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Sophos UTM Retirement / EOL announced

seroal

Finally, Sophos announced the EOL of UTM. Interestingly, the EOL does not apply to Sophos UTM AWS....



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    Well I finally transitioned to the XG. Got it all configured and working just right. UTM was nice but nothing lasts forever. Goodbye, UTM

    Some things I will miss from the UTM:

    Seeing right from the dashboard what modules are active/inactive without having to inspect the firewall rules.

    Portscan detection with email alerts, (even though it is useless).

    How simple it is to convert DHCP leases into static hosts definitions.

    How much faster it boots compared to the XG.

    The ability to drag-and-drop service and network definitions into firewall and NAT rules

    Realtime logs for every component. XG is supposed to have them but you still have to hit the refresh button.

    Easy click and enable IPS rules.

  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    Alan, I wish you luck.  I'm sticking with UTM for now.  Three years is a long time away. Maybe XG will improve to the point of consideration by then.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    Look at the roadmap of XG, it seems to be planned out with business/corporate features in mind, with no new features planned that home users can even take advantage of. Therefore the XG could be considered like a final product already that is good enough for a home environment and has enough feature parity to the UTM that it has no real issues besides the learning curve.

    The only real thing I am concerned about is the EOL of the access points in December that will need to be managed through the Sophos Central Wireless when using the XG, which I cannot get my AP15 to synchronize with. If worse comes to worse I will still have my copy of UTM that I can use just in case that will still be able to manage the APs.

    I just wish Sophos would include UEFI bios support and a newer kernel in the next version of XG but who knows.....

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  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    Look at the roadmap of XG, it seems to be planned out with business/corporate features in mind, with no new features planned that home users can even take advantage of. Therefore the XG could be considered like a final product already that is good enough for a home environment and has enough feature parity to the UTM that it has no real issues besides the learning curve.

    The only real thing I am concerned about is the EOL of the access points in December that will need to be managed through the Sophos Central Wireless when using the XG, which I cannot get my AP15 to synchronize with. If worse comes to worse I will still have my copy of UTM that I can use just in case that will still be able to manage the APs.

    I just wish Sophos would include UEFI bios support and a newer kernel in the next version of XG but who knows.....

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