80%
of CISOs cite redundant compliance efforts caused by siloed workflows
Sophos Next-Gen SIEM
Compliance without complexity — long-term retention and compliance reporting built into XDR and MDR.
Instead of running a separate SIEM alongside your detection and response stack, Next-Gen SIEM keeps compliance data in the console you already use — licensed by users and servers, not by the volume of data you keep.
Compliance work is growing faster than the tools built to handle it
Siloed workflows mean the same data gets collected twice, stored twice, and reported on twice.
85%
of organizations report rising compliance complexity
42%
of security operations centers have no plan for the data already in their SIEM
Sources: The CISO Society, 2025 State of Continuous Controls Monitoring Report; PwC, Global Compliance Survey 2025; SANS, 2025 SOC Survey.
How a SIEM works
SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management. Four stages turn raw, scattered machine data into a warning a human can act on.
Data collection
Gathers logs and activity notices from devices, programs, and cloud services across your environment — servers, firewalls, identity providers, and applications included.
Normalization
Cleans and sorts different data types into a single, uniform format, so events from unrelated systems can be compared side by side.
Correlation
Uses rules and analytics to connect separate small events into a larger warning sign of an attack that no single log would reveal on its own.
Alerting and reporting
Sends prompt warnings to your security team when something looks wrong, and produces the evidence trail an auditor expects to see.
Bring in the sources a standard integration list misses
Compliance evidence is scattered across identity, email, network, firewall, backup, productivity, endpoint, and third-party tools — and it rarely stops at the sources a vendor supports out of the box. Next-Gen SIEM is built to reach the rest.
500+ existing integrations
Starts from the integration catalog already available to XDR customers, covering the mainstream endpoint, network, firewall, identity, email, cloud, backup, and productivity sources.
AI-assisted custom ingestion
AI parsers read and normalize raw data from legacy systems, regional tools, and internally built applications — without your team writing and maintaining custom parsing code.
One data layer
Threat-relevant telemetry and compliance-focused telemetry land in the same store, so an investigation and an audit query run against one set of records.
Retention that matches your compliance obligations
Long data retention cycles are often the reason a SIEM is required in the first place. Sophos Next-Gen SIEM includes 13 months of retention as standard, and it can be extended when a regulation, contract, or insurer asks for more.
Choose the retention period that fits the standard you report against, rather than rebuilding your logging strategy around a fixed limit — and because pricing is based on users and servers, a longer window does not turn into an unpredictable ingestion bill.
13
months included as standard
10
years maximum retention
Extended retention options
Extend beyond the standard 13 months to 3, 5, 7, or 10 years.
Historical context is a security advantage, not just an audit cost
Retention is usually bought to satisfy a regulation. Once the data is there and queryable in the same place your analysts work, it also answers the questions that decide how an investigation goes.
“Have we seen this attacker before?”
Years of retained telemetry let an analyst check current indicators against the full history of your environment, rather than against the last few weeks of it.
“When did this account first appear?”
Knowing when an identity, host, or process was first seen separates activity that is merely unfamiliar from activity that arrived alongside the intrusion.
“Which systems need the most attention?”
Long-run patterns across the estate show where risk and activity concentrate, so hardening and remediation effort goes where the record says it is needed.
Frameworks and policies you can report against
Keep the full historical record centralized so audits and reporting draw on one source, rather than reassembling evidence from separate systems each cycle. Sophos Next-Gen SIEM helps meet the requirements of the major frameworks below.
ISO 27001
Expects demonstrable monitoring and logging controls, evidenced at certification and again at every surveillance audit.
PCI DSS
Requires log collection across the cardholder data environment, retained long enough for assessors to review the history.
HIPAA
Calls for audit trails over access to systems holding protected health information, held across multi-year review cycles.
GDPR
Depends on records that support breach investigation and notification timelines, plus evidence of the measures in place.
SOC 2
Rests on continuous monitoring evidence for the security, availability, and confidentiality trust services criteria.
Internal policy monitoring
Beyond external frameworks, the same retained record evidences your own acceptable-use, access, and change-control policies — including the ones a customer contract or insurer asks you to demonstrate.
What a compliance dashboard shows
Each dashboard serves two audiences at once — an auditor who needs evidence that a control actually operated, and a security leader who needs to see where coverage is thin. They report on posture and control coverage, not just a count of incidents.
Whichever framework you report against, a dashboard draws on the activity already held in the retained record.
- Authentication patterns across your user base
- Change management activity
- Network and firewall events
- Email and file activity
- Detection and case flows
Core benefits
What changes for the team running security operations and compliance day to day.
Efficient
One unified system supports both security operations and compliance, eliminating fragmented workflows and separate consoles.
Flexible
Extend beyond 500+ XDR integrations to bring in the unique data needed to meet your regulatory requirements.
Reliable
Threat-relevant and compliance-focused telemetry combine to build full historical context, enriching investigations with deeper insight.
Predictable
Retain up to 10 years of data with pricing based on users and servers, reducing the cost and complexity of traditional SIEM models.
Security and compliance, working as one
Sophos Next-Gen SIEM turns the data you retain for compliance into a security advantage. As part of the AI-native cybersecurity defense system powering XDR and MDR, every signal contributes to detection, investigation, and response. No separate console. No separate workflows. One unified context lake for better outcomes across security and compliance.
Part of Sophos Fusion
Sits in the same platform as your endpoint, firewall, email, and cloud protection, so log analysis lives next to the controls that act on it.
Extends Sophos XDR powered by Secureworks
Widens what your existing XDR deployment collects and how long it is kept, without changing where your analysts already work.
Works with Sophos MDR
MDR analysts investigate against the same unified data layer, so the sources you ingest for compliance also deepen managed threat hunting — drawing on intelligence from 625,000+ defended organizations and 380,000+ MDR investigations a year.
Who it’s for
Next-Gen SIEM is aimed at organizations whose retention obligations outlast a standard detection window.
Multi-year retention requirements
Organizations that have to produce log evidence years after the fact, not weeks.
Compliance and risk teams
Teams that need retention and reporting without taking on the cost and complexity of a traditional SIEM.
Heavily regulated industries
Financial services, healthcare, and government, where audit scope and retention periods are set externally.
MSPs and resellers
Partners delivering scalable, premium security operations and compliance services to their own customers.
How to buy
Sophos Next-Gen SIEM is licensed as an optional add-on to XDR or Sophos MDR. Pricing is based on your user and server counts and the retention period you select — not on how many gigabytes you ingest.
Priced by users and servers
A per-user and per-server model, so the license scales with the size of your organization rather than the chattiness of your log sources.
No ingestion-based fees
No per-gigabyte charges and no data-volume penalties, which removes the pressure to filter out logs purely to control cost.
Retention you choose
Start at the standard 13 months and extend to 3, 5, 7, or 10 years to match the standard you report against.
Related Products
Next-Gen SIEM works alongside the rest of the Sophos Fusion portfolio.
Sophos Fusion
The AI-native cybersecurity defense system that unifies management across your Sophos products.
Learn moreSophos XDR powered by Secureworks
Extended detection and response across endpoints, network, email, cloud, and identity.
Learn moreSophos MDR
24/7 managed threat detection and response, delivered by the Sophos operations team.
Learn moreSophos Data Storage
Extended storage for the detection data your investigations and audits depend on.
Learn moreFrequently asked questions
It is an optional add-on to XDR or Sophos MDR that adds compliance-focused data ingestion and long-term retention of up to 10 years. It includes AI-assisted data parsers, flexible ingestion of unusual or legacy telemetry sources, and built-in compliance dashboards. Security operations and compliance then run from one system, one unified data layer, and one set of workflows — licensed per user and server rather than per gigabyte.
A traditional SIEM is typically a standalone platform focused on log aggregation, priced against ingestion volume, with workflows separate from detection and response. Sophos Next-Gen SIEM is integrated with XDR and MDR, so the same data that supports compliance also feeds threat detection, investigation, and response. There is no separate console, no fragmented investigation, and no data-volume penalty for adding a new log source.
Thirteen months of retention is included as standard, extendable to 3, 5, 7, or 10 years to meet longer regulatory and audit requirements. Retention applies to both threat-related telemetry and compliance-focused data, so the same dataset supports investigations and audit evidence.
It is designed to help meet the requirements of ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2 by providing the long-term retention, flexible ingestion, and audit-ready reporting those frameworks call for. Built-in dashboards give auditors and security leaders visibility into control coverage and posture rather than incident counts alone. Sophos Next-Gen SIEM supports your compliance program; it does not by itself certify or attest you against a framework.
Yes. Next-Gen SIEM is licensed as an add-on and extends an existing XDR or Sophos MDR deployment rather than replacing it or running standalone. If you are not yet running either, contact us and we will scope both parts together.
That is the main reason the add-on exists. Beyond the 500+ integrations already available to XDR customers, AI-assisted parsers read and normalize raw data from legacy systems, regional tools, and internally built applications, so your team does not have to write and maintain custom parsing code for each source.
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Tell us which systems you need to collect from, which frameworks you report against, and how long you have to keep the data. We will size Sophos Next-Gen SIEM around those requirements.
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