Sophos XG Firewall is the only network security solution that is able to fully identify the user and source of an infection on your network and automatically limit access to other network resources in response. Sophos Firewall is also available on all popular virtualization platforms, including VMWare ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 and 2012, KVM, and Citrix Xen App platforms. You can also install Sophos Firewall as a software appliance on your own x86 hardware. Firewall Customer Resource Center. With your Sophos ID. You can adjust the network settings of the device’s interfaces by clicking “Basic Setup” so that the device can connect to the Internet. After clicking “Register Device”, you are redirected to the Sophos.com. If you already have a Sophos ID, enter your login credentials under “Sign in with your Sophos. Sophos XG 86 & XG 86W Firewalls Sophos XG Firewall brings a fresh new approach to the way you manage your firewall, respond to threats, and monitor what’s happening on your network. Sophos has released the longly awaited MR-3 with many good fixes in the package, read all here: RELEASE NOTES from Sophos: Enhancements in v18 MR-3. Security enhancements: Several security and hardening enhancements – including SSMK (secure storage master key) for the encryption of sensitive data. Refer KB-000040174 for more details.

Selling the two smallest XG models, the XG 85(w) and 105(w), will be stopped in the middle of the year. With the XG 86(w) and the XG 106(w), Sophos is already introducing the successors, which can be pre-ordered from us today.

Which models are affected?

Before we get to the innovations, let’s take a quick look at what models we’re talking about here:

• New: XG 86 Rev. 1 - Previously: XG 85 Rev. 3
• New: XG 86w Rev. 1 - Previously: XG 85 Rev. 3
• New: XG 106 Rev. 1 - Previously: XG 105 Rev. 3
• New: XG 106w Rev. 1 - Previously: XG 105w Rev. 3

XG 86

The XG 85 was almost unusable up to now. We could only approve the use of this hardware for a maximum of 3 users. But even then we would always have personally recommended the XG 105. From our point of view, the hardware of the XG 85 is simply too weak in terms of performance. If you take a quick look at the Sophos forums, you will see that this is not just our opinion.

Sophos has now probably noticed for itself that a hardware update is urgently needed and is reacting with the XG 86 and XG 86w as successors. Optically, everything remains the same, but in terms of performance, the new firewalls now have twice as much memory and storage:

• Memory: Instead of 2 GB memory now 4 GB are installed.
• eMMC storage: Instead of 8 GB of storage, 16 GB are now available.

XG 106

The XG 105 wasn’t exactly a performance monster either, but it was quite usable as an entry-level model. The design of the XG 106 has not been changed either. However, it gets a memory update:

• Memory: Instead of 2 GB memory now 4 GB are installed.

Availability and Prices

According to Sophos, the new hardware will be available from 9 April 2019. However, experience has shown that it may take some time before these devices are shipped by Sophos and arrive at the warehouse. We don’t expect it until mid-May at the earliest. However, you can still pre-order the new firewalls on our website. We will ship the new hardware models as soon as we receive them!

Since we can now also send all products in our shop to customers in Germany, the pre-order of course applies to Swiss, Liechtensteiner, as well as Germans! Please also read our blogpost for more information: Avanet Shop: Welcome Germany! 🇩🇪

The new hardware is delivered with firmware version 17.5 MR3 and has become a bit more expensive compared to the predecessor models. Sophos mentions the double storage and the increased memory as the reason.

End of sale of XG 85(w) and XG 105(w)

The new models replace the current XG 85(w) and 105(w) appliances. The end of sale date is August 17th, 2019. Depending on how the remaining stock is, perhaps earlier.

SG with UTM

Just as there was no counterpart for the SG series for the XG 85, there will also be no SG 86 or SG 106 firewalls. Evil tongues wouldn’t miss the opportunity to emphasize the strategic death of the SG series and the UTM operating system once again. 🤭

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