Sophos XG Firewall for Beginners-Part 2/2

Sophos Firewall provides comprehensive next-generation firewall protection that exposes hidden risks, blocks unknown threats, and automatically responds to incidents. The all-new Xstream Architecture delivering extreme new levels of visibility, protection and performance.

XG Firewall v18 Highlights:

• Xstream SSL Inspection. Get unprecedented visibility into your encrypted traffic flows, support for TLS 1.3 without downgrading, powerful policy tools, and extreme performance.

• AI-powered Threat Intelligence. Extend your protection against zero-day threats and emerging ransomware variants with multiple best-in-class machine learning models and unmatched insights into suspicious files entering your network

• Application Acceleration. Optimize network performance by putting your important application traffic on the fast path through the firewall and routing it reliably out your preferred WAN connection

• Synchronized SD-WAN brings the power of Synchronized Security to reliably and accurately route application and user-based traffic over your preferred WAN links.

• Firewall, NAT, and SSL Inspection rules and policies are now more powerful, flexible and easier to work with than ever before.

• Plug-and-play high-availability (HA) makes it easy to enable business continuity and adds peace-of-mind – simply connect two XG Series appliances together and you’ll be up and running in no time.

• Real-time flow monitoring provides at-a-glance insights into active bandwidth consuming hosts, applications, and users

• Expanded notifications and alerts ensure you never miss an important network security event whether it’s related to a threat, service, or important performance metric.

In this courses, feature lecture and hands-on labs, you will learn to install, configure, manage and Sophos Firewall v18 & Advanced Use cases. You will gaining the skills and expertise needed to protect your organization from security threats. The student will get hands-on experience of Sophos Firewall v18 in a lab environment.

This course dives deeper into Sophos Firewall Advanced Configuration to give the students a clear understanding on several topics. Topics covered include Sophos Firewall Models & Licensing, Sophos Firewall v18 Basic Configuration, Network Zones & Interface Configuration, Firewall Polices, Web Control & Application Control, WAN Load Balancing, SSL TLS Configuration VLAN Configuration, Sophos Firewall as single arm proxy, Synchronized Security, Sophos RED Configuration, SNAT & DNAT, Sophos firewall in Azure more.