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Sophos Firewall
Powerful Protection and Performance
Xstream Protection
Sophos Firewall’s Xstream architecture protects your network from the latest threats while accelerating your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud application traffic.
TLS 1.3 Decryption
Remove an enormous blind spot with intelligent TLS inspection that’s fast and effective, supporting the latest standards with extensive exceptions and point-and-click policy tools to make your job easy.
Deep Packet Inspection
Stop the latest ransomware and breaches with high-performance streaming deep packet inspection, including next-gen IPS, web protection, and app control, as well as deep learning and sandboxing powered by SophosLabs Intelix.
Application Acceleration
Accelerate your SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud traffic such as VoIP, video, and other trusted applications automatically or via your own policies, putting them on the Xstream FastPath to optimize performance.
All the features you need,
and some you didn’t even know you needed.
Expose Hidden Risks
Superior visibility into risky activity, suspicious traffic, and advanced threats help you regain control of your networks.
Stop Unknown Threats
Powerful next-gen protection technologies like deep learning and intrusion prevention keep your organization secure.
Isolate Infected Systems
Automatic threat response instantly identifies and isolates compromised systems on your network to stop threats from spreading.
Visibility and Protection
Sophos Firewall offers the best protection to stop the latest hacks and attacks dead in their tracks – before they get on your network.
Deep Packet Inspection
The Xstream Deep-Packet Inspection (DPI) engine provides high-performance traffic scanning for IPS, AV, Web Protection, and App Control in a single streaming engine.
- TLS 1.3 inspection
- Next-Gen Intrusion Prevention (IPS)
- Zero-day threat protection
- Proxy-based dual-engine AV scanning
- Perimeter defenses
- Country-based blocking policy
Encrypted Traffic
Xstream TLS Inspection 1.3 with industry-leading performance, visibility, policy tools, and built-in intelligence removes an enormous blind spot in your protection.
- TLS 1.3 without downgrading
- Intelligent traffic selection
- Pre-packaged exception list
- Powerful policy engine
- Covers all ports/protocols
- Supports all modern cypher suites
- Unmatched visibility and error handing
Zero-Day and ML Protection
Sophos Firewall leverages Sophos’ industry-leading machine learning technology (powered by SophosLabs Intelix) to instantly identify the latest ransomware and unknown threats before they get on your network
- SophosLabs Data Scientists
- Multiple Machine Learning Models
- Static File Analysis
- Dynamic file analysis
Cloud Sandbox
Sophos Zero-day Dynamic File Analysis uses next-gen cloud-sandbox technology powered by deep-learning and the best technology from Intercept X, to provide your organization with the best protection against zero-day threats like the latest ransomware and targeted attacks coming in through phishing, spam, or web downloads.
- Dynamic sandboxing analysis
- Deep learning static file analysis
Web Protection
Sophos’ Web Protection engine is backed by SophosLabs and includes innovative technologies required to identify and block the latest web threats.
- Advanced Web Protection
- Pharming protection
- HTTPS scanning
- Potentially unwanted app control
- SophosLabs
Synchronized Security
Our revolutionary Security Heartbeat links your Sophos managed endpoint with your firewall to share health and other valuable information enabling an automated and coordinated response to isolate threats and prevent lateral movement.
- Security Heartbeat
- Destination Heartbeat Protection
- Synchronized App Control
- Lateral Movement Protection
- Synchronized User ID
Networking and Access
Sophos Firewall offers the most complete portfolio of secure edge access solutions, VPN , SD-WAN, and core networking capabilities to fit any network.
SD-WAN
Sophos Firewall integrates all the features you need to enable your SD-WAN connectivity, quality, security, and continuity goals.
- Multiple WAN link monitoring
- Fail-over and fail-back
- Application path selection and routing
- Synchronized SD-WAN application routing
Site-to-Site VPN
Sophos Firewall supports all standards-based VPN technologies as well as our own light-weight extremely robust layer 2 RED tunnels.
- IPSec and SSL VPN tunnels
- Wizard-based orchestration
- Sophos RED site-to-site tunnels
Remote Access VPN
Sophos Connect is a free VPN client for remote access that makes supporting a remote workforce easy.
- Windows and Mac Support
- IPSec and SSL support
- Easy provisioning and deployment
- Free (unlimited SSL remote access licenses included at no extra charge)
SD-RED
A Sophos exclusive, SD-RED provide a unique and affordable secure edge access device for SD-Branch, SOHO, and industrial control solutions.
- Zero-touch deployment auto-provisioning SD-WAN edge device
- Enterprise-grade encryption
- Split tunnel options
- Integrated wireless options
- Ultra affordable
Wireless Controller
Every Sophos Firewall includes an integrated wireless controllers to enable easy secure wireless deployments for our APX wireless access points, all managed from a single console.
- Plug-and-play deployment
- High performance with the latest 802.11ac, Wave 2 wireless standard, and powerful radios
- Flexible configuration with options for isolation, bridging, zones, hotspots, channel width, and multiple SSIDs per radio.
- Secure encryption with support for all the latest standards
ZTNA
Sophos Firewall integrates with Sophos Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to offer a secure and simple way for users to securely connect to important applications and data.
- Securely connect users to applications
- Cloud and on-premises application support
- Remote access from anywhere
- Device health integrates with Synchronized Security
Core Networking
Sophos Firewall offers the most advanced enterprise-grade networking technology available for NAT, routing, and bridging.
- Powerful object-based NAT rules
- Advanced routing with Static, OSPF, BGP, and RIP with full 802.1Q VLAN support
- SD-WAN link balancing
- Flexible bridging options
- IPv6 Certified support
Segmentation
Flexible and powerful segmentation options via zones and VLANs provide ways to separate levels of trust on your network while enabling added protection against lateral movement between different parts of your network.
- Zone-based firewall
- Default zones for LAN, WAN, DMZ, LOCAL, VPN, and Wi-Fi
- Full VLAN support
- Zone and VLAN isolation
- Zone-based policies
- Micro-segmentation and auto-isolation via Synchronized Security
Management and Reporting
Sophos Central is your single-pane-of-glass for managing your entire cybersecurity portfolio. From endpoint, to mobile, to ZTNA, and of course, all your firewalls, no one offers this level of management integration and ease of use.
Sophos Central Management
Sophos Central provides powerful centralized management, reporting, and zero-touch deployment for all your XG Firewalls and other Sophos products from a single console.
- Sophos Central Cloud Management
- Group Firewall Management in Sophos Central
- Synchronize policy and settings across groups
- Central cloud backup management
- Centralized firmware update scheduling
Central Firewall Reporting
Central Firewall Reporting Advanced, provides flexible and powerful tools to create your own custom views of network activity and threats across your entire network.
- Report across multiple firewalls
- Create custom reports with powerful visualization tools
- Save, export, and schedule your reports
- Store firewall log data in the cloud for historical reporting up to a year
Dashboard and alerts
Sophos Firewall’s carefully crafted control center analyzes extensive back-end data sources to surface just the information you need to respond quickly to changes in your network.
- Instant Insights At a Glance
- Traffic-light-style indicators
- Quick Drill-down Interaction with Any Control Center Widget
- Automatic Email Notifications for any important event
- SNMP with a Custom MIB and support for IPSec VPN Tunnels
Free Reporting
Sophos Firewall is unique in providing extensive, free on-box reporting and limited cloud-based reporting at no extra charge.
- Hundreds of reports
- Built-in storage on XGS Series for unlimited log data storage for historical reporting
- Live Log Viewer
- Syslog Support
- Limited 7 day cloud storage for Central Firewall reporting
- No extra charge
How Can We Help?
Whether you’re ready to speak with someone about pricing, want to dive deeper on a specific topic, or have a problem that you’re not sure we can address, we’ll connect you with someone who can help.