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

  • Sophos XG210 blocking third-party published applications.

    Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm fairly new to the Sophos firewall world and some things aren't as clear as other vendors. I have a third-party that is publishing a Sage ERP software package for my client. We can authenticate the published…
  • WebFiltering for Incoming WAN traffic

    Is it supported to setup webfiltering for incoming WAN traffic originated in the Internet WAN ZONE?
  • load balancing XG webproxy

    Hi, We're migrating from UTM's over to XG's. The UTM were able to host a wpad.dat file, and we load balance the address via an F5. The wpad contains ${asg_hostname) , this is then populated by the relevant UTM when the file is downloaded by the client…
  • Rule for Discord App

    Hi, I'm trying to set up a rule for Discord traffic but cannot get it working tried to find out from LogViewer what I need to add to the rule but informations I found there are rather confusing - the same traffic (dst addr & port) is once denied and…
  • sophostest.com treated differently http vs https

    If I do a policy test for https://sophostest.com/adult/index.html the Web Protection Category is marked as "Information Technology" If I do a policy test for http://sophostest.com/adult/index.html the Web Protection Category is marked as " Sexually…
  • XG web filtering no porn category?

    Hi, I'm new to XG and am setting up web content filtering. I may be missing something, but I'm trying to set up an "Activities" group adding my own selection of Categories, and I don't see "porn" as a category. I do see "Sexually Explicit", but the…
  • External URL database -Web policy

    Hi Everyone I want to use create a custom Category pointing to an external URL database. The category seems to work fine is the numbers of records is relative small (I've tried <200). Does anyone know what the max record limit for external URL database…
  • Web Categories - bug or feature?

    Today i was trying to edit a custom Web categorie. This Categorie consists of both URL's as well as keywords. My purpose was tot delet the last keyword in the categorie. This does not seem to be possible. When i delete the last enkeyword entry and click…
  • XG Proxy

    Despite this looking like incredibly simple config, I'm unable to get the proxy functionality of the XG working. Is there a trick to it? I can see traffic hitting the XG, being passed along to my ASA, and the ASA returning the traffic. but clients…
  • Sophos XG blocking Apple OS Software & Updates

    SFVH (SFOS 18.5.1 MR-1-Build326) I found an old post that listed things to add to the web content exceptions. I noticed the third one in their list was missing from the exception that was apparently included in the appliance defaults, so I cloned…
  • Internet Reinstall MacOS Fails when going through firewall

    In my home LAN I have an XG-125w with SFOS 18.5. My MacBook Pro had a corrupted disk so I had to erase it and do an internet reinstall of MacOS. This procedure downloads a new copy of the operating system and then installs it. To get started, I made a…
  • Exclusion for windows update and Windows Defender

    Hi. I have a rule for cut the acces on the internet for some pc's, but I need to configure my sophos to upgrade operating system and Windosw defender. I tried whith this list, but doesn't work, any idea or sugestion, please? ^.*windowsupdate\.microsoft…
  • Geo Blocking Exclusion

    I want to exclude one public ip in Geo Blocking rule. Can anybody help me.
  • Web proxy and TLS 1.3

    Hi, is there plan to support TLS 1.3 in Web proxy (port 3128 configured in browser)? Now running 18.5 MR1 and when the web server supports only TLS 1.3 then the connection fails over web proxy. Thanks for info.
  • XG Web filtering policy not working

    I've created a vlan for guest and have assigned to a network rage to vlan, guest must sign in via captive portal using the password of the day. I've also created a web filter policy called guest, I created a firewall rule and assigned the guest policy…
  • Sophos Firewall Web Protection Unable To Process Cyrillic Domain Names

    Hello Everyone, We've had requests to block websites that contain Cyrillic characters, however whenever I attempt to do so in the Sophos interface it states it's an invalid URL. To avoid posting the full domain of the malicious site, an excerpt…
  • Allow only microsoft team

    Hi.. i have plan to block all the applications and web traffic except Microsoft Teams for a group of machines. could you help me? thank you in advance.
  • Sophos XG Firewall & Google Nest updates

    I'm new to Sophos. I'm running an XG unit at home for testing so have a few devices you wouldn't normally see in a business environment. I have two new Google Nest Hubs I'm trying to add to my network, the setup process involves them performing an update…
  • How to use Policy Override Feature

    Hello, I have been reading a bit about My policy overrides - Sophos (XG) Firewall and even though I understand the purpose, I am confused on how to use it. Based on the description: Policy overrides allow you to temporarily unblock websites…
  • Microsoft Teams Application exception in Firewall Rule

    I have a few PCs I want to lock down from accessing anything but a few URLs and applications. I have created a firewall rule that blocks traffic and provided exceptions for the URLs I want access to, but when I try to launch the Microsoft Teams app on…
  • Web Proxy

    Hello, everyone, I have a terminal server in my network. The server goes to the internet through Sophos. Web proxy is switched on via Sophos. If a user who has internet logs on to the server, the internet works fine, but as soon as another user who…
  • SFOS 18.5.1 MR-1-Build326 MS Quick Assist Web Exceptions

    After implementing SFOS 18.5.1 I discovered Microsoft QUick Assist would not complete a connection, it just showed a rotating dots image. SFOS Log Viewer showed the Firewall blocked the application with Invalid Traffic. Sharing the Web Exceptions for…
  • To whitelist by URL, or not, That is the question

    Is there a recommend practice here to whitelist ? In the same way as you would add Hosts/subnets to make it easy to add/update, which would apply to any changes made in Firewall/SSLVPN etc.... does it make sense to create "exceptions" to websites, rather…
  • Help with Regex for Web Exceptions

    Hi, I'm trying to create a regex for 3-213-29-168.836921650872.us-east-1.prod.rms.ring.devices.a2z.com where everything to the left of .ring.devices.a2z.com is wildcarded. The url the Ring app is trying to get to is random up to the .prod.ms.ring…
  • Sophos XG 135

    Hi all experts, Need some advice on Sophos XG 135 web filtering tips. Please kindly bear with me, as i am very green in handling Sophos products. For the Web filtering, is there anyone that can guide me or point me in the direction, whereby i will…