Sophos Endpoint Protection for Legacy Platforms
Sophos Endpoint Protection for Legacy Platforms provides essential cybersecurity for your older operating systems, ensuring continuous threat defense for 1000 to 1999 users over 50 months.
- Extended Support: Access to critical security updates and patches for systems that cannot be upgraded.
- Threat Prevention: Coverage against malware, ransomware, and other advanced threats targeting older infrastructure.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain security posture and meet regulatory requirements for sensitive data on legacy platforms.
- Operational Continuity: Protection against downtime caused by security incidents on your essential legacy systems.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Sophos Endpoint Protection subscription is specifically designed to secure organizations running legacy operating systems that cannot be easily updated. It provides vital cybersecurity defenses, including threat prevention, exploit prevention, and ransomware rollback, ensuring that older but critical systems remain protected against modern cyber threats.
Ideal for SMB and mid-market companies with IT departments or IT managers, this solution fits into environments where maintaining older hardware or software is a necessity. It allows businesses to continue using essential legacy applications and infrastructure without exposing themselves to unacceptable security risks.
- Advanced Threat Protection: Defends against known and unknown malware, including zero-day exploits.
- Ransomware Rollback: Reverts malicious encryption changes, minimizing data loss from ransomware attacks.
- Exploit Prevention: Blocks techniques used to compromise systems, even if the specific malware is new.
- Centralized Management: Provides a single console for policy management and threat visibility across all endpoints.
- Legacy System Security: Tailored protection for operating systems and applications that are no longer supported by the vendor.
Secure your essential legacy systems with Sophos Endpoint Protection, offering enterprise-grade security without the enterprise overhead for your business.
What This Solves
Access to Critical Security Updates
Access to vital security patches and threat intelligence specifically for legacy operating systems. This ensures your older but essential infrastructure remains defended against emerging cyber threats.
on-premises servers, virtual desktop infrastructure, specialized industrial control systems
Protection Against Advanced Malware
Coverage against sophisticated malware, ransomware, and zero-day exploits that target vulnerabilities common in older software. This prevents malicious actors from compromising your sensitive business data.
financial transaction systems, patient record databases, intellectual property repositories
Entitlement to Exploit Prevention
Entitlement to exploit prevention techniques that block attack methods used to compromise systems, regardless of whether the specific malware signature is known. This safeguards against novel attack vectors.
legacy ERP systems, custom-built business applications, older network infrastructure devices
Key Features
Exploit Prevention
Blocks techniques used to compromise systems, protecting against unknown threats.
Ransomware Rollback
Reverts malicious encryption, minimizing data loss and operational disruption from ransomware attacks.
Threat Analysis
Provides insights into detected threats, enabling faster incident response and security policy refinement.
Centralized Management Console
Simplifies policy deployment and monitoring across all protected legacy endpoints from a single interface.
Legacy Platform Support
Offers dedicated security for older operating systems, extending their useful life without compromising security.
Industry Applications
Manufacturing & Industrial
Many industrial control systems and operational technology environments rely on legacy hardware and software that require specialized security to prevent operational disruption and cyber-physical attacks.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions often maintain legacy systems for core banking or insurance processing that handle sensitive data and require robust, continuous security to meet strict regulatory compliance like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers frequently use legacy medical devices and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems that cannot be easily updated, necessitating tailored endpoint security to protect patient data and ensure operational continuity.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies may operate critical infrastructure or specialized systems on older platforms that require ongoing security to protect national security interests and public services from cyber threats.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes this endpoint protection suitable for legacy platforms?
This version of Sophos Endpoint Protection is specifically configured and licensed to provide security for older operating systems and applications that may not support the latest security software versions. It focuses on protecting against common attack vectors targeting these environments.
How does this protect against ransomware?
It includes a ransomware rollback feature that can revert malicious encryption changes made by ransomware attacks. This significantly reduces the impact of an attack, allowing you to restore your data and resume operations quickly.
Can this solution help with compliance requirements?
Yes, by providing a necessary layer of security for legacy systems, it helps organizations maintain their security posture and meet compliance mandates that require protection of sensitive data, even on older infrastructure.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.