@bazmail
I have used Sophos for decades at many, many organisations. I also agree with you that these days such software deals with a lot more than traditional virus/trojan/worm malware.
Unfortunately this month I am dumping Sophos. They have still failed to provide a fully native Apple Silicon version and whilst over the last year companies including those I managed IT for were able to stick with Intel Macs in the hope Sophos would get their act together we can no longer do this as this year Apple have discontinued the Intel MacBook Pro models. Something that should have been obvious to Sophos and certainly something I and other customers have been repeatedly warning Sophos about.
Running such a critical tool as Sophos via Rosetta is not an acceptable solution, and even using Rosetta to run Sophos has only recently become possible.
Sophos had from June 2020 when the beta of Mojave was released along with information about the move to Apple Silicon to begin the necessary changes, and whilst Apple Silicon models were officially launched in October 2020 Sophos could have accessed the Mac mini seed models before then so arguably Sophos have now had 18 months. Now over a year since Mojave and Apple Silicon Macs were both officially released Sophos still have not delivered full Apple Silicon support.