Overview of Sophos XGS: Features; Hardware- vs. Software appliance; Hardware Requirements; Installation and Initial setup; control centre; Reporting Service; Diagnose tools; Xstream-technology with Deep Packet Inspection
- Profile: Access times, access duration, surfing contingent, encryption profile, access profile
- Administration: Licences, central management of Sophos XG; basic configuration like Appliance access, time, notification and reports; connection to NetFlow; Backup and Recovery, REST-API; Update of Firmware and Pattern; network and routing; central management of Sophos Firewalls; Remote Ethernet Device (RED)
- Certification: Sophos XGS as CA; setting up a certification structure; connecting Sophos XG to the corporate structure
- Authentication: Connection of authentication servers like Active Directory or Radius account management; rights assignment in Sophos
- System services: High availability active/passive, active/active; traffic shaping, malware protection, data anonymising
- Firewall: Firewall rules (packet filter, NAT, SSL/TLS, Loopback and reflexive); Intrusion Prevention System; Web Proxy, Application Control, Sandstorm and Threat Intelligence
- VPN: IPsec and SSL VPN; Client to Site and Site to Site with Sophos XGS