--- title: Sophos Launches Cyber Defense System Based on AI | daily.dev description: Sophos has launched Sophos Fusion, an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that replaces Sophos Central. Built using analytics technology from the 2025... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sophos-launches-cyber-defense-system-based-on-ai-kt6pzccgv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sophos Launches Cyber Defense System Based on AI | daily.dev og:description: Sophos has launched Sophos Fusion, an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that replaces Sophos Central. Built using analytics technology from the 2025... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sophos-launches-cyber-defense-system-based-on-ai-kt6pzccgv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kT6PzccGV.png og:image:alt: Sophos Launches Cyber Defense System Based on AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sophos Launches Cyber Defense System Based on AI **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sophos has launched Sophos Fusion, an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that replaces Sophos Central. Built using analytics technology from the 2025 Secureworks acquisition, it consolidates security signals from all control points into a single real-time data lake, enabling a detection in one area to trigger coordinated responses across the entire defense system. The launch is accompanied by Sophos research showing that 79% of ransomware attacks now begin with compromised identities, and that malicious email and phishing have overtaken exploited vulnerabilities as the leading root causes of ransomware for the first time in four years. Over half of ransomware attacks (56%) successfully encrypted data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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