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Simple, powerful internet protection
DNS serves as the Internet’s fundamental address book, so it makes sense to ensure your DNS lookups are safe and secure. Sophos DNS Protection leverages the latest AI threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops to block malicious, risky, and unwanted domains across all ports, protocols, and apps at the time of lookup, giving you maximum performance and protection.
Protect your networks
Sophos DNS Protection for networks is included with the Xstream Protection license for Sophos Firewall.
Protect your endpoints
Sophos DNS protection for your Windows endpoints is included with Sophos Workspace Protection.
Protect unmanaged devices
Sophos DNS Protection on your Firewall ensures all devices on your network, both managed and unmanaged, are protected.
AI-powered protection
Sophos DNS Protection is backed by SophosLabs’ AI-powered threat intelligence, providing real-time world-wide protection from high-risk domains used in web and phishing attacks.
- As soon as a new malicious domain is discovered, it’s shared across all Sophos DNS Protection servers ensuring everyone is protected in real time.
- All managed and unmanaged devices behind your firewall, and all your remote and hybrid workers, are instantly protected from new malicious or risky domains.
- You can block domains employed in phishing attacks that attempt to redirect a user to a malicious URL to enter credentials or share other sensitive information.
Easy to deploy, easy to manage
Sophos DNS Protection is a globally-accessible domain name resolution service with easy policy controls and rich reporting in Sophos Central that’s easy to deploy and manage.
- Setup DNS Protection on your Sophos Firewall in just a few minutes to start protecting your entire network from malicious or risky domains.
- Sophos DNS Protection for your endpoints installs standalone or with Sophos Endpoint to provide domain level protection for all your endpoints — both on and off the network.
- Setup Sophos DNS Protection policies in Sophos Central to block common unwanted website domains or create your own custom lists.
- Sophos Central dashboarding and reporting provides in-depth visibility into the domains visited from your network.
- Data from DNS lookups are integrated into the Sophos Data Lake for XDR/MDR threat hunting.
Privacy and integrity
Sophos DNS Protection for Windows endpoints utilizes HTTPS encryption to ensure the privacy and integrity of your DNS traffic.
- Encryption protects against spoofing, tampering and cache poisoning attacks that hackers use to inject false or forged responses to redirect hosts to their own malicious servers.
- Sophos DNS Protection also ensures the privacy of all your DNS traffic, unlike regular DNS lookups.
- HTTPS support for DNS Protection on Sophos Firewall is planned for a future release.
Fast, efficient, reliable
Sophos DNS Protection provides a global network of cloud DNS servers to ensure maximum performance and minimal latency no matter where you or your users are in the world.
- Sophos DNS maintains points-of-presence around the world covering all the regions in which we operate.
- We have served over 500 billion DNS requests (and counting) to our global customer base since launching the initial service in 2024.
How to buy
Sophos DNS Protection for networks is available to all Sophos Firewall customers with Xstream Protection at no extra charge. Sophos DNS Protection for Windows endpoints is included in Sophos Workspace Protection at no extra charge.
Cybersecurity for all your needs
Sophos Managed Detection and Response
- A global team of cybersecurity experts monitors your environment 24/7.
- Industry-leading threat researchers constantly discover new threat groups and attack techniques.
- Proactive threat hunting to find stealthy threats that elude detection by security tools.
- Full-scale incident response to fully eliminate adversaries. No caps or extra fees.
- Choose from a range of service tiers and threat response modes to meet your needs.
Sophos Endpoint
- Prevention first approach to block more threats upfront to minimize risk and reduce investigation and response workloads.
- Adaptive defenses that stop active adversaries with dynamic protection that automatically adapts as an attack evolves.
- Detection and response to neutralize sophisticated multi-stage attacks that can’t be stopped by technology alone.
- Streamlined management interface to focus on the threat, not administration.
Sophos Next-Gen Firewall
- Expose hidden risks with superior visibility into risky activity, suspicious traffic, and advanced threats.
- Stop unknown threats with protection technologies like deep learning and intrusion prevention that help keep your organization secure.
- Automatic threat response instantly identifies and isolates compromised systems to stop threats from spreading.