This week, we’re updating Sophos Central firewall administration with a few vital updates, together with a brand new account well being verify function and enhanced scalability and efficiency for companions managing massive teams of shoppers.
The brand new account well being verify functionality supplies a framework that can be expanded over time to carry out a wide range 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 evaluation your firewalls below administration for backup standing and can:
- Establish 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 case you ever want a configuration backup for considered one of your units, it’s only some clicks away.
You will see a brand new widget for Firewalls below the Dashboards > Account Well being Verify space…
Scrolling down will present the brand new firewall backup evaluation outcomes, the place you may select to disregard the outcomes, drill right down to see which firewalls are lacking backups, or repair all of them robotically 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 can be including extra well being verify assessments over time for licensing, firmware, and extra.
Scalability and efficiency enhancements for companions
General efficiency and scalability have been improved for companions managing massive numbers of shoppers. Administration ought to now be a lot simpler for these companions managing 1000’s of firewall prospects due to back-end optimizations and UI enhancements.
