Sophos Firewall v19.5 – High Availability Enhancements

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Check out all the great new features in SFOS v19.5 today.

11 Nov 2022 Autore:

In this ongoing series of articles about the great new features in SFOS v19.5, we’ve covered new search capabilities, SD-WAN Load Balancing, Xstream TLS FastPath, Azure AD integration, and now this week, high availability enhancements.

Sophos Firewall High Availability

Sophos Firewall supports high availability (HA) clustering of two appliances in active-active or active-passive operation for higher performance and redundancy.  SFOS v18 introduced a major new enhancement to high availability with QuickHA setup that makes configuration almost a plug-and-play exercise.

If you’re not familiar with the various HA modes or how to use QuickHA, check out the great two-part video series on these topics.

What’s New with High Availability in v19.5

Making Management Easier:

Several user interface enhancements improve the status and visibility of your high-availability cluster with a new control center widget, enhanced status panel, and new node names for easy device identification.

Node Names help identify the particular device in the cluster and are shown on the browser tab, HA status page, HA logs, command line interface, and Control Center to make it very easy to know which device you are currently interacting with.

The new HA status panel and widget (available at the top of every screen) make management easier.

 

Redundant HA Links

High Availability pairs can now be synchronized with redundant HA links to add resiliency and prevent split- brain conditioning. Up to 4 links can be provisioned for HA pairs using physical, LAG, VLAN or unbound interfaces. Conveniently, LAG configuration happens automatically behind the scenes in QuickHA mode.

You can now use multiple HA links for redundancy.

Check out this video for a full demonstration of all the great new HA enhancements in SFOS v19.5:

Check out all the new features in v19.5

Sophos Firewall OS v19.5 includes a ton of great new capabilities. Check out the full list of what’s new in this What’s New PDF download.

SFOS v19.5 early access

Check out all the great new features in SFOS v19.5 today and help us make this release the best it can be by participating in the early access program. Visit the SFOS v19.5 EAP registration page to get started.

Sophos Firewall OS v19.5 EAP1 is a fully supported upgrade from any v18.5 firmware as well as v19, including the very recent v19 MR1 build 365 release.

Once you’re up and running, please provide feedback through your Sophos Firewall’s feedback mechanism (top right of every screen on your Firewall). Also visit our EAP community forums to share your experiences with others.

Informazioni sull’autore

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.