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Our free migration tools remove a lot of the manual effort required to convert settings and will make the transition to XG Firewall, Intercept X, and Sophos Central a great experience for your customers.

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You can deploy an XG Firewall ISO image on a macOS server. You can deploy the XG Firewall virtual appliance in a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi environment. You can deploy the XG Firewall virtual appliance on Citrix XenApp platform. Activating and registering XG Firewall. You can activate XG Firewall and register it. Use a FTP Client, such as FileZilla, to upload the Sophos XG ISO to your ProfitBricks account using your DCD login credentials. Upload the ISO into the 'iso-images' folder. Once the internal processing of the image is finished you will receive an email. Alternatively, if you want a free trial of the Sophos Firewall products then follow the link to sign up for a Sophos Firewall, Sophos Firewall Manager or Sophos iView free trial. Complete unified threat management for your network. Existing customers may download the full ISO below for installation support.

Additionally, you can manage your XG Firewall devices centrally through Sophos Central. VPN A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a tunnel that carries private network traffic from one endpoint to another over a public network such as the internet. Failed getting ISO disk press y to reboot. Than I tried the DD mode in Rufus. Just load the ISO file from Sophos Portal and load it into Rufus. Plugin your USB stick and click on the small CD-ROM icon, choose the ISO file and click start. You will get a message where you can choose ISO or DD Image mode. Choose DD mode in this case.

XG Firewall

XG Firewall gives you world-class protection and performance that is easy to set up and manage. It stops the latest threats like ransomware, hackers, and bots. Your customers get unmatched visibility into top risks like hidden apps running on your network, and automatic response to isolate compromised systems when there is a threat.

Helping you migrate

We currently have three migration tools available to move your customers to XG Firewall quickly and easily. Follow the links and learn more about:

We’re also offering free support from our pre-sales help desk when migrating customers to XG Firewall. Learn more and get in touch with the team.

If you’re planning to migrate Sophos Web Appliance to Sophos XG Firewall, check out this partner portal page for tips and migration paths.

Helping you sell

We have numerous assets proofing the strengths of XG Firewall. Take a look at our XG Firewall resources to find an armory of sales assets. The co-brandable HTML emails on the topic of SSL inspection help you generate new business. You’ll be able to talk about encrypted network traffic, the hidden weakness of most next-gen firewalls, and explain that it doesn’t have to impact performance.

Sophos vs. Firewall Competition

We have created great overview pages to help you switch your customers to Sophos. They show how we stack up against specific firewall competitors (WatchGuard, SonicWall, Fortinet). We’ve also created generic competitive pages for all the other vendors as well as a page targeted to managed service providers (MSP).

Intercept X

Switching your customers to Sophos Intercept X next-gen endpoint protection is simple and profitable – delivering the world’s best anti-ransomware protection and exploit prevention.

Helping you migrate

It’s a child’s play to upgrade customers from – let’s say Symantec – to Intercept X. It won’t even take 30 seconds! Watch this short video on how to do it.

Helping you sell

It’s a great time to help your customers make the switch to the better protection that Intercept X provides. To make this even easier, we’ve packaged a range of sales and marketing assets for you to use. Don’t miss the co-brandable HTML emails available to generate new next-gen endpoint business and to replace Symantec. And don’t be shy if customers don’t want to take our word for it – numerous independent analysts offer proof.

Sophos vs. Endpoint Competition

Our newly created overview pages show how we stack up against specific endpoint offerings (Symantec, CrowdStrike, McAfee, Kaspersky, Webroot). They’re designed to help you switch customers over to Sophos from their current products. Plus, we’ve built generic competitive pages for all the other vendors and an additional page targeting managed service providers (MSP).

Sophos Central Endpoint

There are huge benefits to moving from Sophos Enterprise Console (SEC) managed protection to Intercept X in Sophos Central. Your customers get much better protection against the latest, never-seen-before threats. Cloud management makes it easy to set up, check on, and manage protection. And they don’t need to maintain on-premises servers.

Helping you migrate

Get assistance moving management of protected computers from Sophos Enterprise Console to Sophos Central.

Helping you sell

Our one-page deskaid helps you formulate a convincing value proposition when you talk to customers. It’s s cheat sheet that summarizes the massive benefits for your customers: best protection, cloud native management, and security that grows with their needs. Plus, it reviews the key differences of Sophos Enterprise Console versus Intercept X and a comparison with the three most common competitors. Get the deskaid.

Share these assets with your customers:

• Web page: Sophos.com/upgrade
• Why Traditional Antivirus Needs Help: Video (02:45 minutes) / PDF Whitepaper
• Why Switch to Intercept X: Video (02:06 minutes) / PDF Whitepaper

Sophos Central Mobile

Mobile devices contain corporate data like any other corporate device. Configure them securely, track those assets, and provide threat protection to keep your data safe and secure. Get a holistic, single pane of glass view across all your corporate devices in Sophos Central, regardless of whether the devices are PC-based or mobile, to better track their health to avoid threats, data breaches, and compliance fines.

Helping you migrate

The Sophos Mobile 9.6 release includes a migration wizard that enables migration of devices from Sophos Mobile on-premises servers or SaaS hosted to Sophos Mobile in Sophos Central in a seamless way. Learn more

• Migration of all settings, apps, and documents
• Migration of enrolled devices without re-enrollment
• The migration is supported by an intuitive migration wizard

Sophos will run webinars in the various regions to demo the migration wizard, explain the details, and answer any upcoming question to get customers and partners enabled for the migration.

Remember, on-premise Sophos Mobile reaches end of life in July 2023, and Mobile as a Service turns end of life in September 2021. Now is a great time to open a conversation with customers about their plans for moving to Central.

Helping you sell

Use our messaging guide and overview Powerpoint deck to promote Intercept X for Mobile to your customers. You can access assets on our partner portal.

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Please note: Some links above require access to the Sophos Partner Portal which is available for Sophos partners only. If you are a registered partner and have trouble logging in, please contact our Partner Care support team by opening a case on support.sophos.com.