Understanding Sophos Firewall performance data correctly
You can find firewall performance data on our product page, in the firewall comparison table, or in the Sophos firewall datasheet. To choose the right model, it is important to…
Sophos Firewall
Here you can find useful articles on topics related to the SG (UTM) or XGS (SFOS) firewall from Sophos.
Sophos Firewall Sizing Guide – Choose the right XGS Firewall
As a business, it’s critical to protect your networks from the many threats that lurk on the Internet every day. A firewall is an indispensable tool that controls traffic on…
Sophos Product Lifecycle Calendar – End-of-Sale / End-of-Life
This page lists Sophos products that are End-of-Sale or End-of-Life. The lifecycle calendar also lists new products that will be released, Glossary End-of-Sale (EOS) The End-of-Sale date is the last…
How to create Sophos Firewall Bypass Rule
You can disable the Web filter, Intrusion prevention, Application Control, Advanced Threat Protection or other security features on the firewall. But the traffic still passes through the packet filter. To…
Sophos Firewall Troubleshooting – iPerf Speedtest
Sophos firewalls are one of the firewalls on the market that offer a lot of performance for the price. At least if you choose a firewall that is not too…
How to disable Captcha for Web Admin and User Portal on Sophos Firewall
The origin of this feature was a security vulnerability in SFOS. Since version 18.0.3, this captcha has been available for the Web Admin Login and the User Portal. This was…
How to document Sophos Firewall rule easily
In this article I explain how to document a firewall rule at least a little better with minimal effort. Probably only very few of us have the time to document…
How to restart Services on Sophos Firewall
Even a Sophos Firewall is just a operating system on a piece of hardware. And like any other operating system, there are security vulnerabilities, updates or services that can hang,…
Set up Sophos Firewall as NTP server
The title is, technically speaking, incorrect, as the Sophos Firewall does not run an NTP service. However, this can be solved with a NAT rule so that the Sophos Firewall…
How to restart Sophos Firewall Web Admin GUI
It may happen that the admin web interface is no longer accessible and only the message is displayed instead: Internal Error In our experience, this often happens when there are…