saw an initial payoff on those efforts in September when Sophos announced it had integrated its endpoint protection solution with Secureworks’s Taegis platform and a bigger one week before last when the company unveiled a new identity threat detection and response solution.
“Sophos Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) is the first Secureworks solution to be fully integrated into our platform post-acquisition, and it immediately expands the outcomes we can deliver to customers and partners,” said Chris Bell, currently Sophos’s channel chief and formerly Secureworks’s chief strategy officer, in emailed remarks. “In practical terms, that means identity detections, dark web credential monitoring, and posture assessments that MSPs rely on can now be added on to Sophos XDR and Sophos MDR services, so identity risks can trigger cases, investigations, and response actions in one workflow.”
An add-on for Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR, Bell continues, Sophos ITDR also offers resellers of those services an easy upsell opportunity. More solutions like it are on the way.
“We plan to continue integrating Secureworks capabilities into the Sophos Central platform, where they enhance partner and customer outcomes,” Bell says. “Our roadmap prioritizes co-developed and integrated solutions that deliver faster threat detection, deeper protection, and streamlined operations for MSPs and end customers, with clear, scalable delivery models.”
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