{"id":21168,"date":"2023-02-06T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/news-14900\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T23:21:00","slug":"news-14900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/news-14900\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 reasons to upgrade to Sophos Firewall v19.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:39:23 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content lg:prose-lg mx-auto prose max-w-4xl\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\">\n<p>Sophos Firewall v19.5 was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2022\/11\/17\/sophos-firewall-v19-5-is-now-available\/\">released in November<\/a> and has been our fastest-adopted release, with over 50,000 firewalls already having upgraded. It\u2019s also been our best quality release ever: it\u2019s packed with great features that boost performance, resiliency, and management ease.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already upgraded your Sophos Firewall to v19.5, here are the top five reasons you should upgrade today:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Added performance:<\/strong> Sophos Firewall OS v19.5 includes Xstream FastPath acceleration of TLS encrypted traffic and improvements in IPSec tunnel capacity and performance, leveraging the programmable Xstream Flow Processors in every XGS Series firewall appliance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robust SD-WAN:<\/strong> SFOS v19.5 includes a new SD-WAN load balancing capability that can use multiple SD-WAN links for added performance and redundancy, as well as OSPFv3 (IPv6) dynamic routing support.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High availability: <\/strong>Several enhancements improve managing high-availability deployments in active-active or active-passive setups, including new status and visibility improvements along with redundant link support.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Azure AD integration: <\/strong>Makes it easier for firewall admins in an Azure AD environment to log in and manage Sophos firewalls using the same credentials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Host and services search:<\/strong> This feature makes it easy to find the network object you\u2019re looking for and reduce the duplication of assets.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick overview of everything that\u2019s new in Sophos Firewall v19.5:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/768187447\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen style=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And, as usual, every Sophos Firewall release includes important security, performance, and reliability enhancements. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.sophos.com\/releasenotes\/index.html?productGroupID=nsg&amp;productID=xg&amp;versionID=19.5\">full release notes<\/a> for details. Also check the latest training materials available for <a href=\"https:\/\/3.id.sophos.com\/sso\/saml2\/NetExamCustomersSID3\/login?RelayState=%2Fsaml%2Fnetexam%2Fauthenticate.php%3Fdestination%3Dcs150263\">Sophos Customers<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.sophos.com\/prm\/English\/c\/sophos-firewall-os-v19-5\">Sophos Partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Upgrading couldn&#8217;t be easier<\/h2>\n<p>If you manage your firewalls in Sophos Central, simply click the download arrow for the firewall you want to upgrade and choose \u201cSchedule Upgrades\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89662 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schedule-Upgrades.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schedule-Upgrades.png 1430w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schedule-Upgrades.png?resize=300,156 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schedule-Upgrades.png?resize=768,400 768w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Schedule-Upgrades.png?resize=1024,533 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can also log in and upgrade the firewall locally. Upon logging in, you should see this pop-up appear \u2013 simply choose \u201cUpgrade now\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89663 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firmware.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firmware.png 880w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firmware.png?resize=300,211 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firmware.png?resize=768,540 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t see the above window when you log into your firewall, navigate to Backup &amp; Firmware &gt; Firmware and check for new firmware to download the latest release:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89664 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Manual-Firmware.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Manual-Firmware.png 1430w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Manual-Firmware.png?resize=300,64 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Manual-Firmware.png?resize=768,164 768w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Manual-Firmware.png?resize=1024,219 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Get started upgrading today!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2023\/02\/06\/top-5-reasons-to-upgrade-to-sophos-firewall-v19-5\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/sophos\/dgdY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sophos-firewall-11.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:39:23 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every Sophos Firewall release includes important security, performance, and reliability enhancements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10378,10377],"tags":[10384,24562,27689,24564],"class_list":["post-21168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-sophos","tag-network","tag-products-services","tag-sfos-v19-5","tag-ztna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}