Overcoming Challenges with SD-WAN<\/strong><\/h3>\nAs more business applications and services move to the cloud, organizations are looking for ways to reduce the cost of one of their biggest IT expenditures: their wide area network (WAN) or internet connectivity. This need has helped create a tremendous amount of buzz around SD-WAN, and rightly so, given the benefits it can provide for savings and simplification. However, as organizations transition their WAN infrastructure to lower-cost public internet connections like cable, DSL and 3G\/4G, they also need to deal with the added challenges that come with that, including potential compromises on uptime, reliability, and quality of service. This usually entails having multiple service providers, connections, and routes between any two points. As a result, SD-WAN features and capabilities that enable organizations to flexibly route their most important application traffic have become critically important.<\/p>\n
Key SD-WAN Features in v18<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n- SD-WAN Policy-based Routing Enhancements<\/strong>
\nPolicy-based routing gains additional SD-WAN flexibility and even more granular control. If you have multiple internet connections, routing can now be defined through either the primary or backup gateway WAN connection and can be configured for replay direction. Additionally, routing decisions are now decoupled from firewall rules and merged with SD-WAN policy-based routes, enabling more powerful and flexible configuration options in policy routes.<\/li>\n- SD-WAN Application Routing<\/strong>
\nOptimized application routing and path selection is often an important consideration when implementing SD-WAN. XG Firewall v18 adds user and group application-based traffic selection criteria to XG Firewall\u2019s SD-WAN routing configuration to ensure business-critical applications are routed over optimal WAN links.
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<\/li>\n- Synchronized SD-WAN<\/strong>
\nSynchronized SD-WAN, a new Sophos Synchronized Security feature, offers additional benefits with SD-WAN application routing. Synchronized SD-WAN leverages the added clarity and reliability of application identification that comes with the sharing of Synchronized Application Control information between Sophos-managed endpoints and XG Firewall. Synchronized Application Control can positively identify 100% of all networked applications, including evasive, encrypted, obscure, and custom applications. Now, these previously unidentified applications can also be added to SD-WAN routing policies, offering a level of application routing control and reliability other firewalls can\u2019t match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFor those of you who\u2019ve been testing EAP 1 or EAP 2 firmware, thanks for providing feedback \u2013 and be sure to check out the latest EAP 3 build. If you\u2019re new to SD-WAN and want to learn more about how XG Firewall integrates this technology and the benefits you\u2019ll experience, see our\u00a0SD-WAN page<\/a>\u00a0on the Sophos website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"XG Firewall v18 is almost here. It will also deliver enhancements to our integrated SD-WAN capabilities designed specifically for distributed organizations with remote and branch locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":607,"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":[10,38],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-product-news","tag-xg-firewall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/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\/311","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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- SD-WAN Policy-based Routing Enhancements<\/strong>
\nPolicy-based routing gains additional SD-WAN flexibility and even more granular control. If you have multiple internet connections, routing can now be defined through either the primary or backup gateway WAN connection and can be configured for replay direction. Additionally, routing decisions are now decoupled from firewall rules and merged with SD-WAN policy-based routes, enabling more powerful and flexible configuration options in policy routes.<\/li>\n- SD-WAN Application Routing<\/strong>
\nOptimized application routing and path selection is often an important consideration when implementing SD-WAN. XG Firewall v18 adds user and group application-based traffic selection criteria to XG Firewall\u2019s SD-WAN routing configuration to ensure business-critical applications are routed over optimal WAN links.
\n<\/li>\n- Synchronized SD-WAN<\/strong>
\nSynchronized SD-WAN, a new Sophos Synchronized Security feature, offers additional benefits with SD-WAN application routing. Synchronized SD-WAN leverages the added clarity and reliability of application identification that comes with the sharing of Synchronized Application Control information between Sophos-managed endpoints and XG Firewall. Synchronized Application Control can positively identify 100% of all networked applications, including evasive, encrypted, obscure, and custom applications. Now, these previously unidentified applications can also be added to SD-WAN routing policies, offering a level of application routing control and reliability other firewalls can\u2019t match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFor those of you who\u2019ve been testing EAP 1 or EAP 2 firmware, thanks for providing feedback \u2013 and be sure to check out the latest EAP 3 build. If you\u2019re new to SD-WAN and want to learn more about how XG Firewall integrates this technology and the benefits you\u2019ll experience, see our\u00a0SD-WAN page<\/a>\u00a0on the Sophos website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- SD-WAN Application Routing<\/strong>