Sophos Sheds 6% of Employees After Closing Secureworks Deal

Sophos has closed its acquisition of Secureworks, resulting in a reported reduction of the combined workforce (estimates around 400 layoffs) due to role duplication and post-merger redundancies. The company plans to integrate Secureworks’ managed detection and response (MDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities into a unified security operations platform, with executives positioning the merged entity as a leading provider of MDR services and highlighting broader industry trends toward vendor and tool consolidation to simplify security operations.