Sophos Cloud Native Security <\/p>\n Sophos Firewall v19 MR1 Adds Support Requirement for Future Firmware Upgrades<\/strong> Change in Account Permissions Affecting Partner Central Firewall Management<\/strong> New 2.5G 24- and 48-Port Switches Now Available<\/span><\/b> <\/p>\n Sophos Ideas Feature Request Portal<\/strong> Sophos Firewall OS v18.0 (SFOS)<\/span> Sophos Firewall\u00a0XG 85(w), XG 105(w), and Sophos Firewall OS v17.5<\/strong> Sophos Authenticator (Android and iOS app versions)<\/strong> Sophos XG Series hardware appliances Sophos AP Series Access Points<\/strong> For further information to help you and your customers plan for this important lifecycle milestone, read this blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n PureMessage for Exchange<\/strong> PureMessage for Unix<\/strong> Sophos Email Appliance\u202f<\/strong> Endpoint Protection, Server Protection and Enterprise Console products<\/strong>\u00a0(standalone or managed on premises) Sophos Mobile (managed on premises)<\/strong> SafeGuard\u202fEnterprise<\/strong> Sophos UTM Manager<\/strong> Find out what\u2019s new, what\u2019s coming, and what\u2019s going in our latest product life cycle report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":300000397,"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":[22],"coauthors":[64],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-sophos-product-lifecycle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/featured-image-product-lifecycle.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","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=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions\/5120"}],"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=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Get comprehensive security and protection for your customers\u2019 Windows and Linux Server workloads<\/span> in the cloud \u2014 with the new Cloud Native Security Bundle combining Intercept X for Server with XDR and Cloud Optix. As customers migrate server workloads to cloud hosts or containers, they want a single integrated cloud security platform that provides comprehensive visibility, prioritized detections, and faster incident response time. To address this need, Sophos is introducing the Cloud Native Security bundle<\/span> allowing you to provide complete multi-cloud and on-prem security coverage across environments, workloads, and identities at an attractive price. Find out more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nWhat’s New<\/h2>\n
\nCurrently scheduled for July 19, 2022, the soft release of Sophos Firewall OS (SFOS) v19 MR1 introduces some changes to the scope of our support licensing and future access to firmware upgrades. There is no change for the approx. 80% of customers <\/span>with a valid support subscription. While there is no immediate change for the remaining 20% who do not own support today, they will need to add support once they have used their three-free-upgrade allocation.\u00a0Discover more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe Sophos Central Partner Dashboard allows partners to set permissions per partner dashboard login, limiting which customer accounts these logins can interact with. Effective July 4, this restriction will be enforced on Firewall groups as it is with other global templates. <\/span><\/span>Find out more<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>After the launch of our first cloud-managed, network access layer switches in December 2021, we have now introduced two additional 2.5G models: CS210-24FP and CS210-48FP. <\/span>Find out more<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nGoing Soon<\/h2>\n
\nWe will be retiring the legacy Sophos Ideas<\/strong>\u00a0portal (https:\/\/ideas.sophos.com<\/a>) on July 26, 2022. In its place, we are introducing a new and more modern feature request process which allows us to capture feature requests and ideas directly in our existing Product Management planning tools. Learn more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>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.<\/span>\u00a0Discover more<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAs previously announced, the following products will reach their end-of-life date on August 17, 2022 and will no longer be supported: XG 85(w) hardware appliance, XG 105(w) hardware appliance and SFOS v17.5 for the before mentioned models. Learn more on migration paths<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nWe have announced a July 31, 2022 End-of-Life (EOL) date for both the Android and iOS app versions of this product.
\nRecommended alternatives:<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>We continue to sell any available XG Series appliance beyond the March 31, 2022 end-of-sale date. Model availability will vary by region.\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nThe EOL for AP Series models is March 31, 2023.
\nThe EOL for the following AP Series models has been extended from March 31, 2023 to December 31,2023:<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nThe EOL will be June 30,\u202f2023\u202f\u2013 there is no migration path.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be June 30,\u202f2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Email.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be June 30,\u202f2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Email.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be July 20, 2023 \u2013 the migration path is Intercept X Advanced or Intercept X Advanced for Server<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be July 20, 2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Mobile managed in Sophos Central.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be July 20, 2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Central Device Encryption.<\/p>\n
\nThe distribution of the Sophos UTM Manager (SUM) has been stopped and the End-of-Life date for this product is on December 31, 2022.\u00a0All existing licenses have been extended to December 31, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0and the extended license can be obtained via the myUTM Licensing Portal.\u202f\u00a0How to get an extended license (EN)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"