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Consolidate your network protection with our integrated and extensible platform to secure your hybrid networked world.
What you get:
Automatic response to active threats
Powerful protection and performance
Work from anywhere, safely and securely
Managed through a single console
How people work has changed. Has your firewall?
See How It WorksConsolidate Your Cybersecurity
Sophos Firewall is much more than a firewall — it's the heart of the world's best network security platform. Consolidate and simplify your cybersecurity with a single vendor, cloud management console, and agent.
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Sophos Firewall includes more than any other firewall:
- Full next-gen firewall capability with the best protection and performance optimized for the modern encrypted internet
- Integration with Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR to provide Automated Threat Response and Synchronized Security to stop threats before they can cause serious problem
- Comprehensive SD-WAN capabilities to easily and securely orchestrate and interconnect your various offices and locations
- Support for our SSE and SASE portfolio of cloud-delivered network security solutions including ZTNA, SWG DNS Protection, and more
- Built-in ZTNA to enable secure and easy remote worker access
- Cloud management and reporting from Sophos Central enabling you to manage your firewalls together with your wireless networks, switches, ZTNA, endpoints, mobile devices, servers, email protection, and much more.
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Automated Threat Detection and Response
Stop Active Threats Dead in Their Tracks
Whether you choose to manage your cybersecurity on your own with Sophos Endpoints or XDR, or have Sophos do it for you with Sophos MDR, your Sophos Firewalls provide unmatched automated response to active threats. They reduce response time from minutes to seconds to stop threats dead in their tracks before they can spread:
- Automatically identify and block active threats
- Prevents lateral movement
- Get immediate insights into compromised devices, users, and applications
Powerful Performance
The XGS Series delivers Xstream performance at every price point to power the protection you need for today’s diverse, distributed, and encrypted networks.
Powered by Xstream
Accelerate and offload your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud traffic at the hardware level, and add TLS and deep packet inspection with integrated Xstream Flow Processors.
High-Speed Connectivity
Customize your firewall’s already versatile connectivity options with an extensive range of add-on modules for high-speed copper, fiber, Power over Ethernet (PoE), 4G/5G, and Wi-Fi.
Performance by Design
From the smallest entry-level device to our enterprise and campus edge models, every firewall is purpose-built to handle the most demanding workloads with a dual processor architecture, generous memory provisioning, and high-performance solid-state storage to handle the most demanding workloads.
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Xstream Protection
Sophos Firewall’s Xstream architecture protects your network from the latest threats and accelerates your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud application traffic.
TLS 1.3 Decryption
Remove an enormous blind spot with intelligent TLS inspection that’s fast and effective and supports the latest standards with extensive exceptions and point-and-click policy tools to make your job easy.
Deep Packet Inspection
Stop the latest ransomware attacks and data breaches with high-performance streaming deep packet inspection, including next-gen IPS, web protection, and app control, as well as deep learning and sandboxing powered by SophosLabs Intelix.
Application Acceleration
Accelerate your SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud traffic such as VoIP, video, and other trusted applications automatically or via your own policies, putting them on the Xstream FastPath to optimize overall performance.
Xstream SD-WAN
The latest SD-WAN capabilities in Sophos Firewall optimize network performance, flexibility, and resiliency.
Xstream FastPath Acceleration
Accelerate SD-WAN IPsec VPN tunnel flows to take full advantage of the hardware crypto capabilities of XGS Series appliances.
Performance-Based Routing
Automatically optimize routing and rerouting of traffic based on WAN link performance (latency, jitter, loss) in real time with zero impact.
Point-and-Click Orchestration
Easily set up complex hub-and-spoke or full mesh SD-WAN overlay networks with full tunnel redundancy in just a few clicks.
Pragmatic SASE for Everyone
Sophos is taking a pragmatic approach to cloud-hosted security services, delivering the key services that you’re looking to adopt first for your remote workers and branch offices:
- Integrated ZTNA gateway for secure application access
- Flexible SD-WAN and SD-RED with easy cloud orchestration
- DNS Protection for website compliance and security
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Central Cloud Management
Sophos Central: The Ultimate Cybersecurity Cloud Management Platform. Free and Easy.
One Console to Manage It All
Sophos Central provides a single cloud management console for all of your Sophos products and includes group firewall management at no extra charge.
Reporting in the Cloud
Sophos Central maintains your firewall log data in the cloud, with flexible reporting tools that enable you to analyze and visualize your network over time.
Zero-Touch Deployment
Sophos Central enables you to easily deploy new Sophos Firewalls without having to touch them.
Solutions That Fit Your Network
Sophos Firewall adapts to your network, so you don’t need to adapt your network to your firewall.
You get all of the features, versatility, and options that you need to fit your unique environment.
Don’t Take Our Word For It
Sophos Firewall is highly rated by organizations across review sites, including Gartner Peer Insights and G2
Recognized as the #1 Firewall solution by G2 users
Frost & Sullivan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award
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Gartner®️ Peer Insights™️
Customers' Choice for
Network Firewalls 2023
Sophos Firewall Recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022