Hello. I am starting to get acquainted with Sophos Firewall sf01v (sfos 21.0.0 ga-build169). I have configured blocking of sites (for testing I have prohibited access to facebook.com). Tell me how to configure an exception for access to facebook for certain…

Hey there, How much of an impact to the internet speed does it make, if I create a new firewall exception? Since the firewall has to go through the entire ruleset, it should slow down every request a little bit. Is there an upper bound of…

I have enabled SSL/TLS inspection to do MITM for HTTPS(443) trafic from LAN to WAN. I have push by GPO certificat CA to windows computer. That work just fine for most site. Now I have an issue with site that have HSTS enabled. For those site that enable…

Hello everyone, I'm trying to understand what the best or correct whitelisting method is. Scenario: I need to whitelist URLs for a new application. Method 1: Firewall Rule 1) Create FQDN Host: *.example.com 2) Create Firewall rule Source…

Guten Morgen, seit einigen Tagen ist der Login bei eBay mit der folgenden Fehlermeldung deaktiviert: Stop! This Download is blocked. Wenn ich ebay.de auf die Liste der Ausnahmen für die SSL/TLS Inspection setze kann ich mich wieder normal einloggen…

Hallo community, I've now migrated a bunch of firewalls from SG to XGS. Usually, I didn't encounter to many problems, but now I might need your help. We have a firewall with a lot of webfilter exceptions (like 1000+ URLs). Is there a better possibility…

Hello community, while migrating a Sophos SG to Sophos XGS, I was wondering wheter it is possible to add the defined web exceptions to a web filter policy? So that the exceptions only count for firewall rules with the appropriate web filter policy…

Hi there, is it possible to create an exception for a filetype that should be allowed on a specific website only? We have a webpolicy, that restricts filetypes based on file type category. We want to allow one of that types for a certain website.…

Hallo, ich habe mit einer Sophos XGS 2100 im HA ein Problem mit der SSL / TLS Encryption. Wir benutzen das Programm SFIRM, welches Probleme mit der Encryption hat. Ich habe dementsprechend Kontakt mit dem Sparkassen-Support aufgenommen und die…

The thread was closed but I wanted to share my solution. Here is the original thread. https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/discussions/141624/can-t-get-eso-updater-to-work-as-exception-any-ideas Here was my solution. I created…

Hello, on my old UTM i got an exception which gave web access to unauthenticated users to several domains like microsoft.com or windowsupdate.com. How is that possible on xgs? The Webfilter does not contain an exception for authentication.

Why is this list unsorted? I suggest an alphabetical order. A list field implies being sorted in a way that you can easily find entries in that list or add missing ones.

We've recently installed WatchGuard EPDR and it's failing to download updates. Their support guys have provided a list of URLs that need to be accessible and I've had a go at allowing access through the XG Firewall but they're still inaccessible so I…

Hello All, I recently got a new Sophos XP - previously I was working with Sophos UTM. Now I wanted to make a web filter exception. With the Sophos UTM no problem, but with the XG I'm stuck :-) Adopted it 1:1. I entered the filter under Web - Exception…

On my old PC I had this issue where I couldn't download anything from the Microsoft store or the Xbox app. I bypassed the firewall and everything started working, so I knew the firewall was blocking it. I messed around with the firewall and ended up making…

Hello, We implemented the Office 365 exceptions by following this guide: https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000038173?language=en_US For example, one of those entries looks like this: However, it seems not working because our users…

Hi All Currently I am experiencing issues building a Discord firewall exception. When users are joining a voice/video channel within Discord, channel status is: No Route, connecting RTC. WHen I create a firewall exception, things are just not working…

If you have a "strict" Web Filter policy, chances are your update download after the Synology DSM 7.x Update will be blocked. Either create a web filter exception or remove the categories from your web filter policy. Example Exception: Matching…

HI on old sophos utm9 in web protection - filtering options -exception list under target domain I could enter the string ^https?://([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?adobe\.com/ on the new xg firewall under web categories/ domain/keyword this string ^https?://([A…

Just imported the Office 365 templates (All services) as per method 2 below and the process to manually turn each one on is. Sophos Firewall: Configure web exceptions for Office 365 .

So I have an application *cough* game *cough* that still utilizes pipelining. I know that it is not supported in XG based off a two year old thread that's locked, but it was noted that you can create exceptions without having to resort to changing from…

hello i need to open microsoft website (for office 2021 activation and such) for every user i have i used the web exception to allow them but noticed that if a user is not present in any firewall rule , the exception don't apply is this normal…

When setting up a new firewall, we import O365 exceptions into the configuration. Is it possible to import all of the Office 365 exceptions into a firewall template? This is the documentation we normally follow to import the exceptions. Sophos Firewall…

I have an application, Parallels Access, that as part of its login process connects to different Parallels websites. I am getting the error "Blocked due to using client certificate" that then fails the connection, and I can't log in to the Parallels server…

Can anyone point me to XG/XGS configurations or exceptions designed to improve Google Docs performance?