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2FA Missing on Quarantine Website

LRSpartan

We currently use SEA on-premise and restrict the quarantine site to local IPs. I tested the cloud version, but it does not have 2FA on the quarantine site. SSO does not count as 2FA. Both our government regulatory and cyber insurance company have said we cannot use the cloud version since 2FA is not implemented on the quarantine site. Does Sophos plan to put 2FA on the quarantine site? From a security perspective, I am surprised this is not in place. Also restricting login by IP would be great too.

Thank you,

John



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  • 0 in reply to Tom Foucha

    Hi Tom,

    Thank you for your help and comments! SSO helps simplify the sign-in process where as 2FA is a security process. So SSO isn't a replacement for 2FA. I definitely understand your constraints, and I am sure you appreciate mine. I would prefer that we stay with Sophos for email filtering. I was hoping we could use our XG's email capability, but it is not as advanced as the SEA or EM. I would appreciate any recommendations for a replacement.

    John

  • +1 in reply to LRSpartan

    John, I just spoke with the Product Manager for Central and they have MFA scheduled to be delivered Q4 of this year for multiple areas of the product. I'd say Sept/Oct timeframe. I understand if you can't wait that long but just wanted to let you know.

  • 0 in reply to Tom Foucha

    Tom,

    Thank you for the update. I am thinking about purchasing the advanced email filter for our XG and using it until MFA is ready. Unfortunately, the advanced is still less robust on email than the lower end SG. :/ 

    One more ask of the PM...IP restrict login for the quarantine site. Frankly, if it had that, we wouldn't need all the MFA business.

    John

  • 0 in reply to LRSpartan

    What’s the point of being a cloud system if users can’t access it from the cloud? You want users to have to vpn into a corporate network just to access a quarantine? I’m old school but the cloud is here! ZTNA and other controls protect resources. 

    I don’t control the XG products so not the expert on its capabilities. 

  • 0 in reply to Tom Foucha

    I hear ya, but our business model and clientele base require utmost security and privacy. When we go to a board meeting and first question asked if we are in the cloud and we say no...huge plus for us. Except for our backup with is encrypted by SafeGuard, also going away, and another FIPS 140-2 method, everything else is kept on site. The number of times that we hear people and businesses being hacked in the O365 Cloud, no way we could risk that. Plus cyber insurance is going to force everything out of the cloud or make it to painful to work in the cloud. So why go to the cloud. Sure, businesses that don't have a need for information security will be fine in the cloud, but those of us that require that, no way. A quarter of our clients are actively moving their data back to onsite. It 's a trade off of risk. The onsite known vs the cloud unknown. Plus...it many cases it is cheaper once all cost are considered.

  • 0 in reply to LRSpartan

    Sounds like debates I had 7-10+ years ago lol...even the US Govt is moving to the cloud, GovCloud and other FedRAMP services. As for CyberInsurance we work with some Insurance companies. I wouldn't say being on premise prevents the business from being hacked and sure you wouldn't either. Mailbox compromise doesn't care where the server sits, cloud, premise. I've run corporate systems onsite and in the cloud and while companies may bring some services back in house they cannot sustain inhouse for all services, well unless they are not doing payroll, insurance, 401k, travel, salesforce etc.... thanks for the discussion...

  • 0 in reply to Tom Foucha

    We know we can be hacked on-site, but it is about a trade off of risk. Ultimately, we do what our clients want and our cyber security insurance policy prices the cloud out.

    Thank you for your comments too.

  • 0 in reply to Tom Foucha

    Good morning Tom,

    Do you know if this is still on schedule?

    Thank you,

    John

  • 0 in reply to LRSpartan

    Last I spoke with the Central Product Management team (2 weeks ago) it was on schedule for Q4 of this year. If I hear otherwise I will post.

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