Sophos Utm Essential Firewall

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A while back we talked about how you can upgrade your network security with a Sophos UTM for free as a home user.

Sophos UTM Overview Choose your security applications Our Linux-based OS includes a free Essential Network Firewall. It provides fundamental security like firewalling. If setting up Sophos Client Firewall for the first time, refer to the Administrator roll-out guidelines for Sophos firewall for setup details. In general, once all approved applications have been allowed access through the firewall, computers should be set to Block by default mode, as this will stop all unauthorized traffic from accessing the.

Here we will explain the basic premise of firewalls and at the same time tell you how you can build one to suit your network.

The firewall is your gatekeeper, your first line of defense, shielding you from the outside world also known as the Internet. The firewall stops unsolicited traffic from the Internet from accessing your network and only allows responses to traffic originating from the inside back through.

You can also control what traffic is allowed from the inside, and only allow those services that you approve of to talk to the outside world.

How to set up your UTM firewall

Sophos Utm Essential Firewall

Sophos Utm Essential Firewall

To set up your UTM firewall, you need to define network addresses, basic firewall rules and NAT (Network Address Translation).

The great thing about Sophos UTM is that it will help you get things set up in no time. The built-in Basic System Setup will do all this for you.

You just need to tell it what your internal and external addresses should be and what services you want to use.

Once completed the necessary interface definitions, firewall rules and NAT, masquerading rules will have been created for you and network traffic can flow.

It’s that easy.

Sophos Utm Essential Firewall Installation

Learn more about firewalls and Sophos UTM

If firewalls intrigue you, you can read up more about how they work in this Naked Security blog post.

And if you’re looking to replace or upgrade your existing firewall, visit sophos.com/firewall to learn more about why you should choose Sophos.

Sophos Utm Essential Firewall Update

Plus, watch our video series about Sophos UTM to see it in action.