Sophos’ Raja Patel at Tomorrow’s Titans on Helping Small Businesses Stay Safe

Why It Matters

The strategy aims to scale CISO-grade security to millions of underprotected businesses through automation and MSP partners, addressing a global talent shortfall while preparing customers for rising AI-driven threats.

Summary

Sophos executive Raja Patel said the company is tackling a “cybersecurity poverty line” for small and mid-sized businesses by emphasizing prevention-first endpoint, network and email protections paired with managed detect-and-response services. Sophos’s acquisition of Arco Cyber will add automated lifecycle management—compliance scans, health scorecards and governance—to its platform so MSPs can push-button assess and remediate clients. The Secureworks integration accelerated Sophos’s XDR and identity-detection roadmap, enabling those capabilities to be rolled out to its 600,000 customers. Patel also warned that AI/agentic tools will both bolster defenses and enable more sophisticated attacks, so visibility and controls will become central.

Original Description

Sophos’ Raja Patel joins JD Durkin at Tomorrows Titans to discuss how small businesses are staying safe