Powerful protection and performance
All the firewall features you need
Expose hidden risks
Superior visibility into risky activity, suspicious traffic, and advanced threats helps you regain control of your networks
Stop unknown threats
Powerful next-gen protection technologies like deep learning and intrusion prevention help keep your organization secure
Isolate infected systems
Automatic threat response instantly identifies and isolates compromised systems on your network to stop threats from spreading
Visibility and protection
Sophos Firewall offers the best protection to stop the latest hacks and attacks dead in their tracks – before they get on your network.
Deep packet inspection
The Xstream DPI Engine provides high-performance traffic scanning for intrusion prevention (IPS), antivirus (AV), web protection, and app control in a single streaming engine
TLS 1.3 inspection
Next-gen IPS
Zero-day threat protection
Proxy-based dual-engine AV scanning
Perimeter defenses
Country-based blocking policy
Encrypted traffic inspection
Xstream TLS 1.3 inspection with industry-leading performance, visibility, policy tools, and built-in intelligence removes an enormous blind spot in your protection
TLS 1.3 without downgrading
Hardware acceleration
Intelligent traffic selection
Prepackaged exception list
Powerful policy engine
Covers all ports/protocols
Supports all modern cipher suites
Unmatched visibility and error handing
Zero-day and machine learning (ML) protection
Sophos Firewall leverages Sophos' industry-leading ML technology, powered by SophosLabs Intelix, to instantly identify the latest ransomware and unknown threats before they get on your network
SophosLabs data scientists
Multiple ML models
Static file analysis
Dynamic file analysis
Cloud sandbox
Sophos zero-day dynamic file analysis uses next-gen cloud sandboxing, powered by deep learning and Sophos Endpoint technology, to protect against zero-day threats, including new ransomware and targeted attacks coming in through phishing, spam, or web downloads
Dynamic sandboxing analysis
Deep learning static file analysis
Web protection
Sophos' web protection engine is backed by SophosLabs Intelix and includes innovative technologies required to identify and block the latest web threats
Advanced web protection
Pharming protection
HTTPS scanning
Potentially unwanted app control
SophosLabs
DNS protection
Sophos DNS Protection provides a high-performance, cloud-based domain name resolution service for website compliance and security
Cloud-delivered name resolution
Powered by SophosLabs and AI technology
Blocks access to the latest malicious sites
Enables granular compliance policy enforcement
NDR Essentials
Sophos NDR Essentials provides a cloud-hosted Network Detection and Response solution to offload processing from the firewall while providing advanced AI detection of suspicious URLs and encrypted payloads
Cloud-delivered NDR
Powered by AI
Detects domain-generation algorithms
Detects suspicious encrypted payloads without decryption
Synchronized Security™
Our revolutionary Security Heartbeat™ links your Sophos-managed endpoint with your firewall to share health and other valuable information to enable an automated and coordinated response, isolate threats, and prevent lateral movement
Security Heartbeat
Active threat response
Lateral movement protection
Destination heartbeat protection
Synchronized app control
Synchronized user ID
Active Threat Response
Sophos Firewall provides an immediate and automated response to active threats and adversaries to stop them dead in their tracks and prevent lateral movement
Multiple threat feeds supported, including those from Sophos X-Ops, Sophos MDR, and third parties
Blocks active threats immediately without the need for firewall rules
Utilizes Sophos Synchronized Security to automatically isolate managed endpoints, provide visibility, and protect against lateral movement
User identity
User identity-based policies and unique user risk analyses give you the knowledge and power to regain control of your users before they become a serious threat to your network
Powers all firewall policies and reporting
User threat quotient (UTQ) identifies the top-risk users on your network
Synchronized user ID
Flexible authentication options including directory services
Two-factor authentication (2FA) and one-time password support for access to key system areas
Application control
Complete visibility and control over allapplications on your network with deep packet scanning technology
Synchronized app control can identify all the unidentified applications currently running on your network
Visibility and control over thousands of applications
Cloud access security broker (CASB) cloud app visibility
Generative AI visibility and control
Synchronized app control
User-based application policies
Traffic shaping (QoS) prioritizes bandwidth allocation to critical applications and limits bandwidth for non-business applications
Web control
Full visibility and control over all your web traffic with flexible enforcement tools that work the way you need, with options for user and group enforcement of activity, quotas, schedules, and traffic shaping
Enterprise secure web gateway (SWG) policy model
Support for Sophos DNS Protection
Template-driven activity control with predefined workplace and compliance policies
Education and SafeSearch features
Comprehensive traffic enforcement
Traffic shaping (QoS)
Content control
Flexible, user-based monitoring and control of keyword content and downloadable content, including file types via FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS
Web keyword monitoring
File download filtering templates
Policy-based outbound email DLP
Web caching
Business applications
Combine next-gen firewall capabilities with our enterprise-class web application firewall to protect your critical business applications from hacks and attacks while still enabling authorized access
Next-generation IPS
Web application firewall
Granular, user-based protection
Email and data
Protect your email from spam, phishing, and data loss with our unique all-in-one protection that combines policy-based email encryption with DLP and anti-spam
Full Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) store-and-forward support
Live anti-spam
Secure PDF Exchange (SPX) encryption
Policy-based DLP
Self-serve user portal