Documentation changes for the week of November 8th

Table of Contents

• Sophos Firewall
• Sophos Central
• Other

Sophos Firewall

New

• A new article on how to reset the Sophos Firewall XGS series models to factory settings using the reset button.
  • KB-000043320: Sophos Firewall: XGS hard factory reset
    
    

Updated 

• A link to the article Sophos Firewall: XGS hard factory reset was added.
  • KB-000038527: Sophos Firewall: Disaster recovery
  • KB-000035721: Sophos Firewall: Reset to factory default
    
    

Sophos Central

New

• Ransomware Protection Exclusions (EAP)
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/common/tasks/RansomwareExclusions.html
    
    
• Detections
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/Detections.html
    
    
• Account health check
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/AccountHealthCheck.html
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/tasks/FixEndpointProtection.html
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/tasks/FixServerProtection.html
    
    
• AD Sync FAQs
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/ADSyncInstallFAQ.html
    
    
• Firewall alerts
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/FirewallAlerts.html
    
    

Updated

• Ransomware Protection Exclusions (EAP)
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/common/references/MitigationExclusionsVariables.html
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/ConfigureMalwareProtection.html
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/ServerConfigureMalwareProtection.html
    
    
• Detections
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/XDR.html
    
    
• AD Sync FAQ
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/ADSyncFAQ.html

• Supported macOS versions for Device Encryption
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/DEFAQMac.html
    
    
• Updated API role information for Active Directory Synchronization
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/learningContents/ActiveDirectorySyncSetup.html
    
    
• Email Allow/Block list
  • https://docs.sophos.com/central/Customer/help/en-us/central/Customer/concepts/EmailSettingsAllowBlock.html
    
    

Other

Updated

• Uploaded the new 2021 version of the license transfer form.
  • Sophos license transfer workflow
    
    
• Minor content update made to reflect the current detection behavior of Sophos products.
  • Understanding context-based detection