We’re excited to start out the early entry program (EAP) for Sophos DNS Safety for networks. This new cloud-based service is a part of our rising suite of Safe Entry Service Edge services, increasing upon what we began with Sophos ZTNA and Sophos SD-WAN Orchestration.
Enhanced web and net safety
Sophos DNS Safety provides one other layer of safety to each community. It really works to immediately block entry to unsafe and undesirable domains throughout all ports, protocols, and functions on the earliest alternative – from each managed and unmanaged units.
DNS Safety completely enhances and augments your present community safety and coverage enforcement instruments – from Sophos or another vendor. DNS Safety might be deployed in a couple of minutes: it’s by no means been simpler to roll out extra safety to your group.
Sophos DNS Safety is a globally accessible area title decision service with built-in coverage controls and reporting in Sophos Central. It’s backed by SophosLabs’ real-time menace intelligence, defending your group from malicious area exercise and permitting you to enact coverage for area classes or area lists.
By utilizing Sophos DNS Safety instead of your present public DNS resolver, you may forestall any units in your community from accessing domains related to safety threats and different undesirable web sites managed by way of coverage.
DNS Safety enhances the safety offered by the opposite safety features of Sophos Firewall. Deploying it on a community protected by Sophos Firewall supplies an extra layer of safety that ensures all protocols and ports are protected in opposition to accessing dangerous or inappropriate domains.
Built-in reporting
Sophos DNS Safety supplies in-depth visibility into the domains visited out of your community, with complete dashboarding and reporting.
Safety for networks
On this preliminary launch, coverage choice and entry to the DNS Resolver are primarily based on the originating public IPv4 tackle of the DNS queries. Therefore, defending particular person units that transfer from community to community (or web site to web site) is inappropriate. Dynamic IP addresses are supported when used with a dynamic DNS supplier.
As we develop our Safety Service Edge companies, we plan to combine with the endpoint, offering DNS safety and different network-oriented safety companies for roaming units, wherever they’re.
Cross-product integration
As well as, Sophos DNS Safety’s log information and intelligence are shared with Sophos Information Lake for Sophos XDR and MDR threat-hunting analysts to assist detect energetic adversaries and threats working on the community. Please search for extra updates on the XDR integration because the EAP progresses.
Included at no additional cost for Sophos Firewall clients with Xstream Safety
The preliminary launch of DNS Safety is being added to our Xstream Safety bundle, offering extra worth to this already superb suite of safety options for our present Sophos Firewall clients.
Getting began
Getting began with Sophos DNS Safety is simple. Replace your present DNS configuration by pointing your units or native DNS servers to our world anycast IP addresses, inform us about your areas in your Sophos Central account by getting into your networks’ public IPv4 tackle(es), after which present your suggestions.
To get began, full this registration kind. When you’ve completed that, we’ll e-mail you with our Getting Began information and all the knowledge you must rise up and working.
After that, please drop by the Group Discussion board to share your expertise with different members or inform us about your experiences by way of the in-product suggestions hyperlink.
*Please observe that the preliminary factors of presence for the EAP service are in North America, Europe, and India. Individuals in different geographies might not expertise the perfect question latency. Please monitor your community expertise in case you are outdoors these areas. We are going to develop protection for extra areas sooner or later.
*Early entry is anticipated to run by way of January 2024, so get began right now and assist us make this service the perfect it may be.
