Sophos acquires Braintrace to strengthen its adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem

Sophos acquires Braintrace to strengthen its adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem

Sophos has acquired Braintrace further enhancing Sophos' Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem with Braintrace's proprietary Network Detection and Response (NDR) technology. Without the requirement for Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) decryption, Braintrace's NDR enables comprehensive visibility into network traffic patterns, including encrypted communication. Braintrace, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, was founded in 2016 and is a privately held company. Braintrace's developers, data scientists, and security analysts have joined Sophos' global Managed Threat Response (MTR) and Rapid Response teams as part of the acquisition. Through integration into the Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which underpins all Sophos products and services, Braintrace's NDR technology will help Sophos' MTR and Rapid Response analysts, as well as Extended Detection and Response (XDR) customers. Third Party event data from firewalls, proxies, VPNs, and other sources will be collected and forwarded using Braintrace's technology. Threat identification, threat hunting, and responding to suspicious activity will all benefit from these additional layers of visibility and event ingestion. "We're particularly excited that Braintrace built this technology specifically to provide better security outcomes to their Managed Detection and Response (MDR) customers. It's hard to beat the effectiveness of solutions built by teams of skilled practitioners and developers to solve real world cybersecurity problems," said Joe Levy,