Sophos XG Firewall 1st time

Question

Hi Good Day! 
 
 We are planning to get a firewall and sophos agree to have a trial of the firewall. we have now XG Firewall and I want to try to deploy it on our network. we are currently using juniper firewall. we are also using static ip address (172.17.9.0 and so on). any advice? thanks!

lferrara · Answer

Hi Regina, 
 You can test XG in 2 ways: 
 Bridge mode where the XG is installed as a bridge between your juniper and the switch; 
 Routing mode in parallel with juniper where only a test network is connected and filtered. 
 Before try it and make sure to understand how to implement nat, firewall rules and how to check logs. Use Sophos documentation Available on Sophos website. 
 Thanks

lferrara · Answer

Regina Ann Reyes said: 
 hi! thank you for your response. 
 
 which of the two option is easier? sorry, quite new in implementing firewall in network.

If you are quite new on Firewall, do not use even bridge mode, without testing XG on another network. First understand how to move on XG UI and command line and as I suggested, test inside a small test environment where if something goes wrong, you do not interrupt services. 
 Using the bridge mode is easier but test it before you move XG box to production! 
 Thanks

sachingurung · Answer

Hi Regina, 
 I believe you are trying the new appliance and want a POC before the purchase. 
 Please contact our Pre-Sales team they would help you in the deployment and configuration. This will be an online session with the Sophos sales partner and our engineers online for active deployment. 
 Thanks