Block threats before any TCP socket opens.
Sophos DNS Protection enforces security at the DNS layer – the lightest, highest-leverage control in the security stack. Block connections to malicious, phishing, and policy-violating domains before the browser, app, or malware ever opens a TCP connection. Roaming agent extends the same policy to off-network users.
The cheapest defense layer you’re probably missing
Most malware needs DNS to resolve its command-and-control infrastructure. Most phishing relies on DNS to load the lure page. Block at DNS and you knock out the first step of most attack chains for almost no overhead.
Block at the DNS Layer
Roaming Protection
Threat Intelligence Feeds
Category Based Filtering
Custom Allow/ Block List
Query Reporting
Why DNS is the highest-leverage control point
A surprising amount of attack tooling depends on DNS at runtime. Block the resolution, you break the tooling. And it’s the only layer where you get this control without inspecting payloads, without decrypting traffic, and without any noticeable overhead.
- Earliest possible block. The DNS query is the first thing a browser or malware does when it wants to talk to a domain. Block it there and nothing else has to happen.
- No decryption needed. DNS happens before TLS. You don’t need to decrypt anything to filter on domain reputation - which makes it cheap to deploy and free of privacy concerns.
- Stops malware C2. Most modern malware uses DNS to look up its command-and-control. Blocking the lookup orphans the malware on the endpoint, where Sophos EDR catches it.
- Stops phishing too. The phishing URL in the user’s email needs DNS to resolve before the lure page can load. DNS Protection blocks the page from ever rendering.
Hard to find an environment that shouldn’t
DNS Protection is one of those products where the question is rarely “should we?” and usually “how fast can we?” These are the three deployments where the value shows up fastest.
SMB without firewall-level filtering
Web filtering without a firewall change
Roaming User Covergae
Same posture, any network
Compliance & Content Filtering
Audit-ready content filtering
