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Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, has announced its participation at GISEC Global 2026 (16-18 September) at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City. The company will showcase how organizations can strengthen cyber resilience in an AI-enabled threat landscape where attacks are becoming faster, more coordinated, and difficult to manage with disconnected security tools. The focus will be on Sophos Fusion, its AI-native cybersecurity defense system designed to move businesses beyond fragmented security stacks.
Attackers are now using AI and automation to move faster, scale campaigns, and operate across multiple parts of an organization’s environment. Disconnected tools cannot keep pace with threats that move this way. Sophos’ 2026 State of Ransomware report found that 79% of ransomware attacks globally involve an identity-based initial access vector, with malicious email and phishing accounting for 26% of attacks, followed by exploited vulnerabilities at 24% and compromised credentials at 23%. In the UAE, organizations that suffered ransomware attacks reported an average recovery cost of US$665,000.
These findings reinforce the need for a system that can see the whole picture and respond as one. Sophos Fusion, a modern cybersecurity defense system, is designed to close that gap by preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding at AI speed, while keeping human expertise and accountability at the center of security operations. This shift is particularly relevant in the Middle East, where rapid digital transformation and AI adoption are creating new opportunities as well as new security challenges.
“As AI agents gain greater access to sensitive systems and data, enterprises need security and governance to keep pace with innovation. This demands a coordinated, AI-native defense system that can respond at the speed and scale of today’s threats,” said Harish Chib, Vice President for Emerging Markets, Middle East & Africa at Sophos. “GISEC is an important platform for us to bring these conversations together, engage with customers, partners, policymakers and security leaders, and reinforce our commitment to helping organizations build the resilience they need for the AI era.”
At GISEC 2026, Sophos will also highlight how it is applying agentic AI to strengthen security operations. Within Sophos MDR, agentic workflows can resolve a significant proportion of cases end-to-end using AI, while human analysts remain responsible for business judgment, context and complex investigations. This enables high-confidence tasks to be handled at machine speed while maintaining human oversight and reducing the operational burden on security teams.
Building on this approach, Sophos is advancing the defensive use of frontier AI through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and Anthropic’s Project Glasswing. These collaborations enable Sophos to integrate advanced AI capabilities into trusted security workflows, with analysts and controls in the loop, to accelerate threat investigation, strengthen detections and support faster vulnerability remediation. Through Project Glasswing, Sophos has access to Claude Mythos 5, an advanced frontier model that is not publicly available, helping identify and remediate software vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by AI-driven attackers.
Visitors can meet the Sophos team and explore its latest AI-native cybersecurity capabilities at Hall 4, Booth D100 during GISEC Global 2026.