How to config

• Prepare a USB Boot with 8 GB capacity
• Access website sophos.com/mysophos
• Log on with Sophos account
• Choose Network Protection

The Essential Firewall Edition is a free version of the Sophos UTM software and offers fundamental security functions to help protect any business network. Start today and implement a firewall into your company’s IT environment—without charge and no strings attached. NOTE: The Sophos XG Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner! Sophos UTM (formerly Astaro Security Gateway) offers an integrated software solution that provides superior performance in an all-in-one firewall. Its hardened operating system, stateful packet inspection, content filtering (virus & surf protection), application proxies and IPsec based VPN provides a powerful solution to today's security issues. This knowledge base article provides information on the retirement of network security hardware products (Sophos SG UTM, XG Firewall, Wireless, RED) and software support. The following sections are covered.

• Choose Download Installers

• In Hardware Installers -> Firewall OS for XG Series -> Choose Download

• Tick in I accept the Sophos End User License Agreement and acknowledge the Sophos Privacy Policy -> Click Submit

• Download and install rufus to create USB Boot

• Plug in USB and select Device -> Click Select to get the downloaded OS file from the previous -> Click Start

• Choose Write in DD Image mode -> Click OK -> Click OK

• After you have completed creating USB Boot, plug in the USB port on the Sophos XG device and reboot the XG -> Wait about 10 – 15 minutes, the OS installation process is completely automatic
• After you have finished installing the OS, unplug the USB and reboot again -> Complete the installation of a new OS for the Sophos XG device

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Flexibility and performance enhancements

Xg Firewalls

• Version 18.0 delivered a data plane with a Virtual FastPath (VFP) to allow the offloading of trusted and previously security-verified traffic, using the same x86 CPU for the offloaded traffic. On the XGS Series, after inspecting the initial packets in a flow, the x86 CPU offloads trusted traffic to the Xstream FastPath, which runs on the Xstream Flow Processor and is specifically designed for FastPath operations.
• The Xstream Flow Processor delivers and retrieves packets directly to and from the DPI engine's main memory. These enhancements deliver a significant increase in the overall network performance with a 5x improvement in latency with the zero-copy operation and up to a 5x increase in SSL/TLS decryption performance versus the previous hardware models.
• The Xstream architecture saves cycles of the x86 clock by lowering memory bandwidth usage and allowing both processors to update the cache.
• Port density and diversity: XGS Series appliances offer an increased number of fixed ports and include some new port connectivity, such as Power over Ethernet (PoE), which is now built-in on some desktop models. They also offer a broad range of Flexi Port modules and add-on options to adapt and extend connectivity.