Advanced Ransomware Security: Prevent your personal files and photos from being encrypted and held for ransom.Sophos Home identifies and eliminates viruses, malware, Trojans, worms, bots, and potentially unwanted apps (PUAs).

Real-Time Threat Prevention: Analyze suspicious behavior and activities to protect yourself against new and developing threats.

Artificial Intelligence Threat Detection: Detect and block new, previously unidentified 'zero-day' attacks with predictive AI and deep learning before they impact your system.

Offering a central dashboard with an intuitive interface, Sophos Home provides a full system scan, firewall, and security protection capabilities.īoth the free edition and the subscription-based Sophos Home Premium provide sophisticated, next-gen web protection and virus removal tools for macOS systems.

Powered by enterprise-grade endpoint protection technologies, the home version is affordable, simple to install, and easy to use. When I look at Privacy Prefs - I see a blank check box on the Sophos System Extension under Full Disk Access, but checking this box manually does not seem to prevent the freezing so far.Ĭould use some advice as Sophos refuses to help aside from pointing me at their stale community article or their Early Access Program, which requires manual deployment from our Sophos Cloud estate.Award-winning Sophos for Mac blocks advanced viruses, malware, phishing, exploits, and ransomware attacks.

Sophos support indicates the permissions need to be Allowed manually and they don't support deployment with Jamf Pro. We reviewed the config profile and ensured it has the boolean values required (as someone outside of Sophos discovered in the comments). We have been deploying a config profile for some time now with the System Extensions + PPPC requirements based on this article: I wanted to post here to see - has anyone experienced and/or mitigated this issue?

We also have had to exclude new Monterey systems from our Sophos policy, as it was causing freezing right after policy completion. We have narrowed the issue down to Sophos, as when we uninstall in Safe mode, the issue is resolved. Recently, we've had an uptick in customers reporting their Intel Monterey systems are unusable for about 30-45 min, then they function normally. We have been deploying Sophos via Jamf Pro for years now.

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