Sophos Firewall, much more than a firewall

Consolidate 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.

Sophos Firewall includes more than any other firewall:

• Full next-gen firewall optimized for the modern encrypted internet, offering industry-leading protection and performance
• Integration with Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR for automated threat response and synchronized security to stop threats before they cause a serious problem
• Comprehensive SD-WAN capabilities that let you easily and securely orchestrate and interconnect your various offices and locations
• Integration with our cloud-delivered network security solutions, including Sophos Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), DNS Protection, Zero-Day Threat Protection, and more
• Built-in ZTNA for secure and easy remote worker access
• Cloud management and reporting from Sophos Central for managing operations across all your firewalls, wireless networks, switches, ZTNA, endpoints, mobile devices, servers, email protection, and more

Unrivaled performance

The XGS Series of next-gen firewall appliances delivers Sophos Xstream-accelerated performance at every price point to power the protection you need for today’s diverse, distributed, and encrypted networks.

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The Sophos Xstream architecture accelerates and offloads your important SaaS, SD-WAN, VPN, and cloud traffic at the hardware or software level from our deep packet inspection (DPI) engine. On some models, it performs Transport Layer Security (TLS) and DPI using integrated Sophos Xstream Flow processors.

High-speed connectivity

Customize your firewall’s already versatile networking options with an extensive range of add-on modules for high-speed copper, fiber, Power over Ethernet (PoE), 5G, and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Performance by design

From the smallest entry-level device to our enterprise and campus edge models, every Sophos Firewall is custom-built to handle the most demanding workloads. Striking the perfect balance between performance, value, and efficiency, our hardware appliances unlock the high-speed connectivity you need to prevent bottlenecks and reap the full potential of your network.

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Xstream protection and acceleration

The Sophos Firewall Xstream architecture protects your network from the latest threats and accelerates your important SaaS, SD-WAN, VPN, and cloud application traffic.

TLS 1.3 decryption

Remove an enormous blind spot with intelligent TLS inspection that’s fast and effective. Sophos Firewalls support the latest standards with extensive exceptions customizability and point-and-click policy tools that make your job easy.

Deep packet inspection

Stop the latest ransomware attacks and data breaches using high-performance DPI with next-gen intrusion prevention (IPS), web protection, and application control capabilities. Deep learning and sandboxing powered by SophosLabs Intelix threat intelligence provide zero-day protection and threat classification.

Application boost

Accelerate your SaaS, SD-WAN, VPN, and trusted cloud traffic such as VoIP and video automatically or using your own policies, putting them on the Xstream FastPath to optimize overall performance.

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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 our powerful XGS Series firewall appliances.

Performance-based routing

Automatically optimize traffic routing and rerouting based on real-time WAN link latency, jitter, and packet loss metrics.

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.

Extending network protection and performance via the cloud

Sophos Firewall leverages the Sophos Cloud to ensure that your organization is protected from the latest threats and further maximize performance.

You get the latest AI and machine learning technology from SophosLabs working to identify previously unseen threats and malicious URLs. Using a common cloud, any new threat attacking a single Sophos customer is instantly shared across all our customers, blocking it everywhere. In addition, by offloading this analysis from your firewall to the cloud, your performance is boosted even further.

What you get:

• Instant high-speed blocking of the latest malicious URLs with our cloud-based DNS
• Protection from any new zero-day file-based threat, thanks to machine learning and cloud-based sandboxing, which detonate it in a safe environment
• Secure application access to make your apps invisible to hackers while providing secure access for your remote workers with built-in ZTNA
• Easy cloud-hosted SD-WAN tools for securely interconnecting your remote locations and public cloud infrastructure
• A single cloud management console to manage your cybersecurity, share data and telemetry, and enable automated threat response