Documentation changes for the week of December 6th

Table of Contents

• Sophos Firewall
• Sophos Central

Sophos Firewall

New

• How to see the log for Sophos Transparent Authentication Suite (STAS)
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationViewSTASLog/index.html
    
    
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationViewSTASLog/#see-the-stas-log-on-the-file-system
    
    
• Sophos Firewall: Reset button behavior
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/BackupAndFirmware/Firmware/FirmwareResetToFactorySettings/
    
    
• Exclude a user from SSO in STAS
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationExcludeSSOUserSTAS/index.html
    
    
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationExcludeSSOUserSTAS/

• How to test STAS connectivity
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationTestSTASConnectivity/
    
    
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationTestSTASConnectivity/
    
    
• Configure inactivity timeout STAS
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationConfigureInactivityTimeoutSTAS/#configure-the-user-inactivity-timer
    
    
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Authentication/HowToArticles/AuthenticationConfigureInactivityTimeoutSTAS/#configure-the-user-inactivity-timer

• KB 000042083: Sophos Firewall: Unable to edit the policy parameters used for Sophos Connect VPN
  
  
• KB-000043522: Sophos Firewall: HP laptop disables wireless network when connecting to IPsec Remote Access VPN with Sophos Connect

Updated

• Reflect the feature limitation | Sophos XG 18.5 and previous versions
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Administration/DeviceAccess/AdministrationLocalServiceACLExceptionRuleAdd/

• Downloading the SSL VPN configuration file for Sophos Connect client on the user portal
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/RemoteAccessVPN/VPNRemoteAccessSSLVPNSophosConnectClient/#install-and-configure-sophos-connect-client-on-endpoint-devices

• TTL for DNS record
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/Network/DNS/NetworkDNSHostEntryAdd/
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/CommandLineHelp/DeviceConsole/Set/#dns

• Using OTP and super admin credentials to register firewalls with Sophos Central
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/SophosCentral/#register-with-sophos-central

• End-to-end flow in how-to article for IPsec remote access with Sophos Connect client
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/RemoteAccessVPN/VPNIPsecSophosConnectClient/index.html
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/RemoteAccessVPN/VPNIPsecRemoteAccessOverview/
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/RemoteAccessVPN/VPNIPsecRemoteAccessSettings/
    
    
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/RemoteAccessVPN/VPNIPsecSophosConnectClient/
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/RemoteAccessVPN/VPNIPsecRemoteAccessOverview/
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/RemoteAccessVPN/VPNIPsecRemoteAccessSettings/

• Clarification for IPsec acceleration
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/VPN/IPsecPolicies/index.html#encryption-authentication-shared-secret-and-key-life
  • https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/18.5/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/CommandLineHelp/DeviceConsole/SystemCommands/index.html#hardware-acceleration
    
    
• Added additional information under the Prerequisite section.
  • KB-000035744: Sophos Firewall: Configure High Availability
    
    
• Added a note about a Microsoft vulnerability and a recommendation to mitigate the vulnerability.
  • KB-000040209: Sophos Firewall: Web Application Firewall for Exchange 2016
    

Sophos Central

Updated

• Video added to the article.
  • KB-000035049: Sophos Central Windows Endpoint: Automate the software deployment to computers
    
    
• Added information that a Helpdesk role or higher is needed to access the function to retrieve recovery keys and Read-only accounts do not have it.
  • KB-000038500: Sophos Central Device Encryption: Retrieve recovery keys