This week, we’re updating Sophos Central firewall administration with a few essential updates, together with a brand new account well being test function and enhanced scalability and efficiency for companions managing massive teams of consumers.
The brand new account well being test functionality gives a framework that will likely 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 test functionality with a firewall backup evaluation.
Firewall Backup Well being Test
This new evaluation will evaluation your firewalls beneath 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 often to Sophos Central so in case you ever want a configuration backup for one in all your units, it’s just a few clicks away.
You will see a brand new widget for Firewalls beneath the Dashboards > Account Well being Test space…
Scrolling down will present the brand new firewall backup evaluation outcomes, the place you possibly can select to disregard the outcomes, drill all the way down to see which firewalls are lacking backups, or repair all of them robotically and assign a backup schedule.
You must see this new functionality in Sophos Central subsequent time you log in.
As talked about, we will likely be including extra well being test 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 consumers. Administration ought to now be a lot simpler for these companions managing hundreds of firewall clients due to back-end optimizations and UI enhancements.
