Sophos UTM 9.6 Sophos Mobile Control

August 29, 2019 Marcel Zimmer
Sophos

This section provides information on different variants available for XG Firewall.

Sophos XG is available in the following variants:

Physical appliances
Virtual appliances
Software

Physical appliances

Sophos offers a range of physical appliances to suit the needs of all businesses, from small businesses to home users to large enterprises.

Virtual appliances

Virtual Network Security appliances can be deployed as next-generation firewalls or UTMs, providing industry-leading network security for virtual data centres, security-in-a-box setup for MSSPs/enterprises and office-in-a-box setup. By providing comprehensive security capabilities in its hardware security appliances (in virtualised form), these virtual appliances enable identity-based Layer -8 security on a single virtual appliance that is as high as physical networks.

Sophos offers businesses a comprehensive virtual security solution with its virtual appliances for network security (next-generation firewalls/UTMs), its virtual Sophos Firewall Manager (SFM) for centralised management and Sophos iView software for centralised logging and reporting.

Author: Marcel Zimmer

Marcel Zimmer is the Technical Managing Director of EnBITCon. During his time in the German Armed Forces, the trained IT developer was able to gain numerous project experiences. His interest in IT security was significantly awakened by his service in command support. Even after his service, he is an active reservist in the Bundeswehr.

His first firewall was a Sophos UTM 120, which he had to set up for a customer project. Since then, his interest in IT security has grown steadily. In the course of time, various security and infrastructure topics have come into his focus. His most interesting projects included, for example, WLAN coverage in an explosion-proof area, as well as a multi-site WLAN solution for a large