Guest User!

You are not Sophos Staff.

Thread Info
  • State Not Answered
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 3 replies
  • Subscribers 9 subscribers
  • Views 1362 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Suggested
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Sophos Central Endpoint protection firewall policy

itguy318

Members whats your take on the firewll policy included with sophos central. dont seem to have much documentation on this policy except for monitoring or blocking the network profiles on the pc's. How does it work and is there an exception (allow a program) and block the rest using this policy.



This thread was automatically locked due to age.
Parents
  • 0

    Hi Dylan,

    The Central Windows Firewall utilizes Windows Firewall on the machine.  It can either report events to Sophos Central or report and also Allow/Block for Doman/Private/Public networks.  If you wanted to create an exception to a network block, this would be done on Windows Firewall.

  • 0 in reply to MEric

    Thanks. Can i use group policy to allow an exception on the pc's for an application and still use sophos central  client firewall policy to work together.

  • 0 in reply to itguy318

    Yes, this is the ideal method of pushing out Windows Firewall exceptions to a group of computers.  Sophos Central Firewall policy will work with this as long as the Windows Firewall policy is set to "Block (with exceptions)" for a network.  I'd advise pushing both the group policy and Central Windows Firewall policy out to a single machine as a test before rolling it out to the rest of your environment.

Reply
  • 0 in reply to itguy318

    Yes, this is the ideal method of pushing out Windows Firewall exceptions to a group of computers.  Sophos Central Firewall policy will work with this as long as the Windows Firewall policy is set to "Block (with exceptions)" for a network.  I'd advise pushing both the group policy and Central Windows Firewall policy out to a single machine as a test before rolling it out to the rest of your environment.

Children
No Data
Unfiltered HTML