Right this moment, we’re asserting the launch of two extremely anticipated Sophos Firewall releases.
Obtainable now:
Our new XGS Collection desktop fashions unlock best-in-class efficiency, energy effectivity, and worth per protected megabit per second (PPPMbps), or in different phrases, unbeatable worth for SMB and department workplace environments.
Obtainable in EAP – anticipated GA October 17:
Sophos Firewall OS v21 introduces help for third-party risk feeds to bolster Lively Risk Response, provides a number of scalability and excessive availability enhancements for the distributed edge, and delivers some top-requested options, together with Let’s Encrypt certificates help.
What’s new
Second-gen XGS Collection desktop home equipment
Right this moment, we’re launching 9 new desktop firewalls with a extremely environment friendly structure to ship industry-leading efficiency and energy effectivity.
Finest-in-class efficiency and effectivity
All new fashions supply an as much as 2x enchancment in total efficiency.
By leveraging the improved acceleration capabilities of the digital FastPath in SFOS v21, together with the streamlined structure in eight of the 9 new fashions, Sophos achieves an enchancment of as much as 3X in IPsec VPN throughput in comparison with the earlier era.
This enhanced efficiency ensures your networks are protected against the newest encrypted and zero-day threats.
For improved complete price of possession (TCO), these new firewalls present this added efficiency and safety whereas consuming half the ability of our earlier fashions – which had been already very environment friendly. Moreover, an improved thermal design and the introduction of 4 fanless fashions enable whisper-quiet operation in extremely noise-sensitive environments.
Risk safety improved by as much as 4X
Along with the efficiency enhancements for our new {hardware} fashions, all Sophos XGS Collection firewalls have been by thorough testing utilizing the newest industry-standard take a look at methodology to make sure a good comparability with our rivals. This leads to a 2.7X to 4X enchancment in risk safety throughput versus our beforehand revealed knowledge and firmly locations us as a frontrunner within the aggressive panorama.
Excessive-speed connectivity
Empowering prospects to reap the total potential of multi-gig speeds throughout their wired and wi-fi networks, all fashions include a variety of high-speed interfaces and connectivity choices, together with:
- 2.5 GE interfaces on each mannequin
- Wi-Fi 6 on all w-models with help for concurrent 2.4/5 GHz
- Twin 10G SFP+ fiber interfaces on the XGS 138*
- An non-compulsory 5G module* for fashions with a modular bay gives a cheap redundancy or failover resolution for SD-WAN
Additional data is on the market on our web site.
Watch this quick video for an summary of the brand new {hardware}:
Sophos Firewall OS v21
Sophos Firewall OS v21 can also be launching immediately and is on the market for all companions and prospects as a part of our early entry program earlier than common availability later this month.
Sophos Firewall OS v21 contains:
- Lively Risk Response with third-party risk feeds, extending our automated response capabilities to incorporate risk intelligence from specialised third-party feeds for particular areas or verticals resembling healthcare, training, and operational expertise
- Enhanced scalability, efficiency, and resiliency for IPsec VPN, high-availability deployments, authentication, and internet safety
- Seamless improve help out of your current XG or XGS Collection gadget to the newest {hardware} with any-to-any backup and restore and port-mapping help
Streamlined administration and high quality of life enhancements to many areas, together with a refreshed and extra responsive administration interface, community object administration, and Let’s Encrypt certificates help
- Zero-touch deployment was additionally added in v20 MR1 and is now transport on the brand new second-gen XGS Collection desktop fashions. It allows simple setup in Sophos Central and drop-ship deployments of latest firewalls to your department workplace areas.
XG Collection not supported
Clients working SFOS on an XG or SG Collection equipment might want to improve to the XGS Collection to learn from this launch. The brand new any-to-any backup/restore performance makes upgrading from XG to XGS a easy and seamless course of utilizing our port mapping assistant.
Learn the What’s New Information for a whole overview of all the nice new capabilities, and take a look at our weblog collection that takes a deep dive into most of the nice new enhancements in Sophos Firewall OS v21 with demo movies overlaying most of the new options.
Abstract
Whether or not you’re an current Sophos buyer on the cusp of your subsequent firewall improve or presently utilizing a aggressive firewall and your renewal choices, Sophos Firewall constantly achieves top-rated standing in buyer critiques and continues so as to add worth by the total product lifecycle.
For additional data, please attain out to your native Sophos accomplice or consultant or get in contact through Sophos.com/Firewall.
Footnotes:
* Not obtainable in Japan
