{"id":9196,"date":"2025-05-14T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:35:34","slug":"sophos-firewall-v21-5-dns-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2025\/05\/products\/sophos-firewall-v21-5-dns-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Firewall v21.5 \u2013 DNS Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we made <a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2024\/06\/products\/sophos-dns-protection-is-now-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophos DNS Protection<\/a> available to all Sophos Firewall Xstream Protection customers for no extra charge, and in March, we <a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2025\/03\/products\/sophos-dns-protection-expanded-management-regions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extended Sophos Central management region support<\/a> around the world. Now, with v21.5, we\u2019re further integrating DNS Protection into Sophos Firewall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Demo Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watch this video for a detailed demo of the new DNS Protection widget and guided tutorials on how to set up DNS Protection on your firewall, your devices, and perform troubleshooting:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vidyard_iframe\" title=\"Sophos Firewall v21.5: DNS Protection\" src=\"\/\/play.vidyard.com\/tjtTBKvpYiYMPRHQcqzjEr.html?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s New:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a new Control Center widget indicating the status of DNS Protection:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9197 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sophos-central-control-center-dns-protection.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sophos-central-control-center-dns-protection.png 705w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sophos-central-control-center-dns-protection.png?resize=243,300 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are also guided tutorials that walk you through the steps to set up DNS Protection on your firewall, your devices, and even set up a NAT rule to enforce DNS Protection usage. Click the \u201cSophos Assistant\u201d tab on the bottom of your Control Center screen to access these guided tours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9198 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sohos-central-control-center-sophos-assistant.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sohos-central-control-center-sophos-assistant.png 1430w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sohos-central-control-center-sophos-assistant.png?resize=300,155 300w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sohos-central-control-center-sophos-assistant.png?resize=768,398 768w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sohos-central-control-center-sophos-assistant.png?resize=1024,531 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Helpful Documentation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.sophos.com\/central\/customer\/help\/en-us\/ManageYourProducts\/DNSProtection\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online documentation<\/a> for full details on how to setup DNS Protection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-9196","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\/9196","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=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9201,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9201"}],"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=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}