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Sophos Endpoint with MDR

2Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
1 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
2 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sophos Endpoint with MDR was named 2 times in EDR and 1 other category, where Microsoft Defender for Endpoint led with 30%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market9 of 55
2%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In edr · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Sophos Endpoint with MDR for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations2%9 of 550%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at 30%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
Endpoint protectionIT operations and endpoint0%40 of 860%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sophos Endpoint with MDR yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Sophos Endpoint with MDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna11002
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct1 label1
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd favor Sophos Endpoint with MDR—because the service supplies people to monitor, investigate, and respond” GPT-6 Luna · EDR · direct prompt · first choice
“If you don't have staff who can monitor and respond to alerts, I'd shortlist Sophos Endpoint with MDR instead” GPT-6 Luna · Endpoint protection · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sophos Endpoint with MDR, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sophos Endpoint with MDR was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint1 of 21Not among the top eight
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight1 of 20Not among the top eight
Microsoft Defender1 of 20Not among the top eight
Microsoft Defender for Cloud1 of 20Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Sophos Endpoint with MDR. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Sophos Endpoint with MDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

sophos.comYour site2
av-comparatives.org1
crowdstrike.com1
learn.microsoft.com1
microsoft.com1

Four of the six domain citations in answers naming Sophos Endpoint with MDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

sophos.com/en-us/products/endpoint-security2
av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-2025-august-november1
crowdstrike.com/en-us/pricing/falcon-pro1
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-business/mdb-overview1
microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/endpoint-security/microsoft-defender-business1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

sophos.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sophos Endpoint with MDR takes 2% of first choices and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint takes 30%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “edr platform”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “edr platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Organic visits to its site
about 186,716 a month
Searches its site ranks for
26,165 · 1,253 in the top three
Sites linking to it
68,364
Paid Google search
4 searches its ads show for, about 56 clicks and $1,427 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
115+ ads · 100 text, 10 image, 5 video · 65 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2024, as SOPHOS INC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 91 in the year, 24 before. 5 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 9 of 55 in EDR
Segment leader
30%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
2 answers
Its own site cited
in 2 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on sophos.com
9,905
subdomains included
Content
2,865
counted in the table below
Documentation
640
Product · Integration
223 · 265
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog2,510142026-09-28MDR, XDR
Report or ebook14622026-09-15MDR, Endpoint protection
Podcast or video9502026-03-27
Webinar or virtual event3102026-01-26MDR
Comparison3002024-12-30MDR, ZTNA
Glossary or explainer1812026-08-18XDR, ZTNA
Conference or event1502025-07-28
Case study912026-08-11
News or press732026-09-15
Template or tool4undatedMDR

Events in person

Last twelve months
  • August 5, 2026Conference Track SessionBallroom I, Las Vegas, United States · spoke
  • August 5, 2026Sophos AfterpartyHyperX Arena, Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, United States · hosted
  • August 4, 2026 to August 6, 2026Black Hat USA 2026Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, United States · took part
  • August 4, 2026CISO SummitAt Four Seasons, Las Vegas, United States · spoke

As the event pages on sophos.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page sophos.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name MDR (68); 45 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

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The company

Sophos Endpoint with MDR is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Fully managed, 24/7 detection and response for the agentic era.
sophos.com/en-us/protect-with-mdr
For
IT / Security Teams; CISOs
sophos.com/en-us/protect-with-mdr
Free plan or trial
Regístrese para realizar una evaluación de Sophos Endpoint durante 30 días, gratis y sin compromiso. sophos.com/es-es/products/endpoint-security
Integrations claimed
433 sophos.com/en-us/protect-with-mdr
Certifications
Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Managed Detection and Response - 2024IDC MarketScape: European Managed Detection and Response 2024 - recognized vendorG2 #1-rated MDR solution – Winter 2026 GridFrost & Sullivan Leader – 2025 Frost Radar
Hosting
Worldwide
Customers named
Vancouver Whitecaps FCESCO TechnologiesINEOSHalcyon
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price

What Sophos Endpoint with MDR's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: developer.sophos.com/endpoint-software, developer.sophos.com/endpoint-device-software, sophos.com/en-us/protect-with-mdr, sophos.com/es-es/products/endpoint-security, sophos.com/en-us/content/mdr-solutions-brief. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Sophos Endpoint with MDR is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Sophos Endpoint with MDR, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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