ICYMI: Sophos Community July 2023 Recap

Hi Everyone,  

We’re hoping you had an amazing and productive month! Before we shift our focus to a brand-new month, we’ve got a rundown on the latest blogs, releases, and other announcements shared on the Sophos Community in July. 

We’ve had a bunch of release notes and news for our Sophos products for the past month. Make sure to catch up on the following: 

• Sophos UTM Firewall:
  • Important Changes for Sophos UTM (SG) Customers and Partners from October 1, 2023 
  • Decommissioning of obsolete URL categorization services (CFFS) on 1 September 2023 
  • UTM Up2date 9.716 released  

• Sophos Endpoint:
  • Installer Updates: Central Windows Endpoint/Server Azure Code Signing changes 

•  Sophos Email:
  • Admin Access to User Allow/Block List (And Other Enhancements) 
  • Google Directory Synchronization 

• Sophos Wireless: 
  • Wi-Fi 6/6E News: Partner News Post Just Published 

• Sophos Integrations:  
  • Updated version of Connectwise Automate plugin is now available 

• Sophos Labs: 
  • Notification of Application Control application updates Planned for the 15th August 2023 
  • Notification of Application Control application updates release for the 5th July 2023 is now complete 

• Phish Threat:
  • 7 New Phishing Templates and 4 New Training Courses 

We also published three new Recommended Reads articles that might be helpful for you: 

• Sophos Firewall: Connect Akamai SIA and Sophos Firewall 
• Sophos Firewall: How To Configure SSL VPN Remote Access When Sophos Firewall is Behind a NAT Device 
• Sophos Firewall: Users unable to authenticate via OTP 

Meanwhile, in case you haven’t seen them yet, check out these new blogs and announcements we made: 

• Partner Community Channel: Partner Briefing: Sophos Business Systems Transformation 
• Sophos NDR: NDR Early Access Program for XDR and Trial accounts 
• Sophos ZTNA: Sophos ZTNA macOS Agent - MR Announcement [Staged Rollout] 
• MDR Community Channel: Sophos MDR ThreatCast July 26, 2023 

And lastly, onto the fun stuff! We just announced the Sophos Community Top Contributors for Q2. We are truly grateful for all the valuable contributions you made. Congratulations! 

Get to know more of our Sophos Community members in these blogs: 

• Sophos Community: Partner Highlight - Mayuresh Bhagwat 
• Sophos Community: Staff Spotlight - Raphael Alganes 

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