Sophos Central firewall administration replace – Sophos Information

This week, we’re updating Sophos Central firewall administration with a few essential updates, together with a brand new account well being test characteristic and enhanced scalability and efficiency for companions managing giant teams of consumers.

The brand new account well being test functionality gives a framework that shall be expanded over time to carry out a wide range of useful assessments throughout your total property. We’re kicking off this new account well being test functionality with a firewall backup evaluation.

Firewall Backup Well being Verify

This new evaluation will assessment your firewalls underneath administration for backup standing and can:

• Determine all firewalls in your property that aren’t on a backup schedule
• Routinely add a backup schedule for these firewalls not already on a schedule

This ensures all of your firewalls are backing up recurrently to Sophos Central so should you ever want a configuration backup for one among your units, it’s just a few clicks away.

You’ll find a brand new widget for Firewalls underneath the Dashboards > Account Well being Verify space…

Scrolling down will present the brand new firewall backup evaluation outcomes, the place you may select to disregard the outcomes, drill all the way down to see which firewalls are lacking backups, or repair all of them routinely and assign a backup schedule.

It’s best to see this new functionality in Sophos Central subsequent time you log in.

As talked about, we shall be including extra well being test assessments over time for licensing, firmware, and extra.

Scalability and efficiency enhancements for companions

General efficiency and scalability have been improved for companions managing giant numbers of consumers. Administration ought to now be a lot simpler for these companions managing hundreds of firewall clients because of back-end optimizations and UI enhancements.