Mac Big Sur Sophos



  • Just upgraded to Mac OS Big Sur last night and Sophos Home (Premium) seems to be having issues. Specifically, the Sophos Home icon remains red with a message that Security & Private settings need to be updated. I've looked at the instructions here on the Sophos website, but nothing addresses this issue.
  • For a new installation of Sophos on a Mac, Sophos needs to be allowed in the General tab of the Security & Privacy window. If Sophos needs to be re-installed on the same Mac, the process of allowing Sophos no longer needs to be repeated since the same allow process will be retained by the operating system.
  1. Mac Big Sur Sophos Antivirus
  2. Sophos Big Sur Time Machine

Version 9.10.2

Apr 07, 2021 On Premise (SEC): Sophos Anti-virus for MacOS version 9.10.2 and above have full support for Big Sur, and support for M1 processors via emulation (Rosetta 2). Applies to the following Sophos product (s) and version (s).

New features

Support for macOS 11 Big Sur.

Updated components

The threat detection engine is 3.80.1

Mac Big Sur Sophos Antivirus

Resolved issues

Security improvements.

Version 9.10.1

New features

This release contains early access to a version of the endpoint software that supports macOS 11 Big Sur.

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.80.1.

Version 9.10.0

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.79.0

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-5389Resolved an issue with tabs opening slowly in Google Chrome.

Version 9.9.8

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4973Resolved blank captive portal.

Version 9.9.7

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4657Improved device control support for large capacity removable storage devices to ensure that they are blocked after restart.
Mac

Version 9.9.6

This release contains performance improvements.

Mac Big Sur Sophos

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4493Resolved an intermittent issue where web pages may fail to load.
MACEP-4600Improved memory usage when Threat Case creation is enabled.
MACEP-4602Resolved an issue with modified permissions on the man8 directory when using disk encryption.
MACEP-4606Improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina when using MDM profiles.

Version 9.9.5

New features

  • This release contains improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Version 9.9.4 Updated

New features

  • This release contains support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
  • This release contains security and performance improvements.

Updated components

The threat detection engine version is 3.77.1. For information about the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Sophos Big Sur Time Machine

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4414Resolved an intermittent issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave where the Captive Network Assistant page could fail to load.
MACEP-4410Addressed CVE-2020-10947.

Version 9.8.5

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4314Resolved an issue in which Sophos Anti-Virus may incorrectly report successful updates as failures.

Version 9.8.4

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.76.0. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3604Resolved an issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave that prevented some customers from connecting to Wi-Fi networks that require a captive portal.

Version 9.8.2

Updated components

Big

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.75.0. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Resolved issues

Sur
Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3668Resolved a rare kernel panic that can be caused when reading extended file attributes on APFS.
MACEP-3722Installer now provides links to online EULA and Privacy Policy.

Version 9.7.7

This release contains compatibility improvements.

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.74.0.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3454Resolved an issue where some systems may hang on boot with certain USB-C devices.