I manage the full-fat enterprise Sophos XG firewall. This home edition seems to have a lot of the same features, so ideal for home protection or to use as a training aid from a reputable security company.
Features Increase your Internet Bandwidth - You can make easy use of traffic shaping to prioritize application traffic over your internet connection and even subscribe to multiple ISP connections to get more bandwidth or resiliency in the event of an outage with one of them. Monitor and control family web surfing - Use Web Filtering to stop sites from infecting you with viruses and spyware, keep your children from surfing to bad sites, and get full reporting on the activity in your home. Also setup access schedules or usage quotas for family members who may be wasting too much time online. Access your home network from anywhere – Use VPN to access your network remotely from anywhere in the world. Stop Viruses - Dual AV scanning engines stop viruses in file downloads, email attachments, and embedded in web sites. Sophos catches them at the gateway, before they can get in to assault your computers. And a lot more...
All comments (17)
gabesdad
21 Jun 17#1
Made my old Dell laptop run like treacle. Dumped it within weeks, but it must work ok for some, so fair do's.
Predikuesi
21 Jun 17#2
Anyone attempting to install this needs to read this first:
NOTE: The Sophos XG Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner!
If that's what you want, then it's all good.
clarkeyi
21 Jun 17#3
Alternatively do what I do and install on a hypervisor such as Hyper-V or VMWare
mattuk
22 Jun 17#4
I personally feel the utm 9 is still better for home if you can handle only 50 ips protected by the gw. virtualized is a reasonable way to go if you can leave it on 247, or like me, find an supported embedded board running very low wattage and leave it powered 247 as a perm fw I will change to xg some point in the future once its feature set catches up with the utm.
mudisoft
22 Jun 17#5
please elaborate (with links)
r4w80
22 Jun 17#6
I agree, I use Sophos UTM for 3 years now and i have tried XG Home as well, I do prefer much more the UTM version. Link here: sophos.com/en/…spx I run it in a Vmware ESXi.
SUREFIRE247
23 Jun 17#7
I believe this Antivirus is Which magazine recommended.
aLV426
23 Jun 17#8
Heat, thanks for sharing OP!
After a catastrophic hardware failure I retired my hardware firewall - it's too loud to bother repairing and overkill for me now (Juniper SRX1400). I gave up caring and just rely on Windows 10 & Virgin Media, under 8 minutes completely re-installs my machines with all their apps anyway, I have only had 1 infection so far..
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Features
Increase your Internet Bandwidth - You can make easy use of traffic shaping to prioritize application traffic over your internet connection and even subscribe to multiple ISP connections to get more bandwidth or resiliency in the event of an outage with one of them.
Monitor and control family web surfing - Use Web Filtering to stop sites from infecting you with viruses and spyware, keep your children from surfing to bad sites, and get full reporting on the activity in your home. Also setup access schedules or usage quotas for family members who may be wasting too much time online.
Access your home network from anywhere – Use VPN to access your network remotely from anywhere in the world.
Stop Viruses - Dual AV scanning engines stop viruses in file downloads, email attachments, and embedded in web sites. Sophos catches them at the gateway, before they can get in to assault your computers.
And a lot more...
All comments (17)
NOTE: The Sophos XG Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner!
If that's what you want, then it's all good.
Link here: sophos.com/en/…spx
I run it in a Vmware ESXi.
After a catastrophic hardware failure I retired my hardware firewall - it's too loud to bother repairing and overkill for me now (Juniper SRX1400). I gave up caring and just rely on Windows 10 & Virgin Media, under 8 minutes completely re-installs my machines with all their apps anyway, I have only had 1 infection so far..