This week, we’re updating Sophos Central firewall administration with a few necessary updates, together with a brand new account well being verify characteristic and enhanced scalability and efficiency for companions managing massive teams of consumers.
The brand new account well being verify functionality gives a framework that will probably be expanded over time to carry out quite a lot of useful assessments throughout your total property. We’re kicking off this new account well being verify functionality with a firewall backup evaluation.
Firewall Backup Well being Verify
This new evaluation will evaluate your firewalls beneath administration for backup standing and can:
- Determine all firewalls in your property that aren’t on a backup schedule
- Mechanically add a backup schedule for these firewalls not already on a schedule
This ensures all of your firewalls are backing up recurrently to Sophos Central so in the event you ever want a configuration backup for considered one of your gadgets, it’s only some clicks away.
You will discover a brand new widget for Firewalls beneath the Dashboards > Account Well being Verify space…
Scrolling down will present the brand new firewall backup evaluation outcomes, the place you’ll be able to select to disregard the outcomes, drill right down to see which firewalls are lacking backups, or repair all of them routinely and assign a backup schedule.
It’s best to see this new functionality in Sophos Central subsequent time you log in.
As talked about, we will probably be including extra well being verify assessments over time for licensing, firmware, and extra.
Scalability and efficiency enhancements for companions
Total efficiency and scalability have been improved for companions managing massive numbers of consumers. Administration ought to now be a lot simpler for these companions managing 1000’s of firewall prospects because of back-end optimizations and UI enhancements.
