Abilene Solutions Achieves Sophos Titanium Partner Status

The accreditation recognizes a relationship of mutual strategic trust built on Abilene Solutions' extended SOC capabilities powered by Taegis, its deep expertise in OT security, and the Abilene Group compliance advisory heritage that frames cybersecurity as a resilience discipline.

June 24th 2026, Geneva, Switzerland, AbileneSolutions, a leading cybersecurity solutions and consulting firm serving Swiss and European markets, today announced it has been accredited as a Sophos Titanium Partner, the highest tier in the newly launched Sophos Partner Program. This accreditation recognizes Abilene Solutions' exceptional performance, depth of technical expertise, and proven track record of delivering measurable security outcomes for its clients.

The Sophos Titanium tier is reserved for a select group of partners worldwide who demonstrate the deepest commitment, capability, and consistent delivery of high-value outcomes across the full Sophos portfolio, spanning endpoint protection, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), next-generation firewall, and the Secureworks Taegis platform, now integrated into the Sophos ecosystem.

“Being the only Titanium partner in Switzerland and one of 14 across Europe carries real weight for our clients. It means they're working with a partner Sophos trusts at the highest level, and that trust is the product of what we've built together. Our Sophos practice rests on three convictions: that large enterprises deserve a SOC as sophisticated as the threats they face, powered by the intelligence depth of the Taegis platform; that OT environments demand a fundamentally different security discipline, one we've spent years developing; and that technology alone is never enough — it has to be anchored in a compliance and resilience framework that speaks to both the CISO and the board. This accreditation validates that approach.” Romain Resmini, Managing Director & CRO, Abilene Solutions

As a Titanium Partner, Abilene Solutions gains enhanced strategic alignment with Sophos on enterprise opportunities, priority access to advanced technical resources, roadmap briefings, and recognition as a top-performing partner within the global Sophos channel ecosystem. For clients, this translates directly into tighter engineering alignment with Sophos product and threat-intelligence teams, faster access to new capabilities, and a more direct route into Sophos’s elite Incident Response and MDR services.

The Sophos Titanium tier was introduced as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the Sophos Partner Program, designed to recognize partners who deliver the most consistent and strategic value to customers. Sophos, now operating an integrated platform that incorporates Secureworks capabilities following its 2025 acquisition, defends more than 600,000 organizations globally and is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the sixteenth consecutive time.

“The Titanium tier exists to recognize the partners who are truly delivering differentiated value, partners who combine deep technical capability with a genuine commitment to customer outcomes. Abilene Solutions has demonstrated exactly that, and the combination of their enterprise SOC expertise, their understanding of OT environments, and their compliance advisory heritage makes them a genuinely strategic partner for us in the Swiss and European market.” Terek Moumene, Channel Account Executive, Sophos

The Titanium accreditation reflects a relationship built on mutual strategic trust across three areas in which Abilene Solutions has developed differentiated capabilities that directly complement the expanded Sophos portfolio.

Enterprise SOC for Large Organizations, Powered by the Taegis Platform

Abilene Solutions has built a recognized capability in designing and operating Security Operations Centre (SOC)functions for large enterprise client organizations with complex environments, high data volumes, and demanding detection and response requirements. With the integration of the Secureworks Taegis Platform as a next-generation SIEM platform into the Sophos ecosystem, Abilene Solutions is now uniquely positioned to leverage this combined capability to deliver enterprise-grade managed detection and response at scale. The Taegis platform’s advanced threat intelligence, correlation engine, and multi-tenant architecture align directly with how Abilene Solutions architects and operates SOC services, enabling faster detection, richer investigation context, and more precise response for the most demanding client environments.

Addressing the Specific Challenges of Operational Technology Security

Industrial and critical infrastructure organizations face a distinct set of cybersecurity challenges: legacy OT protocols, air-gap architectures, safety-critical uptime requirements, and an expanding IT/OT convergence attack surface. Abilene Solutions has developed deep expertise in this domain, advising and supporting clients across manufacturing, energy, and critical infrastructure sectors on OT and ICS security architecture. This expertise, including OT visibility, network segmentation, and threat detection across industrial environments, represents a strategic capability that Sophos recognizes as essential for addressing the security needs of enterprise clients for whom OT security is not optional but existential. The Titanium partnership creates the framework to bring Sophos’s threat intelligence and detection capabilities to bear on these environments in a structured and validated way.

Cyber Resilience, Anchored in a Compliance-Led Advisory Heritage

What sets Abilene apart in the Swiss and European market is a dual identity: managed security service provider and advisory firm in one. Working alongside Abilene Advisors and Abilene Academy, PECB TitaniumPartner, and the highest level of accreditation in the sector, the group brings a compliance DNA spanning NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, GDPR, and CMMC. That expertise is not theoretical. Through Abilene Academy, the group has trained and certified more than 2,500 professionals across 120+ countries, building the human capability that turns a compliance framework into operational resilience. Abilene treats cybersecurity not as a set of isolated technical decisions but as one coherent resilience strategy, with every deployment anchored in a regulatory and business continuity framework. As regulatory pressure across Europe intensifies, this is increasingly what enterprise clients require.

The distinction runs deeper than a single vendor relationship. Across the group, Abilene now holds the highest tier in two ecosystems at once: Sophos Titanium Partner in the technology channel, through Abilene Solutions, and PECB Titanium Partner in professional certification, through Abilene Academy. Few organizations in the region operate at top-tier status in both the platforms they deploy and the standards they teach.

The Sophos Titanium partnership sharpens that proposition. It pairs best-in-class detection and response with a governance structure that answers to both the CISO and the board, underpinned by Acuna, the AI-native GRC platform developed by Abilene Group. Sophos brings AI to the detection layer; Acuna brings it to governance and compliance above it. Aligning both on a single foundation, from threat to control, is rare in the market

Together, these three pillars describe a different kind of vendor relationship. Not a transactional resale arrangement, but a technical and commercial alliance in which Sophos and Abilene Solutions co-invest in client outcomes. For organizations across Switzerland and Europe facing regulatory complexity, enterprise-scale threats, and the convergence of IT and OT, it offers a single integrated response.

About Abilene Solutions

Abilene Solutions is a managed security service provider operating across Swiss and European markets. In partnership with the other Abilene entities (Advisors consulting firm, Academy training and certification center, Acuna AI powered GRC platform), the firm delivers acomprehensive portfolio of solutions to protect your essentials through a zero-trust approach, managing threat before (Vulnerability Operation Center),during (Security Operation Center) and after a cyberattack (Recovery OperationCenter), with a specific focus on critical infrastructure (OT) and a strongpreference for technology solutions “made in Europe”. Regulatory compliance(NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, GDPR, CMMC) and strategic advisory enable Abilene to operationalize cyber resilience and work with organizations of all sizes to strengthen their security posture and navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape. For more information, visit www.abilenesolutions.ch

About Sophos

Sophos is a global leader in innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company defends more than 600,000 organizations worldwide with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services encompassing endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, alongside Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), and next-generation SIEM — further strengthened by the integration of Secureworks Taegis capabilities. Sophos sells exclusively through its global partner ecosystem and is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.sophos.com

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