Advanced gives you the core prevention stack: deep learning malware detection, exploit prevention, and CryptoGuard anti-ransomware, plus basic root cause analysis. Advanced with XDR adds full endpoint and extended detection and response, so your team can hunt threats, investigate incidents, and pull in data from firewalls, email, and cloud to see the whole attack. If you have security staff who want to dig into detections, go with XDR.

Yes. Intercept X Advanced is a full replacement for traditional antivirus, combining modern techniques like deep learning and anti-ransomware with foundational signature and behavior detection. The base Intercept X agent can also run alongside an existing antivirus if you want to layer it on for a while, but most customers move to Advanced as their primary protection.

Intercept X is a per-user subscription license sold in one to multiple year terms through Sophos Central. Pricing depends on the edition, the number of users, and the term length, so the cleanest way to get an accurate number is to request a quote and we will size it for you. As a Sophos Platinum Partner, we can price every edition and renewal.

Everything runs through Sophos Central, a cloud console where you deploy agents, set policies, and review detections across all your devices from one dashboard. There are no management servers to stand up, and default policies get you protected from day one.

The endpoint editions protect laptops and desktops. The Server editions are tuned for Windows and Linux servers and add server-specific features like Server Lockdown application whitelisting and File Integrity Monitoring, plus cloud workload discovery for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. If you are protecting servers or cloud workloads, choose a Server edition.

Yes. CryptoGuard watches for the file encryption behavior ransomware uses, stops it, and rolls affected files back to their safe state, even if a trusted process was hijacked. It works at the file system level without needing user or IT intervention.

The endpoint editions cover Windows, macOS, and Linux. The Server editions protect Windows Server and major Linux distributions across on-premises, virtual, and cloud environments. Sophos Central manages all of them together.

Yes. Sophos offers a free evaluation so you can test detection and management in your own environment. Talk to one of our Sophos-certified reps and we will help you get a trial set up and pick the right edition.