{"id":6769,"date":"2023-10-17T14:53:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2023-11-02T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T08:48:54","slug":"sophos-firewall-v20-azure-ad-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/2023\/10\/products\/sophos-firewall-v20-azure-ad-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Firewall v20 Azure AD Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Sophos Firewall v20 now available for <a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/sophos-xg-firewall\/sfos-v20-early-access-program\/b\/announcements\/posts\/sophos-firewall-v20-early-access-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early access<\/a>, we will be covering some of the top new features every week leading up to launch.<\/p>\n<p>In last week\u2019s article, we covered the new <a href=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2023\/10\/products\/sophos-firewall-v20-vpn-enhancements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPN enhancements<\/a> in Sophos Firewall v20. This week, we\u2019ll have a look at the latest enhancements to Azure Active Directory authentication and group imports with Sophos Firewall v20.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this quick video overview of the new Azure AD enhancements:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vidyard_iframe\" title=\"Sophos Firewall v20: Captive Portal SSO &amp; Group Import\" src=\"\/\/play.vidyard.com\/ZRfL8d1UXgJw6idbsSjn1k.html?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an overview of what\u2019s been enhanced with Azure AD on Sophos Firewall v20:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6770 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/image001-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1431\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Azure AD SSO for captive portal<\/strong> \u2013 Sophos Firewall OS v19.5 added Azure AD SSO for the webadmin portal, and with v20, it adds support for user authentication to the captive portal using Azure AD credentials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6771 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1432\" height=\"536\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Azure Group Import<\/strong> \u2013 You can now take advantage of the new import assistant for Azure AD groups to import just those groups that match attributes you specify or simply import all groups. This eliminates the need for manual group creation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6772 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/image005-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1429\" height=\"697\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Automatic Azure RBAC <\/strong>\u2013 If a user\u2019s role changes in Azure, the firewall will automatically promote or demote them on their next login to their new role and apply the appropriate profile and privileges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Early Access Program<\/h2>\n<p>Please note that the early access program has ended \u2013 we expect to announce general availability very soon! A special thanks to all who have participated in the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start taking advantage of all the great new features in SFOS v20 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3000006677,"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":[70],"tags":[9,220,110],"coauthors":[44],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-early-access-program","tag-sfos-v20","tag-sophos-firewall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/featured-image-sophos-firewall-v20.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}