Sophos Firewall v21 has been our quickest adopted launch to this point, however a lot of you continue to haven’t upgraded.
Upgrading your firewall is free and needs to be a prime precedence because it not solely improves your efficiency, administration expertise, and have set, however it additionally contains essential safety enhancements to maintain your group shielded from cyberattacks.
Sophos Firewall v21 is a free improve for all licensed Sophos Firewall prospects – together with XGS Collection, cloud, digital, and software program firewalls. (Be aware: XG Collection units that are quickly to be end-of-life and have to be upgraded to XGS Collection units instantly are usually not supported by v21.)
You will see that the replace accessible to your firewall by both logging into Sophos Central or through the on-box administration console. It’s a fast few-click course of to improve and you need to use Sophos Central to schedule the replace for a handy time. Sophos Firewall v21 is a completely supported improve from any beforehand supported firmware model.
Watch the video beneath for an outline of what’s new, obtain the What’s New Information, or learn on for the total particulars.
Lively Risk Response with third-party risk feeds:
- Lively Risk Response has been prolonged with assist for third-party risk feeds to allow simpler integration with SoC suppliers, MSPs, and numerous vertical or regional centered risk intelligence sources
- Synchronized Safety’s automated response to lively threats can also be prolonged to third-party risk feeds to isolate compromised units and stop lateral motion
Enhanced scalability:
- Excessive-availability (HA) deployments achieve added resilience and extra seamless transitions for diminished 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 internet enhancements additionally enhance efficiency and scalability
Seamless upgrades:
- Any-to-any backup and restore for added flexibility when upgrading to the most recent 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 appear and feel, 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
Be taught extra with deep dive articles and demo movies:
Another factor – Ansible Assortment:
I’d like to say yet one more factor: earlier this week Sophos introduced our new Ansible Assortment for Sophos Firewall.
If you happen to’re not conversant in Ansible, it’s an open-source IT automation engine that allows provisioning, configuration administration, utility deployment, orchestration, and lots 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?
If you happen to’re new to Sophos Firewall, learn the way it could possibly assist resolve your prime community safety challenges by visiting Sophos.com/Firewall in the present day.
