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What’southward New in v18 MR5:
VPN Enhancements
- A huge 50% increment in concurrent IPSec VPN tunnel capacity
beyond the line - Port 443 sharing betwixt SSL VPN and the Spider web Application Firewall (WAF)
- IPSec provisioning file support for remote admission vis Sophos Connect v2.1
SD-WAN
- Integration with
Azure Virtual WAN
for a complete SD-WAN overlay network
Authentication
- Integration with Azure Active Directory (acquire more)
Document Direction and Security
- Form enhancements for creating certificate signing requests and certificates
- Enhanced security for private keys
- Upload/download support for PEM format certificates
- Enhanced workflows for certificate management
Synchronized Security
- Enhanced registration and de-registration in high-availability (HA) installations
- Missing Heartbeat enhancements to reduce notifications sent for intended/expected changes in endpoint condition
Sophos Central Firewall Reporting
- New Deject Application (CASB) study
- MSP Flex Pricing for MSP partners
View the
full release notes
on the Sophos Customs Blog.
Other Recent Enhancements:
If you’re not running the latest v18 firmware on your firewall yous’re missing out on a ton of new capabilities and dozens of resolved issues. In addition to the to a higher place, these capabilities have been added in other v18 maintenance releases:
Hight Availability Enhancements
- Improved FastPath support for active-passive pairs
- HA support in AWS using the AWS Transit Gateway
- Setup, reliability and stability enhancements
VPN and Sophos Connect Remote Access Client
- A huge increase in SSL VPN connection capacity (up to 3-6x)
- Remote access IPSec policy provisioning with Sophos Connect v2.one
- Group back up for Sophos Connect which enables imports from Advertizement/LDAP/etc.
- New advanced options for IPSec remote access
- Sophos Connect downloads enabled from the user portal
- Enforcement of TLS one.2 for SSL site-to-site and remote access VPN tunnels
Synchronized Security
- A new choice for Synchronized App Control to automatically clean up discovered apps over a month old
Cloud Platform Back up
- Back up for new AWS instances (C5/M5 and T3)
- Back up for cloud formation templates
- Virtual WAN zone support on custom gateways for post deployment single arm usage
- Nutanix and Nutanix Flow support
Sophos Central
- Group Firewall Management via the Partner Dashboard
- Firmware update scheduling
- Multi-firewall reporting across firewall groups
- Relieve, Schedule and Consign reports from Sophos Fundamental
Security and Authentication Enhancements
- Stronger password hash algorithm (requires a password alter)
- Auto spider web-filtering of Internet Sentry Foundation (IWF) identified sites containing child sexual corruption
- Support for creating users with UPN format for RADIUS hallmark
Information technology’s Piece of cake and Free
Of class, all these features are a gratis upgrade for Sophos customers and as like shooting fish in a barrel equally clicking to upgrade the firmware in the Firewall console or scheduling a firmware update through Sophos Fundamental.
Upgrade to v18 today!
Now is the perfect time for your customers to upgrade. Share these fantabulous articles that will assistance your customers make the most of the many new capabilities in v18:
- Xstream architecture, DPI engine, and TLS inspection
- Xstream TLS Inspection for a modernistic encrypted Internet
- FastPath Application Dispatch and SD-WAN Routing
- Zero-day threat and ransomware protection
- Network accost translation (NAT)
- Route-based IPsec site-to-site VPN
- Switching to Sophos Central for Firewall Direction
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