Sophos releases Firewall OS v19 with many benefits

Sophos has announced release of Sophos Firewall OS v19.

This Sophos Firewall OS v19 enables many benefits.

The most noticeable features include;

• Xstream SD-WAN utilizing the powerful performance of the Xstream Flow Processors in all XGS Series appliances to put IPsec traffic on the FastPath resulting in up to a 5x VPN performance improvement
• Performance-Based Link Selection ensures your most important traffic is routed over your best performing WAN connection, based upon latency, jitter, or packet loss
• Zero-Impact Transitions between WAN links ensures end-user applications are not impacted by ISP outages or disruption
• SD-WAN Orchestration in Sophos Central enables you to quickly and easily setup complex site-to-site VPN overlay networks with just a few clicks
• VPN Enhancements make it much easier and more intuitive to manage your site-to-site and remote-access VPN connections including a new AWS VPC import tool
• New Search Capabilities allow you to quickly find exactly what you’re looking for, both in the product, and in your networking objects when building rules