{"id":8298,"date":"2024-10-02T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2024-10-02T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:32:58","slug":"sophos-firewall-v21-streamlined-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2024\/10\/products\/sophos-firewall-v21-streamlined-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Firewall v21: Streamlined Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos Firewall v21 brings several quality-of-life enhancements to streamline day-to-day management and improve the overall user experience.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>User Interface Enhancements:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Significantly enhanced responsiveness<\/li>\n<li>Refreshed look-and-feel integrating the latest Sophos style guidelines for consistency with Sophos Central and your other Sophos products<\/li>\n<li>Improved horizontal layout to better take advantage of widescreen displays<\/li>\n<li>New card views to further enhance visibility into important network events and data with the same flip and drill-down capabilities as before<\/li>\n<li>An all-new Active Threat Response card consolidates threat information from MDR, Sophos X-Ops, and Third-Party Threat Feeds into a single, easy-to-view section.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8172\" style=\"width: 2031px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8172 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sophos-firewall-v21-control-center.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2031\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sophos-firewall-v21-control-center.png 2031w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sophos-firewall-v21-control-center.png?resize=300,155 300w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sophos-firewall-v21-control-center.png?resize=768,397 768w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sophos-firewall-v21-control-center.png?resize=1024,529 1024w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sophos-firewall-v21-control-center.png?resize=1536,794 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2031px) 100vw, 2031px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The refreshed Control Center includes a new card for Active Threat Response<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Network Object References:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New visibility into network object usage is now provided for interfaces, zones, gateways, and SD-WAN profiles. Simply click the new \u201cusage\u201d indicator on any of these screens for a quick view of the associated network objects. You can then drill down to view or edit the object details and settings in-place.<\/li>\n<li>A new XML API is also provided to retrieve object reference (usage) counts, offering visibility into unused objects. See the video below for details and a demo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8299\" style=\"width: 1430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8299 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sophos-firewall-v21-network-objects.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sophos-firewall-v21-network-objects.png 1430w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sophos-firewall-v21-network-objects.png?resize=300,145 300w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sophos-firewall-v21-network-objects.png?resize=768,370 768w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sophos-firewall-v21-network-objects.png?resize=1024,493 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See what network objects are associated with interfaces, zones, gateways, and SD-WAN profiles with drill-down in-place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch this short demo video to see how the new quality of life enhancements in action:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vidyard_iframe\" title=\"Sophos Firewall v21: Quality of Life Enhancements\" src=\"\/\/play.vidyard.com\/aFSEqKEsMfH24tfaPfMWoN.html?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Start taking advantage of this great new capability in Sophos Firewall v21 by participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.sophos.com\/events\/9496899a-0e84-4fa3-9d8a-07f23841dc1c\">Early Access Program<\/a>.\u00a0 Simply register for the program, click the link in your email to download the firmware update package, and install it on your Sophos Firewall.<\/p>\n<p>Get the <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.sophos.com\/X24WTUEQ\/at\/7t8k46h9ttmxt6pn8g58k7wb\/sophos-firewall-key-new-features-v21.pdf\">What\u2019s New Guide<\/a> for a complete overview of all the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3000008219,"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":[9,310,149],"coauthors":[58],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-early-access-program","tag-sfos-v21","tag-sophos-firewall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/featured-image-sophos-firewall-v21.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","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=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8301,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/8301"}],"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=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}