Sophos Firewall v21 has been our quickest adopted launch thus far, however lots of you continue to haven’t upgraded.
Upgrading your firewall is free and ought to be a high precedence because it not solely improves your efficiency, administration expertise, and have set, but it surely additionally contains necessary safety enhancements to maintain your group protected against cyberattacks.
Sophos Firewall v21 is a free improve for all licensed Sophos Firewall clients – together with XGS Collection, cloud, digital, and software program firewalls. (Be aware: XG Collection units that are quickly to be end-of-life and must be upgraded to XGS Collection units instantly aren’t supported by v21.)
You’ll discover the replace accessible to your firewall by both logging into Sophos Central or by way of the on-box administration console. It’s a fast few-click course of to improve and you should utilize Sophos Central to schedule the replace for a handy time. Sophos Firewall v21 is a totally supported improve from any beforehand supported firmware model.
Watch the video beneath for an summary of what’s new, obtain the What’s New Information, or learn on for the complete particulars.
Lively Menace Response with third-party menace feeds:
- Lively Menace Response has been prolonged with assist for third-party menace feeds to allow simpler integration with SoC suppliers, MSPs, and numerous vertical or regional centered menace intelligence sources
- Synchronized Safety’s automated response to energetic threats can also be prolonged to third-party menace feeds to isolate compromised units and stop lateral motion
Enhanced scalability:
- Excessive-availability (HA) deployments achieve added resilience and extra seamless transitions for decreased down time
- IPsec VPN good points improved manageability, configuration, and efficiency with as much as a 3X enchancment with the brand new 2nd Gen XGS Desktop fashions
- Authentication and net enhancements additionally enhance efficiency and scalability
Seamless upgrades:
- Any-to-any backup and restore for added flexibility when upgrading to the newest XGS Collection home equipment – together with our new Gen 2 desktop fashions
- Port mapping assist to make it straightforward to improve to an equipment with a distinct port configuration
- True zero-touch deployment and configuration from Sophos Central
Streamlined administration:
- A number of user-experience enhancements, together with the general feel and appear, Management Heart playing cards, in addition to VPN and static route configuration optimization
- Let’s Encrypt certificates assist throughout many areas of the firewall
- Expanded community object visibility to see the place objects are getting used
- Dramatically improved SSO (single sign-on) time for Sophos Central on-box administration
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Another factor – Ansible Assortment:
I’d like to say another factor: earlier this week Sophos introduced our new Ansible Assortment for Sophos Firewall.
In case you’re not accustomed to Ansible, it’s an open-source IT automation engine that allows provisioning, configuration administration, utility deployment, orchestration, and plenty of different IT processes.
It’s free to make use of, and the undertaking advantages from the expertise and intelligence of its 1000’s of contributors – now together with Sophos Firewall.
New to Sophos Firewall?
In case you’re new to Sophos Firewall, learn the way it may well assist resolve your high community safety challenges by visiting Sophos.com/Firewall right now.
