Sophos Firewall v21.5 early entry is now obtainable – Sophos Information

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

Arrange and monitor NDR Necessities risk feeds underneath the Energetic Risk Response menu.

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 also can 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. Evaluate 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 offers cloud-native integration over the {industry} normal 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

Person 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 gadgets.

Sophos DNS Safety

Final 12 months, 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 tips on how 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 function, many firewall standing and configuration screens now assist resizable column widths which might be retained in browser reminiscence for subsequent visits. Many screens similar to SD-WAN, NAT, SSL, Hosts and companies, and site-to-site VPN, all profit from this new function.
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 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 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) not have RAM limits. Licenses at the moment are strictly restricted by core depend and don’t have any RAM restrictions.
Bigger file dimension restrict in WAF: Helps a configurable request (add) file dimension restrict for Internet Utility Firewall (WAF), which may 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 sudden adjustments to core OS information utilizing safe hash validation. It will allow our monitoring groups to proactively establish potential safety incidents early earlier than they will develop into an actual drawback.
DHCP prefix delegation rest: 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: It will 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 robotically detect and alter the MTU for every circulate, making certain optimum efficiency primarily based on particular community situations.
NAT64 (IPv6 to IPv4 site visitors): NAT64 is supported for IPv6 to IPv4 site visitors in specific proxy mode. On this mode, IPv6-only purchasers can entry IPv4 web sites. The firewall additionally helps IPv4 upstream proxy for IPv6-only purchasers.

Get the complete particulars

Obtain the complete What’s New Information for an entire overview of all the nice new options and enhancements in v21.5.

Get began right now

You’ll be able to 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 likely be emailed to you immediately.

All assist in the course of the EAP will likely 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 under or by way of the Neighborhood Boards.