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Sophos Firewall Manager

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Sophos Firewall Manager Sophos Firewall Manager (SFM) provides powerful centralized management for all your Sophos Firewalls across multiple customers sites or branch offices – all from a single screen. Whether you’re an MSP, Enterprise Network Security Admin, or simply managing a few small offices, SFM simplifies security management enabling consistent enforcement, easy provisioning of new policies, and at-a-glance monitoring of device health. SFM saves you time, money and makes management simpler. Whether you’re managing a few firewalls or a few hundred, Sophos Firewall Manager, includes everything you need: Comprehensive Centralized Management Extensive Administrative controls Ì Manage all Firewall policies and configuration from a single console Ì Flexible grouping of devices by region, model, or other parameters Ì Ensure uniform policy implementation across sites Ì Role-based administration to delegate control by job function Ì Reuse configuration templates to streamline setup of new firewalls Insightful Monitoring Ì Change control & logging to track and roll back changes Flexible Deployment Options Ì At-a-glance device and network health indicators Ì Available as a software or virtual appliance Ì Multiple view options with customizable warning thresholds Ì Integration with iView to sync admin users and devices Ì Customizable threshold-based alert notifications Sophos Firewall Manager Comprehensive Centralized Management Insightful monitoring Complete firewall management of all your devices Device health monitor Centrally manage firewall policies and configuration for all your security features for network protection, Application filtering, Web filtering, IPS, VPN, Email, and more. And we make it easy by ensuring the controls and user interface are consistent between Sophos Firewall Manager and the onbox management console. Streamline setup of new devices Simply point your new firewalls at SFM - a convenient wizard guides you through the device enrolment, compatibility checks, and device synchronization in just a few clicks. Push, pull or replicate policies You can push, pull or replicate policies amongst your various firewalls or have new devices inherit policies automatically when they come online. Consistent policy implementation across sites Eliminate security risks by deploying your policies consistently across distributed firewall deployments from a single console. Sophos Firewall Manager makes it easy to ensure uniform policy implementation across all your devices. Template-based configuration Create re-usable configuration templates that help you save time and effort setting up a new device or customer. You can create a new template, clone or copy an existing template or create one from an existing device configuration. For example, apply a branch office template to new branch offices easily or create special templates focused on particular needs like an education vertical. Centrally manage updates Save time updating each firewall separately by managing firmware updates from Sophos Firewall Manager. Also, manage pattern updates centrally and maintain a configuration back-up repository locally, via FTP or over email. Monitor the health of your managed devices including their security, resources, availability, and licensing status all from the central dashboard. Utilize a variety of views to focus on just what’s important and adjust threshold values for monitoring parameters based on your specific business needs. Alerts You can configure alerts to get notifications on a broad range of events including subscription expiry, gateway status change, excessive disk usage, ATP events, IPS and virus threat counts, unhealthy surfing, and much more. Event thresholds are completely customizable, ensuring you only get alerted when it’s important. Sophos Firewall Manager Extensive Administrative control Change Control & Logging Intelligent grouping of devices We’ve made change control easy. View details of configuration changes, compare different versions of configurations and roll back configuration changes to discard unwanted changes. Sophos Firewall Manager offers you a complete audit trail of policy and device changes to help with compliance management. Conveniently group devices by model, firmware, country, device name and more for quick and easy action, management, and monitoring. Role-based Administration Maintain centralized control over what each administrator can do through Sophos Firewall Manager’s role-based administration. Delegate role-based access to different members of your IT staff based on their security functions such as VPN admin, App and Web Security admin, IPS admin. And in doing so, limit their access to other functions that are not related to their job roles or keep it read-only. Utilize SFM’s detailed audit logs and views of administrator and device activity for forensic or regulatory compliance investigations across your distributed network. Sophos Firewall Manager Flexible Deployment Options Integration with the new Sophos iView Choose a software or virtual appliance Sophos Firewall Manager integrates easily with the new Sophos iView enabling auto-provisioning of managed devices and automatic synchronization of administrators in the new Sophos iView. Deploy SFM as a software appliance (on compatible x86 hardware) or as a virtual appliance on VMware, Xen, KVM, or Hyper-V platforms to meet your virtualization objectives of saving cost and rack space. Software and Virtual Technical Specifications Virtual and Software deployments of SFM are licensed based on the number of devices managed and a no-charge evaluation license is available for managing up to 5 firewall devices. Virtual /Software SFM v5* SFM v15 SFM v50 SFM v100 SFM v200 SFM v500 SFM v1000 5 15 50 100 200 500 1000 Dual Core Dual Core Dual Core Dual Core Dual Core Quad Core Quad Core 2 GB 2 GB 4 GB 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 16 GB 160 GB 160 GB 250 GB 500 GB 500 GB 1 TB 1 TB 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4 Number of Sophos Firewall OS devices supported Recommended CPU** Recommended Memory (vRAM) Recommended HDD Network Interface Support (Minimum /Maximum) * Free for evaluation purpose ** CPU frequency 2.7 GHz or equivalent Try it now for free Register for a free evaluation at sophos.com/SFM United Kingdom and Worldwide Sales Tel: +44 (0)8447 671131 Email: sales@sophos.com North American Sales Toll Free: 1-866-866-2802 Email: nasales@sophos.com © Copyright 2018. Sophos Ltd. All rights reserved. Registered in England and Wales No. 2096520, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, UK Sophos is the registered trademark of Sophos Ltd. All other product and company names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 18-08-10 DS-NA (NP) Australia and New Zealand Sales Tel: +61 2 9409 9100 Email: sales@sophos.com.au Asia Sales Tel: +65 62244168 Email: salesasia@sophos.com