Sophos (Lite)

Sophos develops and markets managed security services and cybersecurity software and hardware.

For more information about the API, see Sophos Central APIs.

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

• For more information about the Lite connectors, see Connector classifications.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

• Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

• Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

• Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Sophos data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

To get your client ID and secret:

1. Sign in to Sophos.
2. Navigate to My Products > General Settings > API Credentials Management.

3. Click Add Credential and enter a name and a description.

4. Choose which role you want to assign. For more information about the roles, see API Credentials Management.

5. Click Add. The credential, client ID, and secret are generated.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

1. Fill in the required connection properties.

2. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

3. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.

4. Click Create.