Sophos Firewall

Powerful Protection and Performance

Appliance • Cloud • Virtual

Xstream Protection

Sophos Firewall’s Xstream architecture protects your network from the latest threats while accelerating your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud application traffic.

• TLS 1.3 Decryption

  Remove an enormous blind spot with intelligent TLS inspection that’s fast and effective, supporting the latest standards with extensive exceptions and point-and-click policy tools to make your job easy.

• Deep Packet Inspection

  Stop the latest ransomware and breaches with high-performance streaming deep packet inspection, including next-gen IPS, web protection, and app control, as well as deep learning and sandboxing powered by SophosLabs Intelix.

• Application Acceleration

  Accelerate your SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud traffic such as VoIP, video, and other trusted applications automatically or via your own policies, putting them on the Xstream FastPath to optimize performance.

  Xstream SD-WAN

  The latest SD-WAN capabilities in Sophos Firewall enable extreme network performance, flexibility, and resiliency.

  • Xstream FastPath Acceleration

    Accelerate SD-WAN IPsec VPN tunnel flows taking full advantage of the hardware crypto capabilities in XGS Series appliances.

  • Performance-Based Routing

    Automatically optimize routing and rerouting of traffic based on WAN Link performance (latency, jitter, loss) in real time with zero impact.

  • Point-and-Click Orchestration

    Easily set up the most complex hub-and-spoke or full mesh SD-WAN overlay networks with full tunnel redundancy with just a few clicks.

    Powerful Performance

    The XGS Series delivers Xstream performance at every price point to power the protection you need for today’s diverse, distributed, and encrypted networks.

    • Powered by Xstream

      Accelerate and offload your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud traffic at the hardware level, while adding performance headroom for TLS and deep packet inspection with integrated Xstream Flow Processors.

    • High-Speed Connectivity

      Customize your firewall’s already versatile connectivity options with an extensive range of add-on modules for high-speed copper, fiber, Power over Ethernet (PoE), and Wi-Fi.

    • Purpose-Built Performance

      Rest assured, your firewall is purpose-built from the core to handle the most demanding workloads with a dual processor architecture, generous memory provisioning, and high-performance solid-state storage.