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  • expanding XGS appliance portfolio / adding LTE extender as external box PoE powered to portfolio

    Hi, I am wondering if Sophos looking at their appliance portfolio of XGS firewalls and how they compete with their competitors. We entered in few competing bids where we learned that Sophos is worst positioned as branch office SDWAN firewall if you…
  • Scheduled SD-WAN routes?

    Hey all! I'm looking to schedule SD-WAN routes. For example, to send my traffic down one gateway during working hours but then move to another one for the evenings/weekend. It seems schedules are available elsewhere for rules, but not for SD-WAN. I guess…
  • Dual WAN on SD-RED 60

    Hi, we have a head office with an XGS 136 and a satellite office with an SD-RED 60 on Starlink. The Starlink isn't that great so I need to be able to add a 2nd WAN link. This link uses PPPoE to authenticate. How can I configure the 2nd WAN on the RED…
  • DHCP Pool Alert

    Does anybody have any clever ways to monitor dhcp pools. I have about 8 subnets/pools setup and it would be really helpful to know when a pool runs out of IP's. The log doesn't show that the pool is exhausted, it just doesn't respond to the client's discover…
  • 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..
  • Users must accept the terms of use / Maximum 1024 characters

    Hello, we need more space in the text field for our disclaimer in the guest wlan voucher. We need at least 10000 characters. Can you please pass this to programming or tell me how to enter more characters?
  • 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…
  • XG Firewall - How to create static IP addresses

    I'm in the proces of setting up a Sophos XG on an Intel platform and step by step overcoming the differences I encounter from other FW products I have used. I mainly have experience with Untangle and Ubiquiti products. The plan was to onboard all of…
  • IPv6 firewall rule country group

    Ive been asked to setup a firewall rule to allow 1 country access in. But the IP address that's showing is an IPv6 one. Ive been into the separate IPv6 tab in firewall rules to try and add the rule in but I cant select any country group as the source…
  • XGS No Manual Bounce for emails?

    Another UTM vs XGS comparison. Would be nice to be able to manually bounce an email back to my internal senders. Rather than wait for it timeout (72 hours). I usually find myself figuring out how the mis-addressed it, then contacting them and sending…
  • Update strategy not optimal

    Hello Sophos, Last week (01.22.22) Sophos issued a security advisory that included that to close the vulnerabilities should be updated to version SFOS 19.5 (our firewalls ran on SFOS 19.0.1). Since we always want to close security issues promptly, we…
  • Enhancement Request

    I haven't yet found an answer to this, so please forgive if one already exists. If not, perhaps this may serve as a potential enhancement request. IMO, one of the most basic and integral functions of any firewall should be to allow the termination of…
  • Sophos XG VPN IPSEC Monitoring

    Hello, Any way to monitor VPN Ipsec status ? API , SNMP ? this , should be a basic option... im not able to find anythings in sophos mib and the API... Did someone make it ? get vpn status like up or down ? :p Best Regards,
  • Possible to apply "warn" action to an FQDN host group?

    Is it possible in the web filtering to apply a "warn" action with an FQDN host group as the activity? The specific situation I am thinking of is there is a website we want to configure as "warn", but then if the user chooses to proceed, then we need to…
  • Feature Request - Quick Search Feature in Rules

    Hi, since the last update 19.5 there is a search window for the host and services. I would also like this search function for the rules, it would make it much easier to search for a specific rule! Thanks
  • XG 19.5 otp field

    Hi, Is it possible put an otp field in the weblogon pages (admin & users)? Kind regards Bart
  • XGS 19 and SPX encryption - Data Control List with custom expressions possible?

    Hi, we are migrating from UTM to XGS and as we use SPX Encryption in UTM with custom expressions I am looking for a solution to do the same in the XGS (Email in MTA-mode) but I can find only the pre-defined DataControl Lists and no option to use custom…
  • Sophos Firewall - Feature request - Rule Group parameters

    Since Ideas.sophos.com has been retired and it wasn't clear if its replacement is operational, yet I went by the retirement article suggesting using the discussions. Sophos Firewall - Feature Request - Rule Group parameters, While working on firewall…
  • Sophos SD-RED 20 and SD-RED 60

    Hi Sophos, Recently, during an implementation of SD-RED 60, I was faced with an impossibility to configure a VLAN connection on the SD-RED uplink interface. Here in Portugal, ISP's provide internet connections configured with VLAN. Here an example…
  • save username in Sophos Connect

    Hi, is there an option in the Sophos Connect client to save only the username so that the user only has to enter the password. best, Manuel
  • Sophos Scan & Clean And HitmanPro Feature Requests

    Hello, I have some feature requests for Sophos Scan & Clean that it is currently missing that HitmanPro has, and a few features that neither has. Please add a scan on startup option for Sophos Scan & Clean, like HitmanPro has. Please add…
  • Integration Between XGS Firewall With Billing System

    Dears, Have a Good Day Can I integrate with XGS Firewall with Billing System if system give Vocher code wireless to our guest
  • Intentionally Block USB Mouse and Keyboard

    I want to intentionally block a USB Mouse and Keyboard from being plugged in but I don't have the ability to yet. This needs to be a feature that is included in the Peripheral settings of Endpoint Protection
  • Feature Request

    I would like the ability to block USB Mouse and Keyboards using the Peripheral Settings in Endpoint Protection.
  • Unlimited device per voucher?

    Hello, we added some APX access points for customer guest wifi. We want to use one voucher for unlimited devices for e.g. 90 days. Its seems like this is not possible in Sophos Central Wireless... Maximum amount of device is 8 and time period is limit…