{"id":1891,"date":"2020-09-03T05:33:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:55:03","slug":"tech-news-new-xg-firewall-resources-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/09\/products\/tech-news-new-xg-firewall-resources-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech News: New XG Firewall Resources Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of these resources focus on the performance enhancements form a central theme of the version 18 release. In addition, XG Firewall is much more than just a firewall; it&#8217;s the heart of any customer&#8217;s network, it offers a full ecosystem of options and add-ons for customers to extend their network and their protection. Read on and you will find some great resources to help position XG in that way.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s begin with the theme of performance, since it is one of the main advantages that XG Version 18 brings. We have updated our sales collateral to reflect the enhancements in throughout and other metrics that come with the new release. You can find the following new tools available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/medialibrary\/PDFs\/factsheets\/sophos-xg-series-appliances-brna.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XG V18 Brochure<\/a> (featuring hardware, software and virtual deployment options, SD-RED and Wireless)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/medialibrary\/PDFs\/factsheets\/sophos-xg-firewall-key-new-features.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What\u2019s New in XG V18<\/a> (A breakdown of all the great new features of XG V18)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/next-gen-firewall\/tech-specs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Product Comparison Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I\u2019m sure the big question on your mind is \u2018Exactly how much faster is version 18\u2019? Well, of course the actual answer varies between appliance types and a whole host of other factors. Don\u2019t forget your friendly Sophos Account Manager and Sales Engineer will be happy to assist you with any sizing questions you might have.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s turn to the topic of XG firewall as part of an ecosphere of security solutions. We\u2019ve updated our main XG webpages to include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/next-gen-firewall\/ecosystem.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page dedicated to this topic<\/a>. This is a great way to open a prospect\u2019s mind to the possibilities of cybersecurity as a system. There is a new datasheet that focusses on the integration of XG into Sophos Central which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/medialibrary\/pdfs\/factsheets\/sophos-central-xg-firewall-brochure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download from here<\/a>. Now you can wow your prospects with the idea of a single dashboard to encompasses both endpoint and firewall security (and more besides!) along with a webpage that we\u2019ll keep updated with all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/next-gen-firewall\/ecosystem-central.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest integration capabilities<\/a> as they develop.<\/p>\n<p>Finally in this topic, don\u2019t forget that you can now harness the power of Sophos Central to get the maximum information out of your XG with our new Central Firewall Reporting product. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/next-gen-firewall\/central-reporting\/sizing-tool.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new sizing calculator<\/a> helps when it comes to working out your customers\u2019 storage requirements.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see the release of XG Version 18 brings with it lots of opportunities to engage in a conversation with prospects and customers about their security estate and with the developments in synchronised security. Both new and existing customers can benefit from consolidating their products and enjoying better security with a lower cost of ownership.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you make great use of these new tools to help promote that message!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, I\u2019m pleased to introduce a whole raft of new resources to make the promotion and specification of XG Firewalls easier! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[38,16],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","category-resources","tag-xg-firewall","tag-technical-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/featured-image-UKI-tech-update-Partner-app-icon-1600x960-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}