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

  • Display the real IP in Web Application Firewall (WAF) when using Cloudflare

    Many of us are using Cloudflare or similar services to protected their Extranet / Webmail and other public websites using the Sophos WAF. It's possible to display the real IP addresses on any Linux servers behind the firewall by enabling Pass host header…
  • Citrix Netscaler 2FA Not Working with Sophos XG Web Server Protection

    As with our current Sophos XGS Firewall Rules and Policies configurations, the Citrix Netscaler 2FA authentication is working. We started planning of using the Sophos XG Firewall Web Server Protection. The license required were purchased and registered…
  • WAF rules to stop certain HTTP methods

    Hi everyone, I am trying to find out if I can use the WAF rules to stop certain HTTP methods for connections to one of our web servers. I would like to try to only allow GET and POST and deny any of the others such as "DEBUG", "CONNECT", "PUT", "UPDATE…
  • WAF for multiple ports

    Gday Needed to forward 25 ports to a webserver using WAF. I can't for the life of me work out how to enter in more than one port to either. Surely I don't need to create 25 webserver and 25 WAF rules? Anyone done this before?
  • IP allowlist for WAF

    Using Web Server Protection, I want a web server to only be reachable from some IP lists or IP host groups. How can I achieve this? In Access permission , Allowed client networks , it seems that I can only choose individual IP hosts of networks. Am…
  • Make specific URL with parameters available to the public and simplify it

    Hi there, we have an internal URL (like server1/.../access.php This link is designed to be accessed directly from the Internet and we would like to make it available to the public. But as this link is quite complicated and as it might reveal details…
  • Sophos SFOS WAF Rules limit

    Hello, We use the Web Server Protection of Sophos XG Firewall and have now reached almost 60 WAF rules. This is also the maximum number of WAF rules. Is it possible to combine several URLs in one WAF rule and route them to different servers? WAF rule…
  • WAF & large files – how do you deal with it?

    Hi all, When AV or other protection features are enabled, we keep running into various problems while uploading large files. Sometimes the disk space (Temp=100%) seems to be the cause, sometimes other internal buffers. We have the requirement to allow…
  • Using WAF to redirect a webserver root to a specific path?

    Hi all, I use a XGS 2300 with actual path level. We migrated fresh from UTM. In UTM we redirected in WAF to have mail.server.com redirected to mail.server.com/owa (Exchange Outlook Web Access). I only find old articles describing, that this is…
  • IP group and WAF exception

    Hello Is it possible to use a group of IP addresses in a WAF rule exception? Adding many IP hosts one by one is very cumbersome.
  • WAF Restrict traffic from WAN

    Hello There. Are there any information when SOPHOS will improve WAF option on its iwn devices? Why we dont have such basic option to limit source traffic from WAN only for specific country? So far we can only do IPs..
  • Is it possible to make custom WAF Configurations on Sophos XG ?

    Hello everyone, Is it possible to create custom WAF configurations without It being overwritten every time you edit or create a new WAF Policy ? I need to add both "AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode", and "nocanon" at a certain WAF Policy. Thanks!