British cybersecurity company Sophos has acquired Rook Security, a provider of managed detection and response (MDR) services. The privately owned Rook provides a team of cyber-threat hunters and incident response experts who 'monitor, hunt for, analyze and respond to security incidents' for businesses.

Combining Rook's services with its recently acquired DarkBytes technology platform, Sophos is planning to create re-sellable MDR services to approximately 47,000 channel partners worldwide. Addition to this, Rook's team of security investigators will be able to use Sophos' security technology and products for the company's customers.

“Cyber-criminals are relentlessly trying to exploit organizations with techniques ranging from tried-and-true phishing emails to the more recent trend of ‘hacker pen-testing’ to find weaknesses in their surface area. As a result, businesses need 24-hour, seven-days-a-week monitoring and management of what is happening on their network, yet many of them do not have the expertise, can’t keep up or don’t have the security teams in house to optimally configure and manage security around the clock,” says Joe Levy, chief technology officer at Sophos. “With MDR, Sophos’ channel partners will be able to provide businesses of all sizes with expert services that continuously detect, hunt for and respond to security incidents.”

Sophos Adds MDR with Rook Security Acquisition MDR is going to be an essential component of the future of how cybersecurity is provided. Clc bolerohidden hills stable. Sophos has acquired Rook Security, combining that company’s threat detection, investigation and response capabilities with its recently acquired DarkBytes technology platform. Sep 28, 2020 These questions and a comprehensive vendor comparison are covered in our MDR Buyers Guide – available as a PDF or in audio format. Give your organization the best protection with Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) Sophos MTR provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response capabilities delivered by an expert team as a fully-managed. Sophos also plans to align its existing synchronized security technology and product – its Sophos Intercept X Advanced with EDR – with Rook Security’s 24/7 services for MDR customers. Rook Security experts will also be able to review these customer security postures to ensure optimal policy configurations for Sophos products.

Acemoney personal finance softwareselfiequiet. Euro headers fun in ict. J.J. Thompson, founder and CEO of Rook Security, says that the company is excited by the acquisition: 'Together, we can implement faster and more effective threat detection and response capabilities to better protect businesses.'

According to a press release, Sophos is releasing no further details at this time.

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Sophos has been splashing the cash in 2019 with the additional acquisition of Avid Secure earlier on in the year. The purchases were for MDR services and cloud infrastructure, bolstering the company's offering.