Sophos Central Enterprise



  1. Sophos Enterprise Guard
  2. Sophos Central Enterprise Dashboard: How To Enable Sophos Central Enterprise Dashboard
  3. Sophos Central Enterprise Dashboard: Global Policies
  4. Sophos Mobile Security For IOS: Features Overview

When you turn on Enterprise Management from a Sophos Central Admin account, any other accounts associated with your customer account are linked to your Sophos Central Enterprise account as sub-estates.

Sophos stops everything malicious and provides us with alerts, so we can respond quickly—and that’s worth its weight in gold.” Cliff Hogan, CIO, D4C Dental Brands Switching to Sophos Central was a simple transition and 80% of the work was carried out within just one week.”.

To allow access the sub-estate's Sophos Central Admin administrator must:

  • To allow access the sub-estate's Sophos Central Admin administrator must: In Sophos Central Admin, click Account Details Account Preferences. This shows that Enterprise Management has been turned on for the organization and also shows the enterprise administrator's details. Switch on enterprise admin access to the Sophos Central Admin account.
  • Sophos Central allows you to manage our award-winning Synchronized Security platform. Advanced attacks are more coordinated than ever before. Now, your defenses are too. Our revolutionary Security Heartbeat™ ensures your endpoint protection and firewall are talking to each other.
  • Sophos Central differs from Sophos Enterprise Console (on-premise management) in three ways. Management in the cloud The Sophos Central console is hosted in the cloud by Sophos.
  • Sophos Central allows you to manage our award-winning Synchronized Security network platform. Advanced attacks are more coordinated than ever before. Now, your defenses are too. Our revolutionary Security Heartbeat™ ensures your endpoint protection and firewall are talking to each other.
  1. In Sophos Central Admin, click Account Details > Account Preferences.

    This shows that Enterprise Management has been turned on for the organization and also shows the enterprise administrator's details.

  2. Switch on enterprise admin access to the Sophos Central Admin account.

The Sub-Estates page lists your sub-estates and provides an at-a-glance view of the number of licenses they are using in each of the available categories and the status of those licenses.

You can also:

  • Create new sub-estates.
  • Unlink sub-estates.
  • Delete sub-estates.
  • Check which sub-estates have allowed the enterprise admins to access and manage their Sophos Central Admin account.
    Restriction The sub-estate's Sophos Central Admin administrator has to allow the enterprise admins to access their account. The administrator must have the SuperAdmin role to do this. Only an Enterprise Super Admin can turn off the opt-in once it is enabled.

Search

To search for a sub-estate, enter the sub-estate's name or the beginning of the sub-estate's name. To display all the records again, clear the search field.

New Sub-Estate

You can create new sub-estates that allow enterprise admin access automatically.

To create a new sub-estate:

  1. Click New Sub-Estate.
  2. Enter the administrator details for the new sub-estate.
  3. Select a Data storage region. Choose from Germany, Ireland, and United States.

    The default region for a sub-estate is the region of the primary sub-estate. The primary sub-estate is the Sophos Central Admin account where Enterprise Management was originally turned on.

  4. Read and accept the privacy policy and license agreement.
  5. Click Create Sub-Estate.

    The new sub-estate is shown in the list. The administrator is sent an email with setup instructions.

  6. Purchase a license for the sub-estate. Once you have done this, you can manage the sub-estate in Sophos Central Enterprise.

Start Sophos Central Admin

If the sub-estate has allowed enterprise admin access, you can open the sub-estate's Sophos Central Admin account.

If the sub-estate hasn't allowed access, you can't see this option.

Select the sub-estate and click Launch Sophos Central Admin.

License Details

You can view the license information associated with a sub-estate. To do this, select the sub-estate and click License Details.

License information

The licenses used by each sub-estate are listed under the license name. Click a license name to review information about the product associated with the license.

Sub-estate name

To change a sub-estate's name, do one of the following:

    1. Click the sub-estate's name to show Contact Info.
    2. Click Edit.
    3. Change the name and click Save.
    1. Select the sub-estate and click License Details.
    2. Click Edit.
    3. Change the name and click Save.

Data storage location

To find out where a sub-estate's data is stored, do one of the following:

  • Click the sub-estate's name to show Contact Info.
  • Select the sub-estate and click License Details.
Central

The location is shown next to Data storage location.

For more information about Sophos Central, contact us!

What is Sophos Central?

Sophos Central is the unified console for managing your Sophos products Sophos Central gives you one place to manage your endpoint, mobile, encryption, web, email, server, and wireless security. Using a synchronized security management platform, you’ll benefit from security intelligence sharing, policies that follow users, easy configuration, detailed and summary reporting, and automatically prioritized alerts.

Highlights

Sophos Enterprise Guard

  • Automatically prioritized alerts
  • Summary dashboard for your environment
  • Granular, per-user policy management
  • Security Heartbeat contextual intelligence sharing
  • Automatic Active Directory synchronization
  • Simple migration tool for Sophos Enterprise Console admins

Sophos Central Enterprise Dashboard: How To Enable Sophos Central Enterprise Dashboard

Easy and efficient central management

Sophos Central helps you manage security policies and administer multiple products from a single web interface. No management servers to deploy or install, your endpoints, servers, appliances, and devices will check in directly with Sophos Central to receive new settings, send alerts, and share contextual security intelligence.

Getting started is easy

Managing your security from Sophos Central means you no longer have to install or deploy servers just to get started. Sophos Central provides default policies and recommended configurations to ensure you get the most effective protection from day one.

Synchronized Security

The Sophos Security Heartbeat lets your Sophos products share real-time security intelligence. Sophos Central synchronizes that intelligence across your security products, creating more effective protection against advanced malware and targeted attacks. To take advantage of Sophos Security Heartbeat today, you need Sophos Endpoint Protection and a Next-Gen Firewall powered by Sophos Firewall OS.

Partner support

Your Sophos Support Partner also uses Sophos Central to manage their business, meaning you can grant them access to your configuration if needed. Want someone to check out your firewall configuration? No problem, your Sophos Support Partner can assist.

Empower end users with the Self-Service Portal

Using Sophos Email? Our self-service user portal lets users access and manage their email quarantine, allowing them to release messages inadvertently marked as spam. They can also create and manage email-sender allow/block lists to manage their own security.

Manage your IT security on the go

Simplify your life with a single pane-of-glass for all your security. Sophos Central is accessed via a web browser from your desktop or mobile. Built using adaptive design, the layout automatically optimizes for your screen size. We’ve optimized all the workflow routines, not only making them intuitive, but also streamlining the experience, keeping you on top of security wherever you are.

Migrate from Sophos Enterprise Console

Already using Sophos Enterprise Console to manage your endpoint and server security? You can migrate to Sophos Central using our handy migration tool. Your partner can advise you if a license switch is needed.

Technical Specifications

All you need is an updated web browser and an internet connection.

  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
  • Mozilla Firefox

Sophos Central Enterprise Dashboard: Global Policies

Sophos Central Managed Products

Endpoint AgentServicePhysical Device
Endpoint Protection*-Endpoint Protection users with Sophos Enterprise Console on-premises management can migrate to Sophos Central management using the migration tool
Mobile--
Device Encryption--
Server Protection--
Web Gateway--
Email---
Wireless--
XG Firewall-Support partner management via Sophos Central

Sophos Mobile Security For IOS: Features Overview

* Formerly known as Sophos Cloud Endpoint