Sophos has launched CISO Advantage, an agentic AI-enabled offering designed to connect day-to-day security operations with measurable cybersecurity strategy for organisations with or without a dedicated CISO.
Delivered through Sophos Fusion, the platform assesses an organisation’s security environment, maps controls against frameworks including NIST CSF, CIS v8, Cyber Essentials Plus and NCSC CAF, and converts the findings into a prioritised roadmap covering what needs to be fixed, its cost and its business impact.
The launch addresses a persistent challenge in cybersecurity: organisations often have substantial investments in security tools but lack a unified way to understand risk, prioritise spending and demonstrate improvement to boards, regulators and insurers.
“Good security strategy has always required expertise that’s too scarce to scale, so it’s stayed a luxury only the largest enterprises could afford. Sophos CISO Advantage changes that.” — Rob Harrison, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Sophos
Sophos cites research estimating that around 35,000 CISOs serve 359 million businesses globally. Its 2026 MSP Perspectives Report also found that 46% of customers already look to their MSP to act as their CISO, with 84% of MSPs expecting demand for CISO services to increase.
CISO Advantage uses live threat intelligence and insights from more than 625,000 Sophos-protected organisations to inform assessments, rather than relying solely on generic benchmarks.
The platform is designed for multiple operating models. Organisations can manage their programmes internally, work with an MSP to establish them, or use partners for ongoing managed services.
For MSPs, the offering creates a structured and potentially billable CISO service. For organisations without dedicated security leadership, it provides an AI-assisted framework to establish, measure and communicate a security programme.
Available from October 2026 across North America, the UK and Europe, Sophos expects global availability by the end of the year.
