Security BriefSophos FirewallYour Security is Our Top Priority

As a Sophos Firewall customer, our top priority is your security. We’ve not only invested heavily in ensuring
your Sophos Firewall is the most secure firewall on the market, but we continuously work to make it themost difficult target for hackers, while helping keep your network and organization safe from future attacks
through proactive monitoring.

Secure by Design
1 | BEST PRACTICES BUILT-IN
Desired Outcome: Ensure the firewall’s security posture is optimally configured.
Solution: Sophos Firewall has security best-practices built-in and configured for out-of-the-box
deployment, while still making it easy to conduct your business and support remote workers. Youget strict and granular access controls, default firewall rules with powerful protection being applied
to all traffic, and integrated features such as ZTNA to protect your applications while allowing
secure remote access.

Recognized as the #1 firewall
solution by G2 Users

2 | HARDENED AGAINST ATTACK
Desired Outcome: Prevent attacks from targeting the firewall
Solution: Sophos Firewall is designed from the start with security in mind and is continually
being hardened against attacks with new technologies. Sophos Central management offers theultimate in secure remote management. Recent enhancements include improved multi-factor
authentication, containerization for the VPN portal and other trust boundaries, strict default
access controls, rapid hotfix support, and more, making Sophos Firewall a formidable opponent
for attackers.

Sophos has been a Gartner Peer
Insights Customers’ Choice

3 | AUTOMATED HOTFIX RESPONSE

for Network Firewalls for two

Desired Outcome: Minimize disruptions caused by patchingconsecutive years

Solution: In addition to important security fixes included in every firmware release, Sophos
Firewall integrates an innovative hotfix capability that enables us to push urgent and importantpatches out to your firewall “over the air” to address any new zero-day vulnerabilities or othercritical issues that arise between regular firmware updates. This enables a rapid fix to be applied
without requiring any downtime normally associated with a firmware upgrade.

“Easy to use, highly functional,
powerful firewall - great value”

4 | PROACTIVE MONITORING
Desired Outcome: A security vendor that’s proactive, transparent, and responsive
Solution: Sophos continually monitors our global install base of customer firewalls and rapidly
reacts to any incident. This allows us to identify incidents before our customers thanks totelemetry collection and analysis. You can rest assured that if a single customer anywhere in
the world has their firewall attacked, we’re working tirelessly to help shut the attack down andprevent it from happening elsewhere. Our mature vulnerability disclosure program ensures weare transparent and communicative with every security vulnerability or incident so you are as wellequipped as possible to protect your network. We also offer the most active and well funded bug
bounty program in the industry to get ahead of any potential issues before they can become aproblem.

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