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As Michel reported on networkguy.de, the HTTP proxy of the UTM has been crashing at irregular intervals since today. A corresponding mail lands in the inbox: Http proxy not running - restarted The problem is due to a faulty pattern update for the UTM which was rolled out by Sophos. In the meantime, a corrected pattern has been published (u2d-appctrl43-9.42). Here is the corresponding ... Read more
I'm currently working on my private PRTG installation and stumbled across the PRTG IPFIX sensor by chance. IPFIX is a further development of Cisco Netflow and is also used to collect and visualize traffic data within a network. Since the Sophos UTM also supports IPFIX, PRTG can use the IPFIX data ... Read more
In the last article, I had already announced that I would also like to use PRTG to monitor the web server protection of the Sophos UTM. Unfortunately, PRTG only offers generic sensors for the UTM, which makes monitoring a little more difficult. I've made some progress with the Sophos RESTful API, but unfortunately RESTful ... Read more
Sophos has today released an update with the version number 9.502-4 for the Sophos UTM. The update is intended to fix a total of 39 problems. Unfortunately, Sophos has not been so lucky with updates for the UTM in the past, so the last update fixed some problems, but also caused new ones. Unfortunately, this makes extensive testing ... Read more
Sophos has released an update for Sophos UTM 9.5, which fixes quite a few bugs. The update has the version number 9.501-5 and is just under 221 MB in size. If you are not yet offered the update via the Up2Date service, you can also download it directly here: http://ftp.astaro.de/UTM/v9/up2date/ At the bottom of the page you will find the update from ... Read more
I wanted to put a new UniFi AccessPoint from Ubiquiti into operation today. My existing AccessPoints are in the same subnet (and VLAN) as the UniFi Controller, so so far there have been no problems connecting the AccessPoints to the Controller. However, the new AccessPoint should now be in a different subnet and VLAN. So that ... Read more
Sophos has recently released the update to version 9.5 for the UTM. One of the new features of UTM 9.5 is the ability to set the TLS version for the web application firewall. However, this is still not enough to achieve an A+ rating in the SSL Server Test by Qualys SSL Labs. Although an A rating is not necessarily ... Read more
Sophos UTM version 9.5 has been available since yesterday morning. All those who, like me, have not yet been offered the update via Up2Date can download it here (301 MB): http://ftp.astaro.de/UTM/v9/up2date/ The update can then be uploaded manually via the GUI and thus the UTM can be updated: Since there have been problems in the past with ... Read more
Sophos already released an update for Sophos UTM on 27.04.17, which fixes certificate warnings in connection with Chrome 58 and activated HTTPS scanning. I have not yet been offered the update via Up2Date, so here is a small note. The update to version 9.413-4 can be downloaded here and installed manually: http://ftp.astaro.de/UTM/v9/up2date/ The update addresses ... Read more
Although the official update to version 9.5 is not yet available, Sophos has released a mini update today. The update raises the version of UTM 9 to 9.412-2: The update contains the following bug fixes: Fix [NUTM-7483]: [Basesystem] Optimize LPC usage Fix [NUTM-7564]: [SUM] RED Link state is shown wrong in Gateway Manager ... Read more
