Sophos RED Modes

The Sophos RED can be operated in 3 different modes.

Standard/United

In this mode, all traffic is routed through the VPN tunnel to the central Sophos firewall via the Sophos RED. This mode is best used when all traffic is to be handled and analysed by the central UTM firewall.

Standard/Separated

This is the so-called split tunnel mode. You can define which traffic should be routed through the VPN tunnel and thus through the Sophos RED. This mode is usually used if the internet traffic from the branch office is to be routed directly to the internet and not via the central VPN.

UTM Firewall.

In this mode, you define which networks are to be routed via the Sophos RED VPN tunnel. At the same time, the network in front of the RED is also available. In our opinion, this mode is the most dangerous, as you no longer have any control over which devices are in the remote location.