Introducing the Fortinet to Sophos Firewall Migration Assistant

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Making the switch from Fortinet to Sophos Firewall easier than ever with a new migration assistant

03 Abr 2025 Por

Many former Fortinet customers and partners are switching to Sophos Firewall to take advantage of the opportunity to consolidate, simplify and save on their cybersecurity. They love Sophos Central, Synchronized Security, and our commitment to Secure by Design principles, as well as the tremendous value they get with a Sophos network security solution.

We are pleased to announce we are making the switch from Fortinet to Sophos Firewall easier than ever with a new Fortinet Migration Assistant. This adds to the existing support for migrating SonicWall configurations to Sophos Firewall.

You get:

  • Support for migrating to XGS Series as well as software and virtual deployments
  • Support for Sophos Firewall version 21.0 (and later)
  • Supports backups from Fortinet 6.x and 7.x with single VDOM (and SonicWall 6.5.x and 7.x)
  • Supports selective configuration export

This Migration Assistant will migrate following entities for Fortinet:

  • Interfaces
  • Address Objects (Hosts)
  • Service Objects
  • Static routes
  • Firewall Rules

The Migration Assistant for SonicWall supports a few additional items:

  • Interfaces
  • Address Objects (Hosts)
  • Service Objects
  • Firewall Rules
  • SD-WAN Routes
  • NAT Rules
  • Threat Prevention Enablement
  • Content/ Web Filtering Lists

Items not on the supported features list above are not migrated. A few examples of features that are not migrated include: Users, Groups, Authentication, VPN, dynamic routes, administrative settings, Wi-Fi, app rules, syslog, alerts, certificates, passwords, etc. IPv6 is currently not supported.

For an overview of how to setup and use the assistant (using SonicWall as an example) check out this demo video.

Sophos Partners can download the migration tool from the Partner Portal (login required).
You can find it under the “Tech” menu by selecting “Tech Tools” and then look for “Migrating a Firewall to Sophos”.

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Chris McCormack is a network security specialist at Sophos where he has been focused on firewall and network protection since joining Sophos in 2008. When not evangelizing Sophos network security products, Chris specializes in providing advice and insight into the latest threats and network protection technologies and strategies.