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Differentiate Between Sophos Central Email and XG Email Security

Akeem Mckenzie over 5 years ago

I have been trying to find the difference in security level vs availability for securing my email traffic.

I have subscription for both Email in XG and Sophos Central however i am not sure which to use.

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Adithyan Thangaraj over 5 years ago

Hi Akeem Mckenzie

Thank you for your post. Email protection in XG and Sophos Central Email protection are both excellent products. I am afraid we don't have a documentation explaining the differences between the both, however the best suggestion from us is to contact your Account manager and/or sales team to discuss your environment and what would suit better.

However, please find here few relevant KBAs to know about the concepts and configurations on both the subscriptions:

Sophos XG Email protection: https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/17.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/nsg/sfos/concepts/EmailProtection.html

Sophos Central Email protection: https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/124703

Sophos XG Firewall Datasheets:

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/pdfs/factsheets/sophos-xg-series-appliances-brna.pdf

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/factsheets/sophosxgfirewallflna.pdf

Sophos Central Email protection Datasheet: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/pdfs/factsheets/sophos-email-dsna.pdf

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Adithyan Thangaraj
Community Support Engineer | Sophos Technical Support
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Akeem Mckenzie over 5 years ago in reply to Adithyan Thangaraj

Hey Adithyan,

I will review those articles and ask my account manager.

I asked the question because we have both the subscription on the xg and sophos central and not sure which one to use.

Environment: 2 Xg (1 HQ and 1 Branch)

office 365 email

Offices are connected via Site-To-Site however if the hq is used for email security and that firewall is turned off for what ever reason everything will stop.

I don't see a way to use both firewall as email security server which is why i am confused in selecting a solution.
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Red_Warrior over 5 years ago in reply to Akeem Mckenzie

If Office 365 is apart of your mail routing you will want to use Sophos email over an XG..

https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/tasks/configuresecureconnector.html

https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/configure365.html

If you are not using O365 or wish to do things like send mail site to site via vpn or similar, then the xg would be better.
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Akeem Mckenzie over 5 years ago in reply to Red_Warrior

Hey,

Currently all mail related routing is done through O365.

I will follow your advice and do the routing through Sophos Central.

Thank You.
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