Flavors

This section provides information about different flavors available for XG Firewall.

Sophos is available in following flavors:

  • Physical devices
  • Virtual devices
  • Software

Physical devices

Sophos provides a range of physical devices to cater the needs of all size of businesses i.e. small business to home users to enterprises.

Virtual devices

Virtual network security devices can be deployed as next-generation firewalls or UTMs and offer industry-leading network security to virtual data-centers, “Security-in-a-box” setup for MSSPs/organizations, and “Office-in-a-box” setup. By offering comprehensive security features available in its hardware security devices, in virtualized form, these virtual devices offer layer-8 identity-based security on a single virtual device, which is as strong as security for physical networks.

Sophos offers a complete virtual security solution to organizations with its virtual network security devices (next-generation firewalls/UTMs), virtual Sophos Firewall Manager (SFM) for centralized management, and Sophos iView software for centralized logging and reporting.