{"id":2924,"date":"2021-04-06T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:31:39","slug":"xg-firewall-v18-mr5-released-with-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2021\/04\/products\/xg-firewall-v18-mr5-released-with-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"XG Firewall v18 MR5 Released with New Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What\u2019s New in v18 MR5:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>VPN Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A huge 50% increase in concurrent IPSec VPN tunnel capacity <a href=\"https:\/\/support.sophos.com\/support\/s\/article\/KB-000039345?language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">across the line<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Port 443 sharing between SSL VPN and the Web Application Firewall (WAF)<\/li>\n<li>IPSec provisioning file support for remote access vis Sophos Connect v2.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SD-WAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integration with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2021\/04\/01\/secure-sd-wan-with-xg-firewall-and-azure-virtual-wan\/\">Azure Virtual WAN<\/a> for a complete SD-WAN overlay network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Authentication<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integration with Azure Active Directory (<a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/sophos-xg-firewall\/f\/recommended-reads\/125872\/sophos-xg-firewall-integrate-xg-firewall-with-azure-ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn more<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Certificate Management and Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Form enhancements for creating certificate signing requests and certificates<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced security for private keys<\/li>\n<li>Upload\/download support for PEM format certificates<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced workflows for certificate management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synchronized Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhanced registration and de-registration in high-availability (HA) installations<\/li>\n<li>Missing Heartbeat enhancements to reduce notifications sent for intended\/expected changes in endpoint status<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sophos Central Firewall Reporting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Cloud Application (CASB) report<\/li>\n<li>MSP Flex Pricing for MSP partners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/sophos-xg-firewall\/b\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full release notes<\/a> on the Sophos Community Blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Other Recent Enhancements:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re not running the latest v18 firmware on your firewall you\u2019re missing out on a ton of new capabilities and dozens of resolved issues.\u00a0 In addition to the above, these capabilities have been added in other v18 maintenance releases:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hight Availability Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved FastPath support for active-passive pairs<\/li>\n<li>HA support in AWS using the AWS Transit Gateway<\/li>\n<li>Setup, reliability and stability enhancements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>VPN and Sophos Connect Remote Access Client<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A huge increase in SSL VPN connection capacity (up to 3-6x)<\/li>\n<li>Remote access IPSec policy provisioning with Sophos Connect v2.1<\/li>\n<li>Group support for Sophos Connect which enables imports from AD\/LDAP\/etc.<\/li>\n<li>New advanced options for IPSec remote access<\/li>\n<li>Sophos Connect downloads enabled from the user portal<\/li>\n<li>Enforcement of TLS 1.2 for SSL site-to-site and remote access VPN tunnels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synchronized Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new option for Synchronized App Control to automatically clean up discovered apps over a month old<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cloud Platform Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for new AWS instances (C5\/M5 and T3)<\/li>\n<li>Support for cloud formation templates<\/li>\n<li>Virtual WAN zone support on custom gateways for post deployment single arm usage<\/li>\n<li>Nutanix and Nutanix Flow support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sophos Central<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Group Firewall Management via the Partner Dashboard<\/li>\n<li>Firmware update scheduling<\/li>\n<li>Multi-firewall reporting across firewall groups<\/li>\n<li>Save, Schedule and Export reports from Sophos Central<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Security and Authentication Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stronger password hash algorithm (requires a password change)<\/li>\n<li>Auto web-filtering of Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) identified sites containing child sexual abuse<\/li>\n<li>Support for creating users with UPN format for RADIUS authentication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>It\u2019s Easy and Free<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Of course, all these features are a free upgrade for Sophos customers and as easy as clicking to upgrade the firmware in the Firewall console or scheduling a firmware update through Sophos Central.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Upgrade to v18 today!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Now is the perfect time for your customers to upgrade. Share these excellent articles that will help your customers make the most of the many new capabilities in v18:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/07\/products\/making-the-most-of-xg-firewall-v18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xstream architecture, DPI engine, and TLS inspection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/07\/products\/making-the-most-of-xg-firewall-v18-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xstream TLS Inspection for a modern encrypted Internet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/08\/products\/making-the-most-of-xg-firewall-v18-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FastPath Application Acceleration and SD-WAN Routing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/08\/products\/making-the-most-of-xg-firewall-v18-part-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zero-day threat and ransomware protection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/08\/products\/making-the-most-of-xg-firewall-v18-part-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Network address translation (NAT)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/08\/products\/making-the-most-of-xg-firewall-v18-part-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Route-based IPsec site-to-site VPN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/11\/products\/switching-to-sophos-central-for-your-firewall-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Switching to Sophos Central for Firewall Management<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also check out our new and improved\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/xg-firewall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophos Community XG Firewall home page<\/a>! Subscribe to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/xg-firewall\/b\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XG Blog<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news and releases,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/xg-firewall\/f\/discussions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get expert answers<\/a>\u00a0to your technical questions, and find useful Community-created content in our \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/xg-firewall\/f\/recommended-reads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recommended Reads<\/a>\u201d section! Make sure you bookmark the <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.sophos.com\/prm\/English\/c\/selling-sophos-xg-firewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selling Sophos Firewall<\/a> page in the Sophos Partner Portal for easy access to all sales tools onXG Firewall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Maintenance Release (MR) for XG Firewall v18 has brought compelling new features as well as a variety of performance, stability, and security enhancements &#8211; and MR5 is no exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3000001634,"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],"tags":[38],"coauthors":[58],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-xg-firewall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/featured-image-xg-firewall-v18-1600x-960-horizontal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}