February 7, 2025

Sophos Firewall v21 has been our quickest adopted launch so far, however a lot of you continue to haven’t upgraded.

Upgrading your firewall is free and must be a high precedence because it not solely improves your efficiency, administration expertise, and have set, nevertheless it additionally consists of essential safety enhancements to maintain your group protected against cyberattacks.

Sophos Firewall v21 is a free improve for all licensed Sophos Firewall prospects – together with XGS Sequence, cloud, digital, and software program firewalls. (Word: XG Sequence units that are quickly to be end-of-life and should be upgraded to XGS Sequence units instantly aren’t supported by v21.)

You can see the replace obtainable 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 use Sophos Central to schedule the update 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 Guide, or learn on for the total particulars.

Energetic Menace Response with third-party risk feeds:

  • Energetic Menace Response has been prolonged with help for third-party risk feeds to allow simpler integration with SoC suppliers, MSPs, and numerous vertical or regional targeted 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 forestall lateral motion

Third-party threat feeds

Enhanced scalability:

  • Excessive-availability (HA) deployments achieve added resilience and extra seamless transitions for diminished down time
  • IPsec VPN features 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 Sequence home equipment – together with our new Gen 2 desktop fashions
  • Port mapping help to make it simple to improve to an equipment with a special 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 Middle playing cards, in addition to VPN and static route configuration optimization
  • Let’s Encrypt certificates help 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:

AnsibleAnother factor – Ansible Assortment:

I’d like to say yet one more factor: earlier this week Sophos introduced our new Ansible Collection for Sophos Firewall.

In case you’re not accustomed to Ansible, it’s an open-source IT automation engine that permits provisioning, configuration administration, software 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 assist resolve your high community safety challenges by visiting Sophos.com/Firewall at present.