Why Sophos Firewall?

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), 4G/5G, and Wi-Fi.
• Performance by Design From the smallest entry-level device to our enterprise and campus edge models, every firewall is purpose-built to handle the most demanding workloads with a dual processor architecture, generous memory provisioning, and high-performance solid-state storage.

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