Sophos Endpoint: policies, threat protection, tamper protection and isolation
For technicians and admins who manage Sophos Endpoint from Sophos's cloud console (Sophos Central, now titled Sophos Fusion in Sophos's help): how Base and additional policies are prioritized, what the recommended threat protection settings include, using exclusions safely, tamper protection passwords, update management, and handling threat graphs and isolated devices.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Sophos
Skills you'll practise
- Predict which policy applies to a device from the policy order and explain why the Base policy is always last
- Identify key threat protection settings (Live Protection, deep learning, CryptoGuard, device isolation) and the risk of changing recommended settings
- Choose the safest exclusion for a false positive or a performance problem, following Sophos's guidance
- Explain what tamper protection blocks and how per-device passwords are handled
- Plan scheduled updates, software packages and content update stages for test and critical devices
Course outline
- 1.Sophos Endpoint essentialsVideo · 2 min
- 2.How Sophos policies workLesson · 16 min
- 3.Threat protection settings, exclusions and tamper protectionLesson · 18 min
- 4.Updates, threat graphs and isolated devicesLesson · 16 min
- 5.Sophos Endpoint: policies, threat protection, tamper protection and isolation: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 6.Final exam10 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Sophos help: Threat Protection Policy (recommended settings, Live Protection, deep learning, CryptoGuard, device isolation, SafeStore)
- Sophos help: About Policies (Base policy, user vs device policies, top-down priority)
- Sophos help: Tamper Protection
- Sophos help: Using exclusions safely
- Sophos help: Admin Isolated Devices
- Sophos help: Threat Graphs
- Sophos help: Update Management Policy (scheduled updates, software packages, content update stages)
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