We’re extraordinarily happy to announce that Sophos Firewall v20 is now obtainable. This newest launch consists of an progressive new energetic risk response functionality, a number of networking enhancements, added assist for securing your distant workforce, and plenty of of your top-requested options.
Sophos Firewall v20 is a free improve for all licensed Sophos Firewall prospects.
Watch the video beneath for an summary of what’s new, obtain the What’s New PDF, or learn on for the total particulars and deep-dive demo movies.
Energetic Menace Response
Extending Synchronized Safety to MDR and XDR offers a direct feed for safety analysts to share energetic risk info with the firewall, enabling it to mechanically reply to energetic threats with out creating any firewall guidelines.
Dynamic Menace Feeds introduces a brand new risk feed API framework that’s simply extensible. It permits risk intelligence to be shared by the Sophos X-Ops workforce, different Sophos merchandise like MDR and XDR, and finally third-party risk feeds sooner or later.
Synchronized Safety extends the identical Purple Heartbeat, automated response that Sophos Firewall has all the time had and applies it to MDR/XDR recognized threats. This ensures compromised hosts usually are not capable of transfer laterally or talk out, whereas particulars together with host, person, and course of are available for follow-up. Synchronized Safety has additionally been enhanced with added scalability and diminished false lacking heartbeats for units which might be in sleep or hibernation states.
Watch the Energetic Menace Response demo video.
Distant employee safety and SASE
ZTNA gateway integration makes ZTNA deployments even simpler by integrating a ZTNA gateway straight into the firewall. This implies any group that should present distant entry to purposes hosted behind the firewall doesn’t must deploy a separate gateway on a VM. They’ll merely make the most of the gateway built-in into their firewall. When mixed with our single-agent deployment on the distant machine, ZTNA couldn’t probably get any simpler. It’s actually zero-touch zero belief.
Third-party SD-WAN integration makes it simple to onramp SD-WAN visitors onto Cloudflare, Akami, or Azure spine networks to make the most of their huge infrastructure, attain, and networking and safety companies.
Sophos DNS Safety is our new cloud-delivered internet safety service that will likely be obtainable individually in early entry very quickly. It offers a brand new Sophos-hosted area title decision service (DNS) with compliance and safety features which might be absolutely supported by Sophos Firewall. This service offers an added layer of internet safety, stopping entry to recognized compromised or malicious domains throughout all ports, protocols, or purposes – each unencrypted and encrypted. Extra information on this new service is coming quickly.
Community scalability and resiliency enhancements
A brand new VPN portal offers a containerized, hardened self-service portal for finish customers to obtain VPN shoppers and configurations, auto-provisioning, and clientless VPN bookmarks.
IPsec enhancements embrace seamless HA failover, tunnel standing monitoring by way of SNMP, distinctive PSK assist for a similar native and distant gateway connections, and DH Group 27-30/RFC6954 assist.
SSL VPN enhancements embrace FQDN (absolutely certified area title) host and group assist for each distant entry and site-to-site SSL VPN.
SD-WAN scalability triples SD-WAN gateway scalability to 3072 gateways and the variety of SD-WAN profiles to 1024.
IPv6 enhancements embrace DHCP prefix delegation to seamlessly combine together with your ISP and new enhancements to the dynamic routing engine now assist BGPv6 for improved IPv6 interoperability.
Watch a video overview of the VPN enhancements or the IPv6 BGPv6 and DHCPv6 capabilities.
Streamlined administration
Interface allow/disable delivers a top-requested function to simply disable or allow community interfaces on the firewall with out dropping any configuration.
Object reference lookup addresses one other top-requested function to seek out the place a given host or service object is utilized in guidelines, insurance policies, and routing.
Hello-res show assist provides elevated horizontal scalability to the administration console to make the most of high-resolution shows and scale back horizontal scrolling.
Auto-rollback on failed firmware updates reduces any disruption, together with high-availability deployments.
Backup and restore now consists of the choice to revive a backup from a firewall with built-in Wi-Fi to a firewall with out Wi-Fi.
Azure AD SSO for captive portal provides assist for person authentication on the captive portal utilizing their Azure AD credentials.
Azure group import and RBAC add assist for a brand new import assistant for Azure AD teams and computerized promotion for role-based admin adjustments.
Watch movies overlaying the brand new administration options and Azure AD capabilities.
Different enhancements
Net Software Firewall (WAF) enhancements embrace geo IP coverage enforcement, customized cipher configuration, and TLS model settings, in addition to improved safety with HSTS enforcement and X-Content material-Sort-Choices enforcement.
Azure Single Arm deployment assist permits the selection of a smaller occasion measurement to avoid wasting on infrastructure prices and scale back community and operational complexity.
Get extra particulars on what’s new
Obtain the total What’s New Information for a whole overview of all the nice new options and enhancements in v20.
Overview the launch notes and documentation.
Watch the demo video collection:
Find out how to get v20
As with each firewall launch, Sophos Firewall v20 is a free improve for all licensed Sophos Firewall prospects and ought to be utilized to all supported firewall units as quickly as potential. This launch not solely accommodates nice options and efficiency enhancements, but additionally necessary safety fixes.
This firmware launch will observe our customary replace course of.
Please observe that Sophos Firewall firmware updates at the moment are downloaded from Sophos Central. Get the full particulars right here or observe the short information beneath to get the most recent v20 firmware on your firewall:
1. Log in to your Sophos Central account and choose “Licensing” from the drop-down menu beneath your account title within the high proper of the Sophos Central console.
2. Choose Firewall Licenses on the highest left of this display.
3. Broaden the firewall machine you’re focused on updating by clicking the “>” to point out the licenses and firmware updates obtainable for that machine.
4. Click on the firmware launch you need to obtain (observe there’s presently a problem with downloads working in Safari so please use a unique browser akin to Chrome).
5. You may as well click on “Different downloads” in the identical field above to entry preliminary installers and software program platform firmware updates.
The brand new v20 firmware will likely be progressively rolled out to all related units over the approaching weeks. A notification will seem in your native machine or Sophos Central administration console when the replace is offered, permitting you to schedule the replace at your comfort.
Sophos Firewall v20 is a totally supported improve from any supported Sophos Firewall firmware model.
Try the v20.0 GA launch notes for extra particulars, together with the recognized points record. Full product documentation is offered on-line and inside the product.
