{"id":9125,"date":"2025-05-02T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=9125"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:54:23","slug":"sophos-firewall-v21-5-entra-id-sso-for-sophos-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2025\/05\/products\/sophos-firewall-v21-5-entra-id-sso-for-sophos-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Firewall v21.5: Entra ID SSO for Sophos Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos Firewall v21.5 adds a top requested feature: Entra ID single sign-on (SSO) integration with Sophos Connect and the VPN portal.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>SSO for Remote Access VPN <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Adding single sign-on integration with Sophos Connect and the firewall VPN portal makes remote access VPN easier for end-users enabling them to use their corporate network credentials with the Sophos Connect client and the firewall VPN portal when working remote. It provides cloud-native integration over the industry standard OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols for a seamless experience. It fully supports Entra ID MFA to protect against identity theft and brute force hacks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9126\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sophos-firewall-sso-for-remote-access-vpn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sophos-firewall-sso-for-remote-access-vpn.png 985w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sophos-firewall-sso-for-remote-access-vpn.png?resize=300,250 300w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sophos-firewall-sso-for-remote-access-vpn.png?resize=768,639 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Demo Video<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Watch this quick demo video for a look at how it works:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vidyard_iframe\" title=\"Sophos Firewall v21.5: Entra ID SSO Integration for Sophos Connect Client\" src=\"\/\/play.vidyard.com\/ALifqghWmGdTRE6GFqerqr.html?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Helpful Documentation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.sophos.com\/nsg\/sophos-firewall\/21.0\/Help\/en-us\/webhelp\/onlinehelp\/AdministratorHelp\/Authentication\/Servers\/MicrosoftEntraID\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online documentation<\/a> for full details.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Get Started Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Start taking advantage of this great new capability in Sophos Firewall v21.5 by <a href=\"https:\/\/events.sophos.com\/events\/8412e39c-9b9d-406e-9073-3188211a2666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participating in the Early Access Program<\/a>. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3000009055,"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":[325,149],"coauthors":[58],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-sfos-v21-5","tag-sophos-firewall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/featured-image-sophos-firewall-v21-5-partner-blog-icon-1600x960px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125","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=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9129,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions\/9129"}],"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=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}