The Dashboard displays your protected devices and offers two ways to extend your protection. In a consumer setting, this lets you install protection for any friend or family member and take care of problems that arise without paying them a visit or tediously trying to talk them through a solution over the phone.
That makes perfect sense, given that in a business setting the IT department manages security remotely. With Sophos, you install a small local agent on each PC or Mac that needs protection and manage all the settings from an online console. The Premium edition lets you manage 10 devices for $60 per year (quite a deal), and it adds an impressive collection of useful security-related features. If you need more than three and don't want to set up another free account on a separate email, you must upgrade to Sophos Home Premium for Mac. From the online console you can install and manage protection on three devices, whether they run macOS or Windows. To get started with Sophos, you register an account online.
It's no surprise that the consumer edition works the same way. Sophos is a big name in the enterprise-level antivirus world, where a central IT administrator controls all the local endpoint installations.
