Sophos has launched Sophos CISO Advantage, an agentic AI-enabled solution that connects security operations to security strategy. The solution gives organizations a picture of their cyber risk, a prioritized plan to reduce it, and measurable proof of progress, in plain language that business leaders can understand, fund, and act on. Sophos CISO Advantage defines a new category in the market, turning security data into strategy and measurable improvement, driven by agentic AI.
Sophos uses agentic AI to show businesses which security fixes deserve funding
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