The company just added nine new desktop firewalls to its XGS series with better connectivity. At the same time, announces the update of its Sophos Firewall software based on (SUSE) Linux. Presentation
PMore efficient, the nine new Sophos XGS firewalls also consume less energy. The Sophos Firewall software update can now use threat intelligence feeds from third-party sources to better protect businesses against cyberattacks.
New firewalls
Nothing less than 9 new XGS desktop models were presented this week by Sophos. Intended for SMEsmidmarket businesses and major account branches, the new models feature a streamlined architecture that doubles the performance of previous appliances while reducing their energy consumption by half.
All of these firewalls feature 2.5 GE interfaces, allowing traffic to flow freely and without bottlenecks, from your firewall to your 2.5 GE Switch to your Wi-Fi access point. -Fi 6. The XGS 88 to XGS 128 models feature a streamlined single-CPU architecture. As for the XGS 138 model, it has a dedicated Xstream stream processor for hardware acceleration and two 10 GE SFP+ interfaces.
In addition, these new firewalls come with multiple high-speed connectivity options, with four references being fanless, making them particularly suitable for noise-sensitive environments.
The new XGS Series desktop firewalls and Sophos Firewall software are available now through the company’s reseller network (via partners and managed service providers).
Sophos Firewall OS : nouvelle version
In addition, Sophos announces the update of its Sophos Firewall software, with better protection against cyberattacks, including the ability to integrate threat intelligence feeds from third-party sources. The new version of this software, based on a Linux system (SUSE), also improves the scalability of distributed networks while allowing users of legacy firewalls to seamlessly upgrade to the new Sophos XGS series models. With this update, the manufacturer announces that the new XGS series appliances can achieve IPsec VPN throughput up to three times higher than that of their predecessors.
Users can now configure Sophos Firewall software to ingest paid and free feeds from security vendors, managed service providers (MSPs), select industry consortia, and information sharing and analysis centers (ISACs). ) and other threat intelligence platforms.
Third-party data complements threat intelligence collected by the Sophos ) from Sophos.
The OS has a new configuration backup wizard and support for Let’s Encrypt certificates.
Sophos Firewall supports a wide range of virtualization platforms and can also be deployed as a software appliance on your own Intel x86 hardware (including KVM).
A sales brochure is available in PDF.
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