Dear all, I have Installed the Sophos SFOS 21 on a VM on Hyper V, and I am facing Issues with the WAF. I have a internal WebServer where you can gain access over Port 8080, I want to know if it is possible to access the WEB-Server over Public…

Hi i want to ask the configuration of (WAF) regarding customer request to enable an additional port, specifically port 11883.HTTPS is currently enabled and functioning without issues. To accommodate the client’s request for port 11883, I have created…

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…

Hi, we have added a web server behind the WAF in DMZ zone. LAN/WAN- we can access the web server through a public IP address. we have a backup server in the LAN zone. How to do backup Lan to Dmz zone using public IP or private IP of server…

Hi anyone can help me,currently i have implement WAF to my mailserver that have activesync,for now the waf rules listener port are 443 but how to allow any services like smtp/smtps/imap/ or pop3.im facing issue with slow login and cannot sent email out…

Hi Community Members, I hope this message finds you well. I am currently exploring the best practices for protecting web servers, particularly in scenarios where the firewall is not acting as the gateway, The XGS also acting a reversed Proxy.. Your…

Hi All, Sorry if this has been asked previously, I have combed through the forums and could not find a solution or direct discussion to this specific issue I am facing. We have signed up for the Sophos XG Firewall via the Azure marketplace image. I am…

When I go to edit the certificate and upload the certificate which is due for renewal ( every 13 months ), it fails with the following error at the top center of the screen: Certificate could not be updated as it is already used by HTTP Based Policy…

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…

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…

Hello, need help for configurate Sophos XGS to protect Exchange OWA from brute force. S erver is behind DNAT

Hi, I have set up a new Web server protection rule following this guide. Everything works fine using port 80, but when I change the port to 1001, I get 503 Service Unavailable: Web server : IIS (Windows 11). Binding: Type: HTTP, IP address: all…

WAF rule not working for a website that hosted on internal IP in windows server 2012

With reference to below doc https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/20.0/help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/AdministratorHelp/WebServer/AuthenticationTemplates/index.html Is there any variable available to get client ip address? Example "client_ip…

Hello, we have also this problem and cannot send larger emails from mobile phones throuth our XG135 firewall. (ActiveSync) What are the steps to fix this problem? (1MB Limit) Thank you

Hello Sophos Community, We are migrating from a UTM 9 unit to a new Sophos Firewall unit and I've setup a WAF rule for two internal web servers. When setting up the firewall rule, I chose the Action dropdown option of "Protect with web server protection…

Hi all, I'm looking for a bit of hand holding and guidance here. What I am trying to do is allow access to internal containers hosting multiple websites and applications. I have a fresh Sophos Setup with no special custom rules or anything yet. I have…

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?

Hello, I am getting some unexpected and unwanted requests (trying to find exploits) that are handled by one of the WAF Rules: Here's the WAF Rule that is being it with this traffic: Here's how it looks in the Event Viewer: How can I change the…

Hello, We have the problem that users who work from home and only have an IPV6 address cannot use the WAF rules and web server access. Can we allow "any IPV6"? "any IPV4" is allowed. What would be the best approach here? Thank You!

Hi, I need advice how to Deny Direct IP access from browser. So, it only allow access by domain-name. How it done through Sophos Firewall configuration rule? I use Sophos XG 310, SFOS v20.0 Thanks

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…

I'm struggling to block access to the WAF, I am trying to block all but Cloudflare IP ranges from accessing the WAF however there is still traffic hitting the WAF from non cloudflare IP's. If you are a non cloudflare IP then you get a forbidden page instead…

We just had a PCI compliance scan and we failed because HTST wasn't enabled. Looking through everything HTST is enabled on all of our Web Server Protection rules including the default one. The PCI scanning company said the server replying is using apache…

I'm getting an error on a URL with WAF for Static URL Hardening. I've added an exception but still getting the same error. What am I missing?