We’re happy to announce that the early entry program (EAP) is now underway for the newest Sophos Firewall launch. This replace brings thrilling industry-first enhancements and top-requested options, together with…
Sophos NDR Necessities integration
Sophos Firewall clients with Xstream Safety now get Sophos NDR Necessities within the cloud, for no further cost, considerably bolstering community safety:
Sophos NDR Necessities can detect lively adversaries utilizing encryption with out utilizing TLS decryption because of AI Convolutional Neural Community (CNN) evaluation. Sophos NDR Necessities may also detect superior area technology algorithms that attempt to evade regular DNS and internet filtering.
Sophos NDR Necessities delivers a brand new layer of safety, and because it’s cloud-hosted by Sophos, it doesn’t affect your firewall efficiency in any respect – additional strengthening our {industry} main efficiency and safety. Evaluation the What’s New Information for full particulars.
Entra ID (Azure AD) single sign-on for distant entry VPN
Considered one of your prime requested options makes distant entry VPN simpler for finish customers, enabling them to make use of their company community credentials with the Sophos Join shopper and the firewall VPN portal:
- Entra ID (Azure AD) single-sign on integration with Sophos Join and the VPN portal is now included in SFOS v21.5
- It supplies cloud-native integration over the {industry} commonplace OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Join protocols for a seamless expertise
- Supported with Sophos Join shopper 2.4 (and later) on Microsoft Home windows
Different VPN and scalability enhancements
- Consumer interface and value enhancements: Connection sorts have been renamed from “site-to-site” to “policy-based,” and tunnel interfaces have been renamed to “route-based” to make these extra intuitive
- Improved IP lease pool validation: Throughout SSLVPN, IPsec, L2TP, and PPTP distant entry VPN to remove potential IP conflicts
- Strict profile enforcement: On IPsec profiles that exclude default values to make sure a profitable handshake, eliminating potential packet fragmentation and tunnels failing to ascertain correctly
- Route-based VPN scalability: Route-based VPN capability is doubled with assist for as much as 3,000 tunnels
- SD-RED scalability: Sophos Firewalls now assist as much as 1,000 site-to-site RED tunnels and as much as 650 SD-RED units.
Sophos DNS Safety
Final yr, we launched our DNS Safety service and made it free for all Xstream Safety-licensed firewall clients. With this launch, Sophos DNS Safety will get additional integration with Sophos Firewall:
- New management middle widget to point service standing
- New troubleshooting insights through logging and notifications
- New guided tutorial on how you can arrange Sophos DNS Safety simply
Streamlined administration and quality-of-life enhancements
As with each Sophos Firewall launch, this model contains a number of quality-of-life enhancements that make day-to-day administration simpler:
- Resizable desk columns: An extended-requested characteristic, many firewall standing and configuration screens now assist resizable column widths which might be retained in browser reminiscence for subsequent visits. Many screens comparable to SD-WAN, NAT, SSL, Hosts and companies, and site-to-site VPN, all profit from this new characteristic.
- Prolonged free textual content search: SD-WAN routes now allow looking out by route title, ID, objects, and object values like IP addresses, domains, or different standards. Native ACL guidelines additionally now assist looking out by object title and worth, together with content-based search.
- Default configuration: By fashionable demand, the default firewall guidelines and rule group beforehand created when organising a brand new firewall have been eliminated with solely the default community rule and MTA guidelines supplied throughout preliminary setup. The default firewall rule group and the default gateway probing for customized gateways are each set to “None” by default.
- New font: The Sophos Firewall person interface now sports activities a brand new lighter, cleaner, sharper font for added readability and improved efficiency
Different enhancements
- Digital, software program, cloud licensing: In case you missed it, all Sophos Firewall digital, software program, and cloud licenses (BYOL) now not have RAM limits. Licenses are actually strictly restricted by core rely and haven’t any RAM restrictions.
- Bigger file dimension restrict in WAF: Helps a configurable request (add) file dimension restrict for Net Software Firewall (WAF), which might now scan information as much as 1 GB
- Safe by design: We’re regularly bettering the safety of Sophos Firewall, and on this launch are including real-time telemetry gathering to flag any surprising adjustments to core OS information utilizing safe hash validation. This can allow our monitoring groups to proactively determine potential safety incidents early earlier than they will turn into an actual downside.
- DHCP prefix delegation leisure: Now helps /48 to /64 prefixes, bettering interoperability with ISPs. Router ads (RA) and the DHCPv6 server are additionally now enabled by default.
- Path MTU discovery: This can resolve TLS decryption errors because of the newest ML-KEM (Kyber) key alternate assist in browsers. The Sophos Firewall deep packet inspection engine will now routinely detect and alter the MTU for every move, making certain optimum efficiency primarily based on particular community situations.
- NAT64 (IPv6 to IPv4 visitors): NAT64 is supported for IPv6 to IPv4 visitors in specific proxy mode. On this mode, IPv6-only shoppers can entry IPv4 web sites. The firewall additionally helps IPv4 upstream proxy for IPv6-only shoppers.
Get the complete particulars
Obtain the complete What’s New Information for a whole overview of all the nice new options and enhancements in v21.5.
Get began at present
You may obtain the improve package deal or installer for v21.5 from the Sophos Firewall v21.5 EAP Registration Web page. Merely submit your particulars and the obtain hyperlinks will probably be emailed to you right away.
All assist through the EAP will probably be by way of our boards on the Sophos Firewall Neighborhood.
Please present suggestions utilizing the choice on the prime of each display in your Sophos Firewall as proven beneath or through the Neighborhood Boards.
Thanks in your assist in serving to make this launch one of the best it may be!
