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 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.

Xstream SD-WAN

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

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.