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Sophos XGS 118 vs Fortinet, Meraki and Palo Alto A like-for-like look at the Sophos XGS 118 against the FortiGate 60F, Cisco Meraki MX67/68 and Palo Alto PA-415. The XGS 118 publishes 15.5 Gbps firewa … read more

Sophos XGS 118 buying guide: what it is, what it costs, and how to buy The Sophos XGS 118 is a compact desktop next-generation firewall for small offices and branch sites, with 15.5 Gbps firewall thro … read more

Where does a firewall actually stop an attack? A firewall can act on six of the seven attack chain stages, and the differences between vendors concentrate in two: delivery and lateral movement. A cybe … read more

The Sophos XGS 138 makes a deliberate trade. It drops the built-in Wi-Fi of its smaller siblings and spends that room on more ports, including SFP+, plus the highest inspected throughput in the deskto … read more

How a business moves large files at 10 Gbps A single 4K video project, a large CAD assembly, or a nightly server backup can run into hundreds of gigabytes. When that traffic crawls, people sit waiting … read more

Sophos XGS 138 buying guide: what it is, what it costs, and how to buy The Sophos XGS 138 is the top of the Sophos desktop range, and the only desktop model with two SFP+ fibre ports that run at 10 Gi … read more

Which Sophos XGS models are end of life, and what replaces them? All Sophos XGS Gen 1 desktop appliances are end of sale: the XGS 87, 107, 116, 126, and 136, including every w (wireless) variant. They … read more

When a small office grows past the entry firewalls, the questions change. It is less about whether the box can keep up and more about headroom, more users behind it, more encrypted traffic to inspect, … read more