Sophos ZTNA has received a couple of important updates to improve deployment ease and flexibility. These changes are part of updates to Sophos Central and don’t require any updates to your gateways or clients.
Let’s Encrypt Certificates
Sophos ZTNA now adds Let’s Encrypt certificate support for your gateways. As you probably know, Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit open certificate authority run by the Internet Research Group (ISRG) that provides X.509 certificates for TLS encryption at no charge.
Let’s Encrypt makes certificates free and easy but comes with the inconvenience of only being valid for 90 days. This means they require more frequent maintenance than other certificates, which often have a duration of 12, 24, or 36 months. Fortunately, Sophos ZTNA helps overcome this issue with support for auto-renewal 30 days prior to expiry.
You can take advantage of this with your existing gateways anytime, regardless of your deployment mode (cloud or on-premises).
Added Sophos Central Regions
Sophos ZTNA central management is now supported beyond the standard US and EU regions adding five new regions: Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, and Canada. If you currently manage your Sophos Firewall and/or Endpoints in one of these regions you can now easily add Sophos ZTNA to your account.
Get Started with ZTNA
Visit the Sophos Partner Portal for product sales and marketing resources to support your Sophos ZTNA conversations.
Customers can trial Sophos ZTNA for free. There’s a free trial available via Sophos Central, and if they’re already a Sophos Firewall customer, they can get three free one-year licenses and take advantage of the ZTNA gateway integrated into their firewall.
Check out the Deployment Checklist for other considerations when deploying ZTNA and the latest online documentation.
