Overview:

Sophos XG Firewall provides comprehensive next-generation firewall protection that exposes hidden risks, blocks unknown threats, and automatically responds to incidents.

Exposes hidden risks

Sophos XG Firewall provides unprecedented visibility into top risk users, unknown apps, advanced threats, suspicious payloads and much more. You also get rich on-box reporting included at no extra charge and the option to add Sophos iView for centralized reporting across multiple firewalls.

Blocks unknown threats

Sophos XG Firewall provides all the latest advanced technology you need to protect your network from ransomware and advanced threats including top-rated IPS, Advanced Threat Protection, Cloud Sandboxing, Dual AV, Web and App Control, Email Protection and a fullfeatured Web Application Firewall. And it’s easy to setup and manage.

Automatically responds to incidents

XG Firewall is the only network security solution that is able to fully identify the source of an infection on your network and automatically limit access to other network resources in response. This is made possible with our unique Sophos Security Heartbeat™ that shares telemetry and health status between Sophos endpoints and your firewall.

Potent, powerful.. fast

We’ve engineered XG Firewall to deliver outstanding performance and security efficiency for the best return on your investment. Our appliances are built using Intel multi-core technology, solid-state drives, and accelerated in-memory content scanning. In addition, Sophos FastPath packet optimization technology ensures you’ll always get maximum throughput.

Simply manage multiple firewalls

Sophos Firewall Manager provides a single console for the complete central management of multiple XG Firewalls. And if you also want to consolidate reporting across multiple XG, SG, and Cyberoam appliances then with Sophos iView, you can.

Security features you can’t get anywhere else

XG Firewall includes a number of innovations that not only make your job a lot easier, but also ensure your network is more secure.

Synchronized Security

An industry first, Synchronized Security links your endpoints and your firewall to enable unique insights and coordination. Security Heartbeat™ relays Endpoint health status and enables your firewall to immediately identify and respond to a compromised system on your network. The firewall can isolate systems until they can be investigated and cleaned up. Another Synchronized Security feature, Synchronized App Control, also enables the firewall to query the endpoint to determine the source of unknown traffic on the network.

Unified Firewall Rules

User identity takes enforcement to a whole new layer with our identity based policy technology enabling user level controls over applications, bandwidth and other network resources regardless of IP-address, location, network or device. It literally takes firewall policy to a whole new layer.

A Firewall That Thinks Like You

Pre-defined policy templates let you protect common applications like Microsoft Exchange or SharePoint quickly and easily. Simply select them from a list, provide some basic information and the template takes care of the rest. It sets all the inbound/ outbound firewall rules and security settings for you automatically – displaying the final policy in a statement in plain English.

Insights into Top Risk Users

The Sophos User Threat Quotient (UTQ) indicator is a unique feature which provides actionable intelligence on user behavior. Our firewall correlates each user’s surfing habits and activity with advanced threat triggers and history to identify users with risk-prone behavior.

Flexible deployment, no compromise

Unlike our competitors, whether you choose hardware, software, virtual or Microsoft Azure, we don’t make you compromise – every feature is available on every model and form- factor.

What's New:

XG Firewall joins Sophos Central

We’re pleased to announce that the early access program (EAP) for XG Firewall management through Sophos Central is now available for you to take a test drive.

As you probably know, Sophos Central is the ultimate cloud-management platform for all of your Sophos products, and it now includes XG Firewall. It makes day-to-day setup, monitoring, and management of your network protection easy. You can quickly and easily add all your XG Firewalls into Sophos Central, giving you secure access to your entire estate from anywhere.

With XG Firewall joining Sophos Central, you can now manage all your Sophos Synchronized Security products from a single cloud console. Intercept X and the rest of the Sophos suite of protection are all there, at your fingertips: mobile, email, wireless, and more.

How to get started in three easy steps:

1. First, you’ll need a Sophos Central account if you don’t already have one. Head on over to cloud.sophos.com to create a trial account or login, and while you’re there, enroll in the Early Access Program by clicking your account in the upper right corner of the console.
2. Next, login into your firewall and add your Sophos Central credentials to the Central Synchronization screen and select the option to Manage from Sophos Central.
3. Then, return to Sophos Central and confirm adding your Firewall. That’s it! Now you can securely access your firewall from anywhere through Sophos Central.

Additional features coming soon

Over time, additional features will be added to Sophos Central management of your XG Firewall including:

• Backup management and storage for your regularly scheduled firewall backups
• Firmware update management to make multiple firewall updates easy
• Light-touch deployment to enable easy remote setup of a new firewall

And much more!

XG Firewall v17.5 is now available

What’s new in XG Firewall v17.5

Here’s a quick overview of the key new features in v17.5:

• Synchronized Security – lateral movement protection – extends our Security Heartbeat™ automated threat isolation to prevent any threat from moving laterally or spreading across the network, even on the same subnet. The firewall instructs all healthy endpoints to completely isolate any unhealthy endpoints.
• Synchronized User ID – utilizes Security Heartbeat™ to greatly streamline authentication for user-based policy enforcement and reporting in any Active Domain network by eliminating the need for any kind of server or client agent.
• Education features – such as per-user policy-based control over SafeSearch and YouTube restrictions, teacher enabled block-page overrides, and Chromebook authentication support.
• Email features – adds Sender Policy Framework (SPF) anti-spoofing protection and a new MTA based on Exim, which closes a couple of top requested feature differences with SG Firewall.
• IPS protection – is enhanced with greatly expanded categories enabling you to better optimize your performance and protection.
• Management enhancements – including enhanced firewall rule grouping with automatic group assignment, and a custom column selection for the log viewer.
• VPN and SD-WAN failover and failback – including new IPSec failover and failback controls and SD-WAN link failback options.
• Client authentication – gets a major update with a variety of new enhancements such as per-machine deployment, a logout option, support for wake from sleep, and MAC address sharing.
• Sophos Connect – is our new IPSec VPN Client, free for all XG Firewall customers, that makes remote VPN connections easy for users, and supports Synchronized Security.

In addition, coming in a following maintenance release we have:

• Wireless APX access point support – provides support for the new Wave 2 access points providing faster connectivity and added scalability.
• Airgap support – for deployments where XG Firewall can’t get updates automatically via an internet connection (due to an “airgap” or physical isolation), XG Firewall can now be updated via USB.

Features:

Network Protection

All the protection you need to stop sophisticated attacks and advanced threats while providing secure network access to those you trust.

Next-gen Intrusion Prevention System

Provides advanced protection from all types of modern attacks. It goes beyond traditional server and network resources to protect users and apps on the network as well.

Advanced Threat Protection

Instant identification and immediate response to today’s most sophisticated attacks. Multi-layered protection identifies threats instantly and Security Heartbeat™ provides an emergency response.

Security Heartbeat

Creates a link between your Sophos Central protected endpoints and your firewall to identify threats faster, simplify investigation and minimize impact from attacks. Easily incorporate Heartbeat status into firewall policies to automatically isolate compromised systems.

Advanced VPN technologies

Adds unique and simple VPN technologies including our clientless HTML5 self-service portal that makes remote access incredibly simple or utilize our exclusive light-weight secure RED (Remote Ethernet Device) VPN technology.

Web Protection

Comprehensive web protection and application control with powerful and flexible policy tools ensure your networked users are secure and productive.

Powerful user and group web policy

Provides enterprise-level Secure Web Gateway policy controls to easily manage sophisticated user and group web controls. Apply policies based upon uploaded web keywords indicating inappropriate use or behavior.

Advanced Web Threat Protection

Backed by SophosLabs, our advanced engine provides the ultimate protection from today’s polymorphic and obfuscated web threats. Innovative techniques like JavaScript emulation, behavioral analysis, and origin reputation help keep your network safe.

High performance transparent proxy

Optimized for top performance, our transparent proxy technology provides ultra-low latency inspection and HTTPS scanning of all traffic for threats and compliance.

Application Control and QoS

Enables user-aware visibility and control over thousands of applications with granular policy and traffic-shaping (QoS) options based on application category, risk, and other characteristics. Synchronized Application Control automatically identifies all the unknown, evasive, and custom application on your network.

Sandstorm Protection

Sophos Sandstorm uses next-gen cloud-sandbox technology to give your organization an essential layer of security against ransomware and zero-day attacks.

No Additional Hardware

It integrates with your XG Firewall and is cloud-delivered so there’s no additional hardware required. Sophos Sandstorm blocks evasive threats like ransomware, disguised as executables, PDFs, and Microsoft Office documents — sending them to a cloud-sandbox to be detonated and observed in a safe environment.

Better Protected, Better Informed

Threat intelligence is fed back to your XG Firewall and the file blocked or permitted. The process takes just a couple of minutes with minimal impact for the user. And Sandstorm gives you detailed threat reports for every incident so you know exactly what’s going on.

Email Protection

Full SMTP and POP message protection from spam, phishing and data loss with our unique all-in-one protection that combines policy-based email encryption with DLP and anti-spam.

Integrated Message Transfer Agent

Ensures always-on business continuity for your email, allowing the firewall to automatically queue mail in the event servers become unavailable.

Live Anti-Spam

Provides protection from the latest spam campaigns, phishing attacks, and malicious attachments.

Self-serve Quarantine

Gives employees direct control over their spam quarantine, saving you time and effort.

SPX Email Encryption

Unique to Sophos, SPX makes it easy to send encrypted email to anyone, even those without any kind of trust infrastructure using our patent-pending password-based encryption technology.

Data Loss Prevention

Policy based DLP can automatically trigger encryption or block/notify based on the presence of sensitive data in emails leaving the organization.

Web Server Protection

Harden your web servers and business applications against hacking attempts with a full-featured Web Application Firewall while providing secure access with reverse proxy authentication.

Business Application Policy Templates

Pre-defined policy templates let you protect common applications like Microsoft Exchange Outlook Anywhere or SharePoint quickly and easily.

Protection from the latest hacks and attacks

With a variety of advanced protection technologies including URL and form hardening, deep-linking and directory traversal prevention, SQL injection and cross-site scripting protection, cookie signing and more.

Reverse proxy

With authentication options, SSL offloading, and server load balancing ensure maximum protection and performance for your servers being accessed from the internet.

How to Buy:

Every XG Firewall comes equipped with Base Firewall functionality including IPSec, SSL VPN, and Wireless Protection. You can extend protection with our bundles or by adding protection modules individually.

A simple approach to comprehensive support

We build products that are simple yet comprehensive. And, we take the same approach with our support. With options ranging from basic technical support to those including direct access to senior support engineers and customized delivery.

Synchronized Security:

Security Heartbeat™ - Your firewall and your endpoints are finally talking

Sophos XG Firewall is the only network security solution that is able to fully identify the user and source of an infection on your network and automatically limit access to other network resources in response. This is made possible with our unique Sophos Security Heartbeat™ that shares telemetry and health status between Sophos endpoints and your firewall.

The good news is, this all happens automatically, and is successfully helping numerous businesses and organizations to save time and money in protecting their environments today.

Synchronized App Control - Revealing the unknown

Using Security Heartbeat we can do much more than just see the health status of an endpoint. We also have a solution to one of the biggest problems most network administrators face today - lack of visibility into network traffic.

Synchronized App Control automatically identifies, classifies and controls custom, evasive, and generic web applications which are currently going unidentified. Because these applications become visible, policies can also be applied to them, putting them fully under your control.

But there’s more..

Synchronized Security can connect much more than just your firewall and your endpoints. Using Sophos Central as our synchronized security platform, we are adding many more solutions to improve your protection.

Sophos XG Series Appliances – at a glance:

Our XG Series hardware appliances are purpose-built with the latest multi-core Intel technology, generous RAM provisioning, and solid-state storage. Whether you’re protecting a small business or a large datacenter, you’re getting industry leading performance.

Product Matrix

* 2nd Wi-Fi module option on 135w only (requires XG v17 MR6)

Sophos XG Firewall Value Bundles

For the ultimate in protection, value, and peace-of-mind, get one of our convenient Value Bundles.

XG 105(w), XG 115(w) Specifications:

These desktop firewall appliances offer an excellent price-to-performance ratio making them ideal for small businesses or branch offices. They are available with or without integrated 802.11ac wireless LAN, so you can even have an all-inone network security and hotspot solution without the need for additional hardware. Of course, you can also add external access points. With Intel multi-core technology designed for best performance and efficiency in a small form factor, these models come equipped with 4 GbE copper ports built-in and 1 shared SFP interface, e.g. for use with our optional DSL modem or an SFP Fiber transceiver to connect the device to a server or switch. An optional second power supply provides an unmatched redundancy option in this product segment.

¹ General: Max. throughput measured under ideal test conditions using SF-OS 17.0 with App-classification disabled using industry standard Spirent /Avalanche performance test and Ixia test tools. Actual performance may vary depending on network conditions and activated services.* SFP transceivers sold separately

Documentation:

Download the Sophos XG Series Data Sheet (PDF).

Download the Sophos XG Series Sizing Guidelines (PDF).