XG is contacting whatfix.com when I change firewall rules

As far as i can see Sophos assistant is powered by Whatfix.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatfix)

(Block access tot Whatfix.com and the Sophos Assistant does no longer function, simple test)

Wow that seems to open up to completely new hacks ;)
If whatfix.com gets hacked youre doomed.

You should cpntact Sophos here: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/legal/sophos-gdpr

Given this info, Sophos should consider making the Assistant an item that can be easily disabled.... It is a cool feature but this does introduce some new attack vectors (some outside of anyone's control).

I'm thinking it might be that Sophos could have processes SC that monitor the contents of included code or destinations of links, etc, and sends a kill signal to XGS's if they detect a change that was not coordinated with Sophos. But that might be too iffy.

So a switch in the XG to turn it off would allow folks to make their appropriate tradeoff of security and ease-of-use.

We, of course, have the option to block outbound communications to whatfix.com, either through the XG, or endpoint, or other laptop firewall software. I've stopped it that way, but an actual switch would be nicer. And now that I think of it, I wonder if my fix has caused slight glitches in the rest of the interface... Hmmm...

I'm thinking it might be that Sophos could have processes SC that monitor the contents of included code or destinations of links, etc, and sends a kill signal to XGS's if they detect a change that was not coordinated with Sophos. But that might be too iffy.

So a switch in the XG to turn it off would allow folks to make their appropriate tradeoff of security and ease-of-use.

We, of course, have the option to block outbound communications to whatfix.com, either through the XG, or endpoint, or other laptop firewall software. I've stopped it that way, but an actual switch would be nicer. And now that I think of it, I wonder if my fix has caused slight glitches in the rest of the interface... Hmmm...