Create an Enterprise Admin

Follow these instructions to create an Enterprise admin.

Before you begin:

• You need to be a Super Admin administrator. See Administration roles.
• You must have an enterprise administrator to access Sophos Fusion Enterprise.
• You can use an existing Sophos Fusion Admin account. If you do, you won't be able to sign in to Sophos Fusion Admin with that account.
• You can't turn on Enterprise Management from Sophos Fusion trial accounts.

For more information, see Account preferences in Sophos Fusion Enterprise help.

Sophos Fusion Enterprise lets an administrator manage the security of an organization divided into multiple sub-estates. For example, an organization with several sites can manage each site's security as a separate sub-estate.

Click your Profile icon , and then click Account preferences to turn on Enterprise Management and create an enterprise administrator.

The enterprise administrator manages the sub-estates using Sophos Fusion Enterprise. The enterprise administrator is a Super Admin administrator for each of the sub-estates.

When you turn on Enterprise Management from a Sophos Fusion account, any other accounts associated with your customer account link to your Sophos Fusion Enterprise account as sub-estates. You can also create new sub-estates in Sophos Fusion Enterprise.

If you create an Enterprise Admin from an existing Sophos Fusion Admin account, the federated sign-in credentials and settings for that account are used for the Sophos Fusion Enterprise account.

To turn on Enterprise Management and create the Enterprise Admin, do as follows:

1. Click your Profile icon , and then click Account preferences.
2. In Enterprise Management, turn on Enterprise Management.
3. Click Save, and then click Continue.

4. Enter the account details to create the Enterprise Admin. Choose one of the following options:

   • Use your Sophos Fusion credentials: To do this, click Use my Sophos Fusion login credentials to create the first Sophos Fusion Enterprise admin.

     If you use your Sophos Fusion credentials, you can't sign in to Sophos Fusion Admin with that account.

   • Create a new account: To do this, enter new account information.

     You must use a unique email that you haven't used with any other Sophos Fusion account.

5. Click Enable Enterprise Management and Save.

   The Account Preferences tab shows that Enterprise Management is on and the name of the enterprise admin.

6. If you selected Create a new account, the Enterprise admin receives the password setup link in an email. Click the link in the setup email and create the password for the enterprise admin account.

   You can now use these account details to access Sophos Fusion Enterprise.

7. To sign in to Sophos Fusion Enterprise, go to the Sophos Fusion Admin sign-in page and enter your enterprise admin credentials.

   This opens Sophos Fusion Enterprise.

8. Check which sub-estates have allowed enterprise admins to access and manage their Sophos Fusion Admin account.

   Remember, the Sophos Fusion Admin administrators for the sub-estates have to allow access.