{"id":9345,"date":"2025-07-10T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T09:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:41:39","slug":"sophos-central-firewall-management-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/2025\/07\/products\/sophos-central-firewall-management-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Central Firewall Management Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019re updating Sophos Central firewall management with a couple of important updates including a new account health check feature, and enhanced scalability and performance for partners managing large groups of customers.<\/p>\n<p>The new account health check capability provides a framework that will be expanded over time to perform a variety of helpful assessments across your entire estate. We\u2019re kicking this off this new account health check capability with a firewall backup assessment.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Firewall Backup Health Check<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This new assessment will review your firewalls under management for backup status and will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify all firewalls in your estate that are not on a backup schedule<\/li>\n<li>Automatically add a backup schedule for those firewalls not already on a schedule<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This ensures all your firewalls are backing up regularly to Sophos Central so if you ever need a configuration backup for one of your devices, it\u2019s only a few clicks away.<\/p>\n<p>You will find a new widget for Firewalls under the Dashboards &gt; Account Health Check area:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9427 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sophos-firewall-account-health-check.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scrolling down will show the new firewall backup assessment results, where you can choose to ignore the results, drill-down to see what firewalls are missing backups, or fix them all automatically and assign a backup schedule:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9428\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sophos-firewall-backup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You should see this new capability in Sophos Central next time you login.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, we will be adding more health check assessments over time for licensing, firmware, and more.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Scalability and Performance Enhancements for Partners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Overall performance and scalability has been improved for partners managing large numbers of customers. 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