Addressing schools’ unique IT challenges
Sophos Firewall includes features tailored to the IT needs of higher education, K-12, and primary and secondary institutions.
Comprehensive web filtering policies
Use built-in policies for Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) compliance and other education-specific features for Google SafeSearch and YouTube control
Child safety and compliance
Get compliant immediately with our built-in policy settings and important features to monitor activity online
Context-aware keyword filtering
Identify problematic behavior such as bullying before it becomes a real issue
Insights into top-risk users
Recognize users with risky online behavior so you can take appropriate action
Chromebook support
Add Chromebook users to your extensive Sophos authentication options for full user-based policy and reporting on every platform
Top-rated protection from threats
Make sure you’re not unnecessarily wasting time cleaning up malware outbreaks or recovering from ransomware
Powerful visibility and online compliance tools
Sophos Firewall removes visibility gaps, delivering views and insight into all network activity, whether encrypted, evasive, or elusive.
Flexible web filtering
Sophos Firewall provides an intuitive web policy model that you typically only find in dedicated enterprise web filtering products that cost much more. It makes managing multiple user- and group-based custom policies a breeze. Sophos Firewall correlates each user’s surfing habits and activity with advanced threat triggers and history to identify undesirable online behavior.
Child safety and compliance
Sophos Firewall provides built-in features and policy settings that help organizations become compliant with local regulations quickly and easily. Sophos Firewall includes built-in policies for CIPA and predefined activities, such as “not suitable for schools,” as well as features like SafeSearch, YouTube restrictions, and keyword filtering to enable child safety online.
Pinpoint behavior problems early
With Sophos Firewall you can identify potentially problematic behavior right away. Sophos Firewall can log, monitor, and even enforce keyword-based policies related to bullying, radicalization, or self-harm, for example. You can schedule reports to identify users at risk and get details about their activities, including what and where they’re posting or what sites they’re visiting.
Eliminate an enormous blind spot: encryption
TLS inspection that just works. Fast.
Sophos Firewall’s Xstream TLS inspection once and for all solves the problem of encrypted traffic passing through firewalls unchecked. Now you can fully enable TLS inspection without compromising performance, protection, privacy, or user experience.
Identify top-risk users
Take advantage of unique features you can't get anywhere else
Sophos Firewall helps you identify your riskiest users based on recent web activity and threat and infection history. A user’s risk score can be an indication of unintentional actions due to a lack of security awareness or the sign of a rogue or negligent user.
You get the most extensive set of user authentication options available on any firewall, including Microsoft Active Directory integration, Chromebook support, and our unique and easy-to-use synchronized user ID feature that makes user identity completely transparent and trouble-free.
Detect and block rogue applications and tunneling
Synchronized and integrated security between Sophos Firewall and Sophos Endpoint/Intercept X finds all unknown, evasive, and custom applications running on your network so you can easily identify rogue applications like Psiphon and block them.
How It works
- Synchronized application control is activated whenever there is unidentified app traffic on the network
- Sophos Endpoint shares the application path and executable with Sophos Firewall over Sophos Security Heartbeat™
- Sophos Firewall can automatically classify the new app and you can change its category at any time
- The new application can now be controlled by policy to block, throttle, or prioritize it.
Put your IT security on autopilot
Sophos Firewall is part of the world’s best cybersecurity system, integrating in real time with the rest of your Sophos security infrastructure to fully protect endpoints, mobile devices, switches, wireless access points, and much more.
Monitor health and threats
Sophos Firewall and Sophos Endpoint/Intercept X work together to continuously share health information over Sophos Security Heartbeat™ so you know the health of your network at a glance and are instantly notified of any active threats.
Active threat response
When Sophos Firewall, Sophos Endpoint, or an analyst identifies an active adversary or threat, your firewall coordinates an automatic response. It uses dynamic firewall rules and lateral movement protection to isolate a compromised host and keep malware and other types of threats from spreading further, helping prevent hacker communication or data loss.
100% application and user visibility
Sophos Endpoint constantly shares networked application and user identity information with Sophos Firewall so you can identify and control your important business apps, route them using SD-WAN, and block unwanted apps, all while ensuring all your user-based policies are enforced.
One console to manage it all
Sophos Central enables you to manage all your IT security protection through a single cloud-based platform. The Sophos Central dashboard consolidates all alerts, enabling you to focus on what’s important. It also makes central management of all your firewalls and other Sophos products a snap.
Sophos Central is accessible from anywhere, on any device, at any time, and you don't need to deploy or pay anything extra. It doesn't get any easier.
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