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 energetic adversaries utilizing encryption with out utilizing TLS decryption because of AI Convolutional Neural Community (CNN) evaluation. Sophos NDR Necessities may also detect superior area era 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. Assessment the What’s New Information for full particulars.
Entra ID (Azure AD) single sign-on for distant entry VPN
One in all 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 consumer 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 gives cloud-native integration over the {industry} normal OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Join protocols for a seamless expertise
- Supported with Sophos Join consumer 2.4 (and later) on Microsoft Home windows
Different VPN and scalability enhancements
- Consumer interface and value enhancements: Connection varieties 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 eradicate 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 determine 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 by way of logging and notifications
- New guided tutorial on easy methods to 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 are retained in browser reminiscence for subsequent visits. Many screens similar to SD-WAN, NAT, SSL, Hosts and providers, and site-to-site VPN, all profit from this new characteristic.
- Prolonged free textual content search: SD-WAN routes now allow looking by route title, ID, objects, and object values like IP addresses, domains, or different standards. Native ACL guidelines additionally now assist looking by object title and worth, together with content-based search.
- Default configuration: By well-liked demand, the default firewall guidelines and rule group beforehand created when establishing 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 consumer 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) not have RAM limits. Licenses are actually strictly restricted by core rely and don’t have any RAM restrictions.
- Bigger file dimension restrict in WAF: Helps a configurable request (add) file dimension restrict for Internet Software Firewall (WAF), which might now scan recordsdata as much as 1 GB
- Safe by design: We’re regularly enhancing the safety of Sophos Firewall, and on this launch are including real-time telemetry gathering to flag any surprising modifications to core OS recordsdata utilizing safe hash validation. This may allow our monitoring groups to proactively determine potential safety incidents early earlier than they’ll change into an actual drawback.
- DHCP prefix delegation rest: Now helps /48 to /64 prefixes, enhancing interoperability with ISPs. Router commercials (RA) and the DHCPv6 server are additionally now enabled by default.
- Path MTU discovery: This may resolve TLS decryption errors as a result of newest ML-KEM (Kyber) key trade assist in browsers. The Sophos Firewall deep packet inspection engine will now routinely detect and regulate the MTU for every circulation, guaranteeing optimum efficiency primarily based on particular community situations.
- NAT64 (IPv6 to IPv4 visitors): NAT64 is supported for IPv6 to IPv4 visitors in express 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 an entire overview of all the good new options and enhancements in v21.5.
Get began as we speak
You possibly can obtain the improve bundle or installer for v21.5 from the Sophos Firewall v21.5 EAP Registration Web page. Merely submit your particulars and the obtain hyperlinks will likely be emailed to you immediately.
All assist in the course of the EAP will likely be by means 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 under or by way of the Neighborhood Boards.
Thanks on your assist in serving to make this launch the most effective it may be!
