Sophos XG Firewall Home Use (www.sophos.com)
from redfox@infosec.pub to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 21:30
https://infosec.pub/post/25860803

Public Service Announcement:

Have you checked out Sophos XG Firewall for home use lately?

It’s basically an enterprise firewall fully licensed for personal use.

I like it better than PF/Open Sense right now.

youtu.be/Ui8UC8-MeJU

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SirMaple__@lemmy.ca on 30 Mar 21:46 next collapse

Nope. I’ll stick with OPNsense which is open source.

redfox@infosec.pub on 02 Apr 13:17 collapse

I like OPN also. I’ve always appreciated the stability of the BSDs.

My only personal complaint with OPN/PF was the TLS inspection.

I’ve read about adding the modules to *Sense, but I haven’t figured out the configuration pieces.

It just works with Sophos UTM and XG firewall, and the configuration was super easy.

You always use what you like though.

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Apr 13:25 collapse

What do you use TLS inspection for?

Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world on 31 Mar 02:44 next collapse

Thank you for letting me know what software not to use; good bot

starkzarn@infosec.pub on 31 Mar 19:59 collapse

They place arbitrary limits on home users as well, which is a secondary reason to not use it compared to open source offerings. For instance:

  • you are limited to 1Gbps line speed
  • you are limited to one week of analytics, with no export option, so you can’t even ship them elsewhere
  • there are also resource limits that prevent ram and CPU utilization
redfox@infosec.pub on 02 Apr 13:09 collapse

This is true, the 6 GB RAM limit and four cores.

I run a pretty enterprise home lab, and I haven’t ever seen the devices hit the resource limit.

I have around 3k IPS rules and TLS inspection for most categories of sites except the normal stuff like streaming, banking, etc that you’d not want or need to inspect.

For anyone it might help, I use these as inline proxies rather than as the gateway at the moment. So they have more than just internet traffic going through them, they also have segments of my LANs getting evaluated. Performance has been great so far.