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Sophos Central - (client firewall?)

Steven Milner

I have just purchased the "Sophos Central - Endpoint Advanced" and cannot see an option to configure a software firewall;

Has this been dropped from Sophos Central?
And how is everyone else managing client firewalls?

tia ..



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    Hi,

    It certainly isn't available via Central at this time.

    I would suspect the most obvious thing would be to use GPO to manage the Windows firewall.  At the time Sophos Client Firewall was introduced, the Windows firewall wasn't very good. I think we're talking XP pre SP2.

    I would expect that it would be more likely we would see a way to configure the Windows firewall through Central (in the same way as you can manage Bitlocker) but then that's a lot of front end to manage the settings that Group Policy provides.

    Regards,

    Jak

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    Thanks Jak, I did get confirmation form Sophos that the firewall has been dropped, I think that it would be a great idea if Sophos were to implement some type of management for the windows firewall, at least so that you are aware of the status and that it is active on the client machines, GPO can sometimes be unreliable..

    Regards,

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  • +1 in reply to jak

    Thanks Jak, I did get confirmation form Sophos that the firewall has been dropped, I think that it would be a great idea if Sophos were to implement some type of management for the windows firewall, at least so that you are aware of the status and that it is active on the client machines, GPO can sometimes be unreliable..

    Regards,

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