The Hidden Architecture Of Cybercrime: What MSPs Must Know Now

At the Best of Breed conference in Atlanta, Srikant Ganesh, partner principal at Sophos, pulled back the curtain on the evolving structure of cybercrime, urging solution providers to rethink how they defend against increasingly organized adversaries.

“Ransomware is a full-fledged industry now,” Ganesh said. “It’s a network of highly specialized actors who fulfill a very specific or very well-defined role.”

Ganesh described how cybercriminals now operate like multinational corporations, complete with HR departments, recruitment pipelines and even state sponsorship. “Cybercrime slash ransomware—very well organized, very resilient, very well founded,” he said. “In fact, nation-state funded and supported.”

The keynote emphasized that disruption is possible, but only if the cybersecurity ecosystem outpaces adversaries through collaboration and innovation. “Our ecosystem of partners and companies in this room has to be better than the adversary,” Ganesh said. “Speed and efficiency is the key.”

Sophos is responding with a new open-architecture platform available through Sophos Central, offering EDR, MDR, XDR, NDR, email and cloud security. “It can be managed by us, it can be managed by partners in the room, it can be managed by customers—or it can be managed by all of us,” Ganesh said.

With 100 percent of its business channel-driven and 60 percent through MSPs, Sophos is doubling down on flexibility and visibility to help partners stay ahead.

You can learn more about Sophos at sophos.com/MSP.