Sophos small business solutions: client firewall overview

Sophos small business solutions now includes a version of Sophos Client Firewall. The Sophos Client Firewall enables only named programs, or types of programs, on your networked computers to access the company network or the internet. By locking down your computers, it protects your network from worms, hackers and virus infection from unprotected computers and the internet.

Sophos Client Firewall is available as part of Sophos small business solutions (subject to the terms of your license). It is installed in conjunction with Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition (SBE) as part of Sophos Computer Security.

• Sophos Client Firewall can only run on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP.
• Sophos Client Firewall is not available for server operating systems
• Sophos Client Firewall must not be used on a workstation running the Sophos Control Center.

See the Sophos small business solutions startup guide and manual and the client firewall administrator rollout guidelines for information on installing and configuring the client firewall.

Installing and configuring Sophos Client Firewall

1. Rollout guidelines
2. Default configuration
3. Exporting and importing configurations
4. Outbound only mode
5. Named program mode
6. Custom configuration
7. Advanced custom configuration
8. Merging configurations
9. Setting up the client firewall with standard applications
10. Windows Update rules

Troubleshooting Sophos Client Firewall

1. Reverting to the default configuration
2. Disabling the firewall