Sophos Sandstorm Opens New Data Center in Frankfurt
Since August 20, 2019, Sophos Sandstorm has also analyzed your files in a data center in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This is especially good news for customers who are concerned about GDPR compliance or the further development of Brexit. On the XG Firewall, the selection looks like this:
Sophos Sandstorm in a nutshell
If you have licensed Email Protection or Web Protection on your Sophos Firewall, whether UTM or XG, Sophos Sandstorm can provide an extra layer of security in these modules. Files downloaded from the internet or sent by email as attachments are first analyzed more closely in a Sophos data center and then either approved or blocked. If you would like to learn more about Sophos Sandstorm, read our blog post in which we explain Sandstorm in detail.
Data centers for file analysis
The following locations are available for Sandstorm file analysis:
- Europe: Germany -> Frankfurt NEW
- Europe: United Kingdom -> London
- USA
- Asia: Japan, Tokyo
Where can I select the new Frankfurt analysis location?
Sophos does not offer Sandstorm technology only on UTM or SFOS. Sophos Sandstorm is also used on the Web Appliance and Email Appliance. However, the new Frankfurt analysis location cannot be selected manually everywhere:
- Sophos Firewall with SFOS (XG Firewall) - The “Frankfurt” location has been selectable since August 20, 2019.
- Sophos Firewall with UTM OS (SG Firewall) - The “Frankfurt” location can be selected starting with UTM version 9.7.
- Sophos Web Appliance - The “Frankfurt” location can be selected starting with version 4.3.9.
- Sophos Email Appliance - Manual selection is not possible here.
If you let the analysis location for Sandstorm be assigned automatically in the settings, “Frankfurt” will automatically be selected from October 2019 onwards, provided you are also located nearby. This is determined by latency-based routing in Amazon DNS.
