Sophos Firewall
for Education
Purpose-built for education.
Sophos Firewall is optimized for education, delivering unmatched visibility
and insight, the ultimate in security and control, and unique threat response
capabilities. It offers a powerful set of capabilities to help you monitor what’s
happening on your network, manage your firewall, and respond to threats.

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Purpose-built for Education
Sophos Firewall delivers a feature set that’s purpose-built to help education
institutions overcome the challenges they face.
Powerful Web Filtering Policy
Sophos Firewall uses a powerful but intuitive web policy
model that you would normally only find in dedicatedenterprise web filtering products costing many times more.
It makes managing multiple user- and group-based custom
policies a breeze. You also have full control over SafeSearch,
YouTube, and file downloads as part of every policy.

Child Safety and Compliance
Compliance mandates like the Children’s Information
Protection Act (CIPA) in the U.S., the Safeguarding andPrevent Duty guidelines in the U.K., and similar initiatives inmany other jurisdictions are designed to keep young userssafe online. While very well-intentioned, they can pose asignificant challenge for many organizations. Fortunately,Sophos Firewall provides built-in features and policy
settings that help organizations get compliant quickly
and easily. It includes pre-defined activities including“Not Suitable for Schools” as well as features such as
SafeSearch, YouTube restrictions, and Keyword Filtering toenable child safety online.

Context-aware Keyword FilteringWith Sophos Firewall we can help you identify potentiallyproblematic behavior early on. The firewall can log, monitor,and even enforce policies related to keyword lists related
to bullying, radicalization, or self-harm (for example). You
can schedule reports to identify users at risk and get details
about their activities, including what and where they are
posting or what sites they are visiting.

Insights Into Top Risk Users
Our unique User Threat Quotient (UTQ) provides actionableinsight into user behavior. The firewall correlates each user’s
surfing habits and activity with advanced threat triggers
and history to identify users with risky online behavior. It
enables you to immediately take action to address students
engaged in behaviors that put themselves or your networkat risk. Set up reports to automatically send to teachers or1

safeguarding officers, keeping them in the loop about atrisk students.

Top-Rated Protection from Threats
Sophos Firewall contains all the latest threat protection
technologies you need to stop hacks and attacks dead in
their tracks. Sandstorm Sandboxing scans all files comingin through the web or email for malicious behavior in a safe
environment, using the latest deep learning technology
from our Intercept X next-gen endpoint product. Our
top-rated intrusion prevention system (IPS) catches any
hacker or attack attempting to exploit a vulnerability
across the network. And our web protection solution
performs JavaScript emulation to catch threats lurking incompromised websites such as cryptojacking.

Chromebook Support
Sophos Firewall supports more authentication methods
than most other firewalls including directory services,client-based, clientless, and of course Chromebooks withan easy-to-deploy agent that enables full user-based policy
and reporting for all your Chromebook users.

Synchronized Security
Sophos Firewall integrates with Sophos Intercept X toprovide the ultimate protection solution at both the networkand endpoint while enabling unique Synchronized Securityfeatures. Sophos Security Heartbeat™ shares health status
in real time between all your Sophos-managed endpoints
and the firewall, enabling your firewall to isolate any
compromised or infected system automatically until it
can be cleaned, preventing threats from spreading. It alsoenables rich insight into all applications on your networkthat are currently going unidentified because of encryption
or evasive behavior. These added visibility, protection,and response benefits are only possible with Sophos
Synchronized Security.

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Powerful. Simple. Affordable.
Sophos Firewall provides all the visibility, security, and controls that education
institutions need while making everyday management and reporting easy in asupremely affordable package.
Xstream Architecture

Incredible Value, Eminently Affordable

Sophos Firewall brings a fresh approach to the way
you identify hidden risks, protect against threats, andrespond to incidents without taking a performance hit. Our
Xstream Architecture utilizes a unique packet processing
architecture that delivers extreme levels of visibility,protection, and performance.

We’ve engineered Sophos Firewall to deliver outstanding
performance and security efficiency for the best return on
your investment. Our firewall is consistently rated among
the top performers in independent tests by industry
analysts, and no other firewall includes more in a single
appliance than it.

Ultimate Security and Control

Management and Reporting Made Simple

Sophos Firewall provides all the advanced technology you
need to protect your network from the latest ransomware
and advanced threats. You also get the most powerful
web filtering policy enforcement and protection available,
and we’ve made everything extremely easy to set up andmanage locally or in the cloud.

Sophos Firewall makes managing and reporting on yournetwork easy. With Sophos Central Firewall Management
you can manage one or more Sophos Firewalls from any
location. It all starts with a clean, informative dashboard
and traffic light-style indicators that immediately indicate
what needs your attention the most when you log in.
Sophos Central Firewall Reporting provides the tools andflexibility to create custom reports that offer instant insight
into the applications, risks, trends, and more impacting yournetwork. It’s all available in the cloud at no extra charge.
And our web filtering policy is second to none in providing a
powerful yet intuitive set of tools for managing complianceon your network. Educators can even help with the
day-to-day management of web policy exceptions fortheir classroom curriculum.

Unique Threat Response
Sophos Firewall is the only network security solution thatis able to fully identify the source of an infection on yournetwork and automatically limit access to other network
resources in response. This is made possible with ourunique Security Heartbeat which shares telemetry andhealth status between Sophos-managed endpoints andfirewalls.

Connect and Save with SD-WAN
Connecting schools in your district can be a costly
endeavor. That’s why we’ve integrated software-definedwide area networking, or SD-WAN, into our firewalls. Using
SD-WAN, you can connect every school and headquarters
in your district for a lot less than the price of MPLS (multiprotocol label switching). Securely transmit sensitive
student and staff information between sites. Keep pacewith changing educational technologies and applications
on the network. And achieve consistent performanceand availability for cloud applications such as Dropbox
Education, G Suite, ClassDojo and others in classrooms andadministrative offices wherever they’re located.

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How to Buy
Choose just the protection you need:

Network Protection

Zero-Day Protection

Web Protection

Top-rated intrusion prevention,
deep learning, and advanced threatprotection technologies to stop thelatest threats dead in their tracks.

Advanced deep learning static fileanalysis plus dynamic sandboxing
to identify threats and provide
full threat intelligence.

Powerful web filtering and protection
with keyword content filtering,
SafeSearch and YouTube controls, plus
application identification and control.

Central Orchestration

Email Protection

Web Server Protection

Makes setting up SD-WAN site-tosite VPN for groups of firewalls asimple point and click exercise andextends your Central Reporting.

Full SMTP and POP message protection
from spam, phishing, and data loss
with our unique all-in-one protectionthat combines policy-based email
encryption with DLP and anti-spam.

Harden any file or web servers againsthacking attempts while providing
secure access to external users
with reverse proxy authentication.

Sophos Firewall Licensing Options
We recommend the Xstream Protection bundle for the ultimate in security, but if you prefer to customize your protection, all
subscriptions are also available for individual purchase.
Xstream Protection Bundle:
Base License

Networking, Wireless, Xstream Architecture, Unlimited Remote Access VPN, Site-to-Site VPN, reporting

Network Protection

Xstream TLS and DPI engine, IPS, ATP, Security Heartbeat™, SD-RED VPN, reporting

Web Protection

Xstream TLS and DPI engine, Web Security and Control, Application Control, reporting

Zero-Day Protection

Machine Learning and Sandboxing File Analysis, reporting

Central Orchestration

SD-WAN VPN orchestration, Central Firewall Reporting Advanced (30-days), MTR/XDR-ready

Enhanced Support

24/7 support, feature updates, advanced replacement hardware warranty for term

For details on additional licensing options, visit here.

Free 30-day trial – no strings attached
If you’d like to take a Sophos Firewall for a test drive, you can get thefull-featured product. Simply sign up for our free 30-day trial.

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