Product Lifecycle Update – February 2022

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Find out what’s new, what’s coming, and what’s going in our latest product life cycle report.

Feb 15 2022 By

Coming Soon

Sophos Firewall OS v19 Early Access Program 2
This latest v19 build includes Xstream FastPath Acceleration of IPsec VPN traffic. This new enhancement adds to the Xstream SD-WAN capabilities by providing a huge performance boost! Join the Early Access Program

Intercept X: Enhanced Performance and Protection Updates
Intercept X and Intercept X for Server customers will soon see significant performance and protection enhancements. This functionality rewrite includes reduced footprint, AI-first protection and more. See Updates

What’s New

Sophos Mobile XDR is Here!
Mobile XDR lets Sophos customers quickly identify devices running at-risk apps, OS versions that are rooted or jailbroken, and other vulnerabilities. Take a Look

Sophos XDR: Enhanced Investigations and Office 365 Integration
To accelerate threat detection and investigation across customer environments, we’ve enhanced our Investigations dashboard and have integrated Microsoft 365 data into Sophos XDR. Read All About It

Going Soon

Sophos Firewall OS v18.0 (SFOS)
SFOS v18.0 is scheduled to become end-of life at the end of July 2022. This early announcement is intended to give you sufficient time to plan your upgrade to a newer version. Devices must be updated to a more recent firmware release before the EOL date. Discover more

Sophos XG Series hardware appliances
The end-of-sale date for any available XG Series appliances has been extended until March 31, 2022. Model availability will vary by region. All lifecycle milestones for the XG Series and related subscriptions have been extended by one quarter. Read more in this article

Sophos UTM Manager (SUM)
The distribution of the Sophos UTM Manager (SUM) has been stopped and the End-of-Life date for this product is on December 31, 2022. All existing licenses have been extended to December 31, 2025 and the extended license can be obtained via the myUTM Licensing Portal. How to get an extended license (EN)

Old SSL VPN Client
The EOL of the old SSL VPN Client is effective from Jan 31, 2022. Sophos SSL VPN clients will continue to function, but new downloads are no longer be available. Migration Path: Sophos Connect 

Old IPsec VPN Client
We are announcing the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the old Sophos IPsec VPN client for Windows. Discover more

  • End-of-Sale: March 31, 2022 
  • End-of-Life: March 31, 2023 
  • Migration Path: Sophos Connect 

PureMessage for Exchange
The EOL will be June 30, 2023 – there is no migration path.

PureMessage for Unix
The EOL will be June 30, 2023 – the migration path is Sophos Email.

Sophos Email Appliance 
The EOL will be June 30, 2023 – the migration path is Sophos Email.

Endpoint Protection, Server Protection and Enterprise Console products (standalone or managed on premises)
The EOL will be July 20, 2023 – the migration path is Intercept X Advanced or Intercept X Advanced for Server

Sophos Mobile (managed on premises)
The EOL will be July 20, 2023 – the migration path is Sophos Mobile managed in Sophos Central.

SafeGuard Enterprise
The EOL will be July 20, 2023 – the migration path is Sophos Central Device Encryption.

 

Abbreviation index: EoS = End of Sale, EoL = End of Life

Additionally, check out our Sophos Product Lifecycle page and Upcoming Training Courses.

About the Author

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.