Important note about SSL VPN compatibility for 20.0 MR1 with EoL SFOS versions and UTM9 OS. Learn more in the release notes.

  • Ips not working on home edition

    Hi All I'm using sophos home addition Since four weeks i'm struggle to Make it work Ips But no luck e My hardware is Intel i7 8700 cpu 8gb Ram with Intel i350 nic Firmware 19.5.3mr Any help will be appreciated Thanks
  • WEb ExPloit PRotecTion

    Is EXPloit Protection, work Out of the Box? Now I Find ‘ Detect and prevent exploits (IPS)’. lantoWan- general policy Which I’ve enabled. Is That the full extent of it, and A feature that Works under the Hood? Is There Any solid inFormation in XG, and…
  • IPS rule LAN-LAN

    Hi everyone, I have two firewalls connected by a dark fiber on a SFP port, the two main LAN networks are 192.168.1.0/24(FW1) and 192.168.0.0/24(FW2). In both firewalls there is a rule to allow all traffic between the two subnets, so the source and destination…
  • Build-In IPS policies: Differences?

    Because the online-help is pretty useless regarding this question: What is the difference between the policies on top and the last ones (in small letters)? What are better? Why double build-in?
  • IPS policy for site-to-site VPN

    What IPS policy should I use in the Lan to Lan rule? (vpn site to site) Thanks
  • what are the possibilities of xg home firewall with limited hardware [THREAT PROTECTION, TLS INSPECTION]

    what traffic can be handled in version 4 core, 6Gb RAM in relation to IPS/IDS
  • Signature Sinkhole

    Firmware version 17.0 have this signature but firmware version 18.5, 19.0, and 19.5 do not have this signature. Can anyone have firewall firmware version 19.5.1 and search in IPS policies have this signature and capture image reply me pls.. Thanks in…
  • Can I disable a single Signature ID within IPS?

    We have software that goes out to a distributors website and downloads updates. Part of these updates is a batch of Word documents in .docx format that have some ActiveX controls in them that are used for automation. They cannot be removed and are a normal…
  • False Positives

    Hello, we are having some trouble with Zoom meetings where the sound is briefly dropping at times. Sometimes we get the network quality message. I may have traced the problem to some of the meeting traffic getting flagged as Proxy and Tunnel (x-vpn…
  • IPS and SSL Inspection best practice

    Hello I wondering how effective can be IPS in XGS series without decrypting SSL traffic. It is worth to configure without ssl inspection when i want to protect web servers (IIS, nginx, apache)?
  • Block all IPs on known Abuse list

    I would think this feature should be readily available, but I am unable to find a way to do this. I want to block all IPs that appear on known abuse lists from our network. We are running an XG firewall. So far the rule blocking IPs by country has…
  • XG 19.5 IPS Email Alert Flood - SMTP DoS?

    My org had an event last week where a false positive IPS alert was being thrown. This caused over 1400 email alerts within 20 minutes before anyone could get to it and shut it down. When I looked at the email logs it looks like it was sending 3-4 emails…
  • Are there plans to include an "anti-portscan" feature in sophos XG?

    The UTM has an essential feature called "anti-portscan" that is seperate from DoS protection.Anti-portscan, if you are not aware, will detect when a source IP address is scanning the external WAN interface for open ports, and block, drop, or log the source…
  • FILE-OFFICE Microsoft MSHTML ActiveX control bypass attempt. It started this morning.

    Keep on getting this notification email every 5 minutes from XGS2100 firewall. Affects only one user's computer. FILE-OFFICE Microsoft MSHTML ActiveX control bypass attempt. It started this morning. Please assist. These four IP's external are listed so…
  • Sophos XG too many Notification IPS and Malware over Mail

    Hello, i am reciving many Notifications like Message: BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer XSS filter bypass attempt Mostly i look up it has something to do with some kind of advertisement api from google or other cloud services…
  • Intrusion Prevention (IPS) high cpu usage - Snort

    Hello, in our company we got about 60-80 users. Each department got his own vlan running over one port. XGS2100 (SFOS 19.0.1 MR-1-Build365) Over the year i was setting up the sopho xg and adding all Firewall rules, like all department are in one…
  • No anti updates for nearly 24 hours

    Hi folks, I started investigating why the XG115W was showing high CPU load, normally around 5%, but now showing over 20% for extended peraiod. I checked the ATP, Avira, Sophos AV and Sophos anti spam, All but Anti spam last updated early yesterday…
  • How to write custom IPS signatures for blocking applications?

    Hi guys, How to write custom IPS signatures for blocking applications? I have found a few VPNs which are not on the application control list and I would like to block them. Regards
  • XG Custom IPS Signatures: Proper Syntax/Capabilities/Usage Question

    So, while setting up IPS on the system, I want to *block* the usual badness including scanners, etc. However, I have regular vulnerability scanning done by US DHS/CISA as part of their Cyber Hygeine program, and they scan regularly. As such, using scanner…
  • Exchange 0-Day CVE-2022–41040 and CVE-2022–41082, how to check if rules are including the mitigation?

    There is a critical 0-Day exploit for Exchange already being exploited, which is pretty much the same as the "ProxyShell" vulnerability in March. How can I check if the mitigation is already working with Snort or IPS rules? https://gteltsc.vn/blog…
  • Error Message-Couldn't Update the IPS Status

    So I have IPS protection turned on as shown below: I know that the pattern is updating as shown below: So I have 2 questions. 1. Shouldn't the 'Time of signature update' change dates when IPS and Application signatures are updated? Mine doesn…
  • Sophos Firewall: v19.0 MR1: IPS Update Question

    Hi, Not sure if this is a cosmetic issue, or something that needs further investigation - the IPS signatures are being reported in one part of the GUI as being old, but yet updated in another screen. Here it's showing Aug 26th But in this…
  • Connections time out when IPS enabled (sporadically)

    We have noticed that connections are sometimes interrupted for a period of 5 minutes. It is then not possible to establish new connections (external / internal) via Sophos. This happens 1-2 times per day and always at a different time. I went through…
  • IPS updates - old issues returning

    Hi folks, over the last week or so I have noticed previously fixed issues with applications being incorrectly classified returning in my daily reports. Manual proxy surfing and thunder VPN. Why are these previously resolved issues appearing, does…
  • sophos xg125 firewall snort using high percentage of memory

    i turned off ips but as the screenshot shows there are 3 snort services that each one uses 10% of memory so even inmy network there is just 30 users , the memory usage is higher than 70% what should we do to lower the usage of snort services?