Release Notes & News

Sophos Cloud Optix has now been certified by CIS (Center for Internet Security) to accurately assess AWS, Azure and GCP environments based on best practices for secure configuration. Developed through a unique consensus-based process comprised of cybersecurity professionals and subject matter experts around the world, CIS Benchmarks are recommended as industry-accepted system hardening standards and are used by organizations...

Today’s Cloud Optix release is packed with several new features to increase security and compliance of customer environments, including a breakthrough in IAM visualization. Improving security for anyone running workloads on public cloud Managing user roles, permissions, and role-based access to AWS services is an enormous challenge. The scale and interwoven nature of individual and group access to services...

The Cloud Optix product team has been hard at work delivering a host of great enhancements to the Cloud Optix service over the November-December period. Check out these latest updates below – all included with your existing Cloud Optix license. Cloud Optix Management Enhancements Cloud Optix is now live on Sophos Central Integrated into Sophos Central, access to Cloud Optix is seamless, with no separate...

Sophos Cloud Optix customers may have received an email from AWS regarding the upcoming EOL of support for Node.js 8.10 runtime for Lambda functions. The Sophos Cloud Optix service used Node.js 8.10 until December 9, 2019. Since Node.js versions are deprecated frequently by AWS for Lambda, we have now changed the Cloud Optix Lambda functions to use Python, instead of Node.js. The version of Python that the Cloud Optix...

The latest release for Cloud Optix integrates the service seamlessly into Sophos Central. Allowing you to manage Cloud Optix alongside a range of complimentary public cloud solutions including Intercept X for Server and XG Firewall in a single management console. Activate in seconds. Fully integrated into Sophos Central, access to Cloud Optix is seamless, with no separate sign up required and single sign on with your...

We’ve been hard at work delivering a plethora of great enhancements to the Sophos Cloud Optix service over the July-September period. We’re moving fast, so make sure you keep up with the latest updates to Sophos’ latest offering for the public cloud. Cloud Optix management enhancements Refreshed environment on-boarding instructions. The design and content of the 'Add your cloud environment'...

The latest update to Sophos Cloud Optix is packed with new features. Adding the ability to visualize Sophos UTMs on AWS networks, improving Azure security and compliance features, Google network topology visualization and AI, configurable scanning frequency and much more. The latest Cloud Optix feature updates Amazon Web Services Sophos UTM integration now displays Sophos UTMs in the AWS topology visualization...

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