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So is Sophos XG and Sophos UTM both going to run side by side as separate products now?

So I have been using Sophos UTM for a while now and i really liked it, but when i saw Sophos XG I thought it was an upgrade from UTM so i decided to test it out.  But from what I have experienced they seem to be completely different products but do have some overlap.

So is Sophos going to EOL the UTM line now or will it continue alongside XG?  

Thanks

JK



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  • Yeah, the UTM and XG are quite different. At this time, I'm not aware of any plans to discontinue the UTM. It will still be supported for quite some time.

    The XG firewall pretty much adds more functionality to the UTM. The main feature you gain is the security heartbeat that allows your endpoints to integrate with the firewall. If you're interested, there's a little more information available here: https://blogs.sophos.com/2015/11/09/xg-firewall-faq/

  • GtVYU said:

    The XG firewall pretty much adds more functionality to the UTM. The main feature you gain is the security heartbeat that allows your endpoints to integrate with the firewall. If you're interested, there's a little more information available here: https://blogs.sophos.com/2015/11/09/xg-firewall-faq/

    I think it would be more accurate to say XG (i.e. Cyberoam) offers different functionality than the UTM.  For it to add "more" functionality, there would first have to be feature parity with UTM ... and there is much more to do to get there.  That lack of feature parity is behind most of the negative comments about SFOS. 

    That may appear to be parsing words, but "words are important". 

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  • GtVYU said:

    The XG firewall pretty much adds more functionality to the UTM. The main feature you gain is the security heartbeat that allows your endpoints to integrate with the firewall. If you're interested, there's a little more information available here: https://blogs.sophos.com/2015/11/09/xg-firewall-faq/

    I think it would be more accurate to say XG (i.e. Cyberoam) offers different functionality than the UTM.  For it to add "more" functionality, there would first have to be feature parity with UTM ... and there is much more to do to get there.  That lack of feature parity is behind most of the negative comments about SFOS. 

    That may appear to be parsing words, but "words are important". 

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