XG Firewall
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Visibility Into What's Happening on Your Network

XG Firewall removes an enormous blind spot, providing extreme visibility and insight into all your network traffic, whether it’s encrypted, evasive, or elusive.

• Application Visibility
  Accelerate the applications you want and control the applications you don’t with unmatched app identification
• Network Health and Threats
  Identify suspicious or malicious threats on your network to stop attacks, hacks, and breaches instantly

Unrivaled Protection, Simplicity, and Value

XG Firewall offers the world’s best Unified Threat Management (UTM) protection that’s easier to manage, with unmatched value.

• More-in-One Protection
  XG Firewall offers more in one appliance than any other UTM, including reporting, email, and a web application firewall.
• Easier Management
  XG Firewall and Sophos Central have been designed from the start to make day-to-day management easy.
• Incredible Value
  XG Firewall includes cloud-based and on-box reporting options, plus many other capabilities that most UTM vendors will charge you extra for.

Designed With Education Institutions in Mind

XG Firewall includes features purpose-built for higher-education, K-12, and primary or secondary education institutions and the challenges you face.

• Powerful Web Filtering Policy
  Utilize built-in policies for CIPA compliance and other education specific features for SafeSearch and YouTube control.
• Child Safety and Compliance
  Get compliant immediately with our built-in policy settings and important features to monitor activity online.
• Context-aware Keyword Filtering
  Identify problematic behavior like bullying before it becomes a real issue.
• Insights into Top Risk UsersRecognize users with risky online behavior so you can take appropriate action.
• Chromebook SupportAdds to our extensive user authentication options to enable full user-based policy and reporting on every platform.
• Top-Rated Protection From ThreatsEnsures you’re not wasting time cleaning up malware outbreaks or recovering from ransomware.

Link Your Remote and Branch Sites Wherever They Are

Sophos XG Firewall and SD-RED enable you to connect sites across your geographically-distributed network.

XG Firewall Enables Your SD-WAN Goals

Replace expensive MPLS connections with lower-cost SD-WAN. XG Firewall integrates the features you need to enable your SD-WAN connectivity, quality, security, and continuity goals.

• Connect for Less
  XG Firewall lets you take advantage of less-expensive internet connectivity options such as DSL, cable, and 3G/4G/LTE.
• Optimize Application Performance
  Unlike MPLS which introduces latency by backhauling traffic from remote sites, Sophos SD-WAN connects directly to the internet for faster access to cloud applications.
• Stay Protected
  XG Firewall delivers industry-proven security against malware, ransomware, intrusions, and other threats across your entire network.
• Business ContinuityUtilize redundant connections to the same, or different, ISPs to handle routing, failover, and session preservation in the event of an outage.

Your Firewall and Endpoint – Working Together

XG Firewall is part of the world’s best cybersecurity system, integrating in real time with Sophos Central and Intercept X.

• Monitor Health and Threats
  XG Firewall and Intercept X work together to continuously share health information over Security Heartbeat™ so you know the health of your network at a glance and are instantly notified of any active threats.
• Automatic Threat Isolation
  When either XG Firewall or Intercept X identifies a threat, they work together to provide an automatic response with dynamic firewall rules and lateral movement protection isolating a compromised host to prevent spread, hacker communication, and data loss.
• 100% Application Visibility
  Intercept X is constantly sharing networked application information with XG Firewall to identify, control, and provide SD-WAN routing of your important business apps all while blocking any unwanted apps.
• Lateral Movement Protection – Your Network on AutoPilot
  XG Firewall is part of the world’s best cybersecurity system, integrating in real time with Intercept X.

Optimized for the Cloud

XG Firewall offers the world’s best network visibility, protection, and response to secure your public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

• All-in-One Protection
  XG Firewall offers all-in-one protection that integrates best-of-breed technologies into a single solution.
• Unmatched Visibility
  Extensive built-in reporting and a rich interactive dashboard highlight exactly what needs your attention the most.
• Synchronized Security
  XG Firewall integrates in real time with Intercept X for Server and Sophos Central to provide a coordinated defense against hacks and attacks.
• Central Cloud Management
  XG Firewall is managed from Sophos Central, our cloud management platform that makes day-to-day management of all your Sophos products easy and scalable.
• Deploy in Minutes
  With preconfigured virtual machines in both Azure and Amazon Web Services you can be up and running quickly.