New Sophos Central login experience coming soon

6 Dec 2021

[Updated 12/7/2021 - Clarity regarding MFA]

Hi, everyone -

We wanted to give you a heads up about a new Sophos Central login experience that will be launching early next year.

Beginning in mid-January when logging in, users will enter only their email address, at which point one of three things will happen depending upon their federation status:

Local login/non-federated: The user will simply enter their password and proceed to multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Federated login only: The user will be passed to their identity provider to complete the login
Both: The user will be able to choose whether to enter their password/MFA or proceed to the identity provider login

We plan to gradually roll out this new login experience starting in the middle of January, with the goal of completing the rollout by the end of January.

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James Marsden over 1 year ago

Not a big deal, but this is a worse experience for OAuth login than before, I now need to enter my email address before the "Sign in with Microsoft" button appears. Any plans to put it back on the initial login page?
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MichaelOwens over 1 year ago in reply to ESMsw09

I dont use DUO, but I know this already works with Microsoft and Goggle's authenticator app.

And while you can't use push notifications for your 2nd factor, you get something even smoother with this federation feature if you have SSO setup through O365.
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Alex Sanders over 1 year ago in reply to Erik Bjers

I agree. When will we have the ability to use an iDP outside of O365?
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SaschaP over 1 year ago in reply to Jiri Hadamek

You actually "experience" the change in the way that the sequence and look of the screens are changed to accomodate the inclusion of many IDP (before you actually enter a password) - so it will be a similar "experience" like a Microsoft account login
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