Secureworks has been fighting cyber threats longer than most cybersecurity companies have existed. Originally founded in 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia, the company was acquired by Dell Technologies in 2011 and later taken public as a Dell-controlled subsidiary in 2016. Sophos acquired Secureworks in early 2025 for approximately $859 million, creating a combined security powerhouse. That history gives Secureworks an unusually deep well of threat intelligence and operational experience.
The company’s Taegis platform provides extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities, ingesting telemetry from endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and business applications to detect threats across the entire attack surface. Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit — a dedicated threat research team — has been tracking adversary groups and publishing intelligence for over two decades, building one of the industry’s most respected threat intelligence operations. That research feeds directly into Taegis’s detection capabilities.
Secureworks serves over 4,000 customers across more than 70 countries, ranging from mid-market companies to large enterprises and government agencies. The company processes over 600 billion security events daily and manages incident response engagements for some of the highest-profile breaches globally. Its Taegis ManagedXDR service provides a fully managed detection and response offering for organizations that need expert security operations but lack the staff to run their own SOC. The combination of decades of threat research, a modern XDR platform, and managed services makes Secureworks a formidable player in the crowded cybersecurity landscape.
