Sophos and Halcyon have announced a strategic threat intelligence sharing partnership. This collaboration will bring together two of the most experienced teams in ransomware defense to accelerate detection, enhance protection, and improve response capabilities for more than 300,000 organizations worldwide, said the companies.
The partnership will involve the real-time exchange of threat intelligence, including indicators of compromise (IOCs), adversary behaviors, and attack patterns. The shared intelligence will inform defenses across both companies’ solutions, such as Sophos Endpoint, Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Sophos XDR, and Halcyon’s Anti-Ransomware Platform.
A key part of the collaboration is the implementation of mutual anti-tamper protections. This allows each platform to monitor and protect the other’s agents in customer environments, which helps ensure that security defenses remain intact during a ransomware attack.
Simon Reed, chief research and scientific officer at Sophos, commented, “Ransomware tools and tactics are evolving constantly, and the best defense is timely, relevant intelligence that enables defenders to act quickly and with confidence. By sharing insights with Halcyon, we’re improving signal fidelity and accelerating detection across our systems, which strengthens protection for all the organizations we serve.”
Jon Miller, CEO and co-founder of Halcyon also said, “Over the last four years, based on our telemetry, Sophos has time and time again proven to be one of the most effective endpoint security platforms we have encountered, reliably performing and disrupting attackers at a level that simply outperforms the majority of the players in the next-generation antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) space.” He further noted that Sophos’s “dedication to innovate and roll out industry-leading and unique features continues to put their customers at an everyday advantage over the most sophisticated attacks affecting enterprises today.”
This collaboration is part of Sophos’ strategy to expand the speed and reach of its threat response through strategic partnerships. Sophos X-Ops, the company’s threat intelligence unit, will work with Halcyon’s research and engineering teams to operationalize ransomware-related insights across a variety of attack surfaces.
