{"id":25284,"date":"2024-10-02T07:20:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/news-19014\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:20:57","slug":"news-19014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/news-19014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Firewall v21: Streamlined management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:35:44 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content lg:prose-lg mx-auto prose max-w-4xl\">\n<p>Sophos Firewall v21 brings several quality-of-life enhancements to streamline day-to-day management and improve the overall user experience.<\/p>\n<h2>User interface enhancements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Significantly enhanced responsiveness<\/li>\n<li>Refreshed look and feel, integrating the latest Sophos style guidelines for consistency with Sophos Central and your other Sophos products<\/li>\n<li>Improved horizontal layout to better take advantage of widescreen displays<\/li>\n<li>New card views to further enhance visibility into important network events and data with the same flip and drill-down capabilities as before<\/li>\n<li>An all-new Active Threat Response card consolidates threat information from MDR, Sophos X-Ops, and third-party threat feeds into a single, easy-to-view section<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_957616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-957616\" style=\"width: 936px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Control-Center.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-957616 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Control-Center.png\" alt=\"Control Center\" width=\"936\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Control-Center.png 936w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Control-Center.png?resize=300,155 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Control-Center.png?resize=768,397 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-957616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The refreshed Control Center includes a new card for Active Threat Response.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Network object references<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New visibility into network object usage is now provided for interfaces, zones, gateways, and SD-WAN profiles. Simply click the new \u201cusage\u201d indicator on any of these screens for a quick view of the associated network objects. You can then drill down to view or edit the object details and settings in place.<\/li>\n<li>A new XML API is also provided to retrieve object reference (usage) counts, offering visibility into unused objects. See the video below for details and a demo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_957617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-957617\" style=\"width: 1430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Network-Objects.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-957617 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Network-Objects.png\" alt=\"Network Objects\" width=\"1430\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Network-Objects.png 1430w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Network-Objects.png?resize=300,145 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Network-Objects.png?resize=768,370 768w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Network-Objects.png?resize=1024,493 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-957617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See which network objects are associated with interfaces, zones, gateways, and SD-WAN profiles with drill-down in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watch this short demo video to see the new quality of life enhancements in action:<a href=\"https:\/\/techvids.sophos.com\/watch\/aFSEqKEsMfH24tfaPfMWoN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-957619 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/QoL-video.png\" alt=\"QoL video\" width=\"1208\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/QoL-video.png 1208w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/QoL-video.png?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/QoL-video.png?resize=768,433 768w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/QoL-video.png?resize=1024,577 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Start taking advantage of this great new capability in Sophos Firewall v21 by participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.sophos.com\/events\/9496899a-0e84-4fa3-9d8a-07f23841dc1c\">early access program<\/a>. Simply register for the program, click the link in your email to download the firmware update package, and install it on your Sophos Firewall.<\/p>\n<p>Get the <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.sophos.com\/X24WTUEQ\/at\/7t8k46h9ttmxt6pn8g58k7wb\/sophos-firewall-key-new-features-v21.pdf\">What\u2019s New Guide<\/a> for a complete overview of all the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2024\/10\/02\/sophos-firewall-v21-streamlined-management\/\" 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\/2024\/09\/FWv21.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:35:44 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.<\/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":[12235,10384,24562,31877],"class_list":["post-25284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-sophos","tag-firewall","tag-network","tag-products-services","tag-v21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}