Next-Gen Network Security: Intelligent Protection for Modern Businesses
Leverage advanced firewall and AI-driven threat prevention to keep your network secure and resilient.
Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats with AI-Powered Network Security
The modern threat landscape is evolving rapidly, with sophisticated cyberattacks targeting businesses of all sizes. Traditional security measures are no longer enough to safeguard your network against zero-day threats, ransomware, and advanced persistent attacks.
Sophos Network Security delivers a comprehensive, AI-driven security ecosystem that protects your organization from cyber threats while simplifying management and ensuring seamless connectivity. By integrating next-generation firewalls, network detection and response (NDR), and zero trust network access (ZTNA) into a unified, cloud-managed ecosystem, Sophos provides full visibility, proactive threat mitigation, and seamless connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Sophos Network Security Solutions Portfolio
Sophos Firewall: Intelligent Threat Defense and Network Control
Sophos Firewall is more than just a barrier between your internal network and external threats. It is an AI-powered security platform that provides intelligent protection, automated incident response, and deep visibility into network traffic. As the cornerstone of your network’s defense, Sophos Firewall is engineered to prevent, detect, and respond to threats at every layer of your network.
Core Features
Full Next-Gen Firewall
Experience industry-leading protection and performance optimized for the modern encrypted internet, ensuring your network is safeguarded against sophisticated cyber threats
Integration with Sophos MDR and Sophos XDR
Benefit from automated threat response and synchronized security, stopping threats before they can cause serious problems.
Comprehensive SD-WAN Capabilities
Easily and securely orchestrate and interconnect your various offices and locations, enhancing connectivity and operational efficiency.
Integration with Cloud-Delivered Network Security Solutions
Achieve full visibility and proactive threat mitigation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with solutions like Sophos Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), DNS Protection, and Zero-Day Threat Protection.
Built-in ZTNA
Ensure secure and easy remote worker access, providing peace of mind and flexibility for your workforce.
Cloud Management and Reporting from Sophos Central
Simplify management and enhance control by managing operations across all your firewalls, wireless networks, switches, ZTNA, endpoints, mobile devices, servers, email protection, and more from a single cloud platform.
What You Get with Sophos Firewall
Automatic Response to Active Threats
Gain peace of mind knowing that threats are automatically detected and neutralized in real-time, preventing potential damage and ensuring your network remains secure.
Powerful Protection and Performance
Experience robust security and high performance, ensuring your network can handle encrypted internet traffic while blocking sophisticated cyber threats, keeping your business safe and efficient.
Work from Anywhere, Safely and Securely
Enable secure remote access for employees, ensuring they can work from any location without compromising the security of sensitive data and applications.
Managed Through a Single Console
Simplify your IT management by controlling all security operations from a unified cloud platform, enhancing visibility and control over your entire security infrastructure, and making administration more efficient.
Key Technologies and Innovations
SD-WAN Capabilities
The latest SD-WAN capabilities in Sophos Firewall optimize network performance, flexibility, and resiliency. These capabilities allow for efficient traffic routing, load balancing, and seamless connectivity across multiple locations, ensuring your network remains robust and adaptable.
Xstream Architecture
The Sophos Firewall Xstream architecture protects your network by offloading trusted traffic to the FastPath, ensuring high performance without compromising security. This architecture includes deep packet inspection, TLS inspection, and intelligent traffic management, providing comprehensive protection and visibility.
XGS Series Next-Gen Firewall Appliances
The XGS Series of next-gen firewall appliances delivers Sophos Xstream-accelerated performance. These appliances feature dual-processor architecture, combining a multi-core x86 CPU with a dedicated Xstream Flow Processor, ensuring high throughput and low latency for demanding network environments.
Active Threat Response
Sophos Firewall with Active Threat Response provides instant and automated responses to active threats. By leveraging threat intelligence feeds and integrating with Sophos MDR and XDR, the firewall can quickly identify and neutralize threats, preventing potential damage and ensuring continuous protection.
Sophos Firewall:
The #1 Firewall Solution
Sophos Firewall has been consistently recognized as the #1 firewall solution by G2 users. In the Winter 2024 Reports, it was rated the top firewall solution based on high customer satisfaction scores and a strong market presence. This recognition has been repeated in multiple G2 seasonal reports, highlighting the firewall’s robust performance, comprehensive security features, and positive user feedback.
Source: Grid® Report for Firewall Software | Winter 2024
Sophos Network Detection and Response (NDR): Advanced Threat Hunting and AI-Powered Network Protection
Sophos Network Detection and Response (NDR) provides unparalleled visibility into network traffic, detecting threats that traditional firewalls and endpoint security often miss. By leveraging machine learning and sophisticated analytics, Sophos NDR continuously monitors network traffic to identify and mitigate potential threats. This includes detecting rogue assets, unprotected devices, insider threats, and zero-day attacks.
How It Works
Sophos NDR monitors network traffic deep within the network, identifying suspicious activities and potential threats. This data is sent to Sophos Central’s data lake for further analysis. If an active threat or adversary is detected, analysts can push a threat feed to Sophos Firewall, which then coordinates an Active Threat Response. This response isolates and blocks malicious activity automatically in real-time, ensuring robust network protection.
Sophos NDR Key Features: 5 Independent
Detection Engines That Work in Real-Time
Data Detection Engine
Uses a deep learning prediction model to analyze encrypted traffic for patterns across unrelated network flows and detect port scanning and SSH brute force activity
Deep Packet Inspection
Identifies threat actors and malicious tactics, techniques, and procedures across encrypted and unencrypted network traffic using known indicators of compromise
Data Detection Engine
Detects zero-day command-and-control (C2) servers and new variants of malware families based on patterns found in session size, direction, and interarrival times.
Domain Generation Algorithm
Identifies dynamic domain generation technology used by malware to avoid detection
Session Risk Analytics
Utilizes powerful logic engine rules to send alerts based on session-based risk factors.
Some of the Key Benefits of Sophos NDR
Enhanced Visibility
Achieve comprehensive insight into your network, including unmanaged systems, IoT devices, and rogue assets, ensuring nothing goes unnoticed.
Automated Response
Enjoy peace of mind with automated responses that isolate and block malicious activity in real-time, thanks to seamless integration with Sophos Firewall
Comprehensive Analysis
Utilize advanced machine learning and deep learning models to analyze both encrypted and unencrypted traffic, identifying sophisticated threats that might otherwise be missed
Reduced Risk
Identify and address unprotected devices and unauthorized systems, closing security gaps and reducing the risk of breaches.
Improved Security Posture
Maintain a robust security posture against evolving cyber threats through continuous monitoring and analysis of network traffic.
Sophos ZTNA: Zero Trust Network Access for Secure Connectivity
Sophos ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) is designed to provide secure connectivity for networked applications. It follows the Zero Trust principle of “Trust Nothing, Verify Everything,” ensuring that devices and users must prove their trustworthiness before accessing corporate applications and data. This approach enhances security by connecting users only to specific applications rather than the entire network, reducing the risk of lateral movement by threats.
Components of Sophos ZTNA
Sophos Central
The cloud-based management platform where you can configure and monitor all your Sophos security products, including ZTNA, that provides a unified interface for managing policies, viewing reports, and ensuring compliance.
Sophos ZTNA Gateway
Acting as the gatekeeper for your networked applications, this verifies the identity and security posture of users and devices before granting access to specific applications, ensuring that only trusted entities can connect.
Sophos ZTNA Agent
Installed on user devices, the ZTNA Agent enforces security policies and controls access to applications, ensuring that devices meet security requirements and provides secure connectivity to authorized applications.
Features of Sophos ZTNA
Identity Verification
Ensures only authenticated users can access applications by integrating with identity providers like Microsoft Azure Active Directory and providing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for added security
Device Health Checks
Verifies the security posture of devices before granting access, checking for compliance with security policies such as up-to-date antivirus, encryption status, and operating system patches.
Micro-Segmentation
Limits access to specific applications rather than the entire network, reducing the risk of lateral movement by threats and ensuring that users only access the resources they need.
Continuous Authentication
Regularly re-authenticates users and devices to maintain security, ensuring that access is continuously verified and any changes in security posture are detected in real-time.
Cloud Management
Offers a cloud-based platform for easy deployment, policy configuration, and monitoring, allowing administrators to manage security from a single interface
Key Benefits
Enhanced Security
You will enjoy improved security by eliminating vulnerable VPN clients, integrating device health checks, and ensuring access is based on health and identity, reducing the risk of breaches.
Easy Management
Managing your network security becomes effortless with a scalable, cloud-delivered solution that is managed through Sophos Central, offering a single-agent, single-console setup for simplicity.
Transparent Experience
Your users will have a seamless experience, whether they are at home, in the office, or on the go, with fewer disruptions and support calls, making IT management smoother.
Control Access to SaaS Apps
Gain secure access control to SaaS applications like Salesforce and Dropbox using ZTNA and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
Onboard New Apps and Users Quickly
Deploy new applications and enroll or decommission users and devices swiftly, making day-to-day administration easier.
The Unified Sophos Network Security
Advantage
security strategy, your organization can benefit from:
360° Visibility
Full-spectrum monitoring across network perimeters, internal traffic, and remote endpoints.
Seamless Integration
Unified management through Sophos Central simplifies operations and enhances threat intelligence sharing.
Proactive & Automated Defense
AI-driven detection and automated remediation dramatically reduce incident response times.
Future-Proof Security
An adaptive framework that evolves with the threat landscape, ensuring continuous protection in a dynamic environment
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