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Whats new in Sophos SFOS v19.5 Firewall OS

Posted by undefined Saif Khan on 2022 Nov 7th

Sophos has introduced SFOS v19.5 which is soon to be GA.

This new Sophos Firewall OS version bring many enhancements.

Here are a some exciting highlights;


1) LAG availability for High Availability HA:

This feature allows the use of LAG (multiple links aggregation) for HA link. This is great enhancement since it enable more 1 links to used for HA link and therefore eliminates single point of failure due to single HA link failure.

2) SD-WAN

SD-WAN enhancements have been introduced  which include the following;

a. Optimized WAN link selection based on jitter and availability

b. Application traffic prioritization