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How to block TikTok using web categories (webcat) in Sophos XG Firewall

kimmo / 24/04/2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, it’s imperative to ensure that your network is shielded from harmful online threats. One effective measure is to implement a domain blocklist within your Sophos XG Firewall. This guide will walk you through the process of creating and managing a blocklist to keep your network secure. In this example we …

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Site-to-site tunnel between Ubiquiti Edgerouter X and Sophos XG firewall

kimmo / 10/08/2021

I recently purchased Edgerouter X to serve as a router and as a firewall for our network at our summer house. Previously I had Raspberry Pi acting as a endpoint for VPN tunnel but it only allowed me to access resources from home network to summer house. But not the other way around as Raspberry …

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Raspberry PI as VPN endpoint for Sophos XG Firewall

kimmo / 27/02/2021

I have been running Raspberry Pi device on my summer cabin as an MotionEye server for multiple security cameras. From time to time I need to make some changes to settings on these cameras but I do not want to open remove management over public internet or use provided cloud services. Instead I decided to …

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How to use Azure MFA With Sophos XG Firewall

kimmo / 15/03/2020

With version 18 Sophos brings changes to RADIUS settings on XG Firewall. We now have possibility to set timeout for authentication and this allows us to use Azure MFA for 2-factor authentication. Here is few simple steps how to enable this on network policy server and on XG Firewall. If you do not have MFA …

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How to use Azure MFA with Sophos UTM Firewall.

kimmo / 01/10/2018

Sophos UTM firewall can be configured to use Azure MFA for Two-Factor authentication. After installing MFA extension with the help of great guide from Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-mfa-nps-extension you only need to define couple of settings in UTM and enable policies in NPS server to get it working. Unfortunately I only were able to set it up using …

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