| Please note Sophos is not yet supported in macOS Big Sur and the below steps might not work in all circumstances. These steps do not work on M1 / Apple Silicon Macs and will need to wait for an updated installer from Sophos. |
The solution is to 'check-mark' those additional Sophos components if they are un-checked, and reboot the Mac. What to do: 1 - Follow the Scenario 1 steps to access 'Security & Privacy - Full Disk Access', click on the padlock to be able to make changes 2- Manually 'tick' or 'check-mark' any Sophos component that is not check-marked. Sophos Endpoint and Apple macOS 11 Big Sur DarrenTeagles 5 months ago Our Endpoint Protection does not yet support macOS 11 (Big Sur). Please do not upgrade until we announce that we support it. On Premise (SEC): Sophos Anti-virus for MacOS version 9.10.2 has full support for Big Sur, and support for M1 processors via emulation (Rosetta 2). Roll-out of version 10.0.4 (Central) and 9.10.2 (SEC) is scheduled to start on Feb 23, 2021 and complete by March 4th, 2021. Applies to the following Sophos product(s) and version(s) Central Mac. Sophos Antivirus version 9.10.2 is now supported on macOS Big Sur. Please visit the Installing Sophos Anti-Virus (macOS) knowledge base article for details regarding additional prompts that must be authorized for the application to properly function.
Passview for mac. You may also need to grant full disk access.
Sophos Anti-virus requires approval of a System Extension by the end user before it's fully functional. On macOS 11 Big Sur, Sophos On-Access scanning will be disabled until you approve the Sophos System Extension.
After Sophos Anti-Virus installs you will see a prompt to open Security & Privacy in the System Preferences.
Go to the Apple Menu and select System Preferences->Security & Privacy
Click the lock icon in the bottom left if it is not already unlocked. You will be prompted to enter the password for an administrator account. Once unlocked, click the Allow button to allow software from Sophos. If the allow button doesn't show, follow the steps on approving kernel extensions.
You will be prompted to restart the computer. Please do so to enable the Sophos System Extension. After restarting the computer, you can open the Sophos preferences and see that On-Access scanning is now enabled.
Version 10.0.1
Important
You must review the information in knowledge base article KB-000039014 as it contains important information about this release.
Notes
The notification 'Full disk access required' that asks the user to grant Sophos processes full disk access may be re-triggered.
The threat detection engine version is 3.79.0.
Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-5389 | Resolved an issue with tabs opening slowly in Google Chrome. |
Version 10.0.0
Sophos Av Mac Big Sur
New Features
This release supports the EDR 3 capabilities in Sophos Central (to be rolled out for Macs by September). Live Discover allows admins to use osquery to search the device data across their estate to answer almost any question they can think of. Live Response allows admins to start an interactive session to a remote device.
This version supports macOS 10.13 and later.
Updated Components
The threat detection engine version is 3.79.0.
Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4232 | Improved battery life when performing on-demand scans. |
| MACEP-5178 | Resolved an issue when connecting devices lacking vendor, product or serial information. |
Version 9.9.8
Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4973 | Resolved blank captive portal. |
Version 9.9.6
This release contains performance improvements.
Resolved issues
Sophos For Mac Big Sur
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4600 | Improved memory usage when Threat Case creation is enabled. |
| MACEP-4602 | Resolved an issue with modified permissions on the man8 directory when using disk encryption. |
| MACEP-4493 | Resolved an intermittent failure where web pages may fail to load. |
| MACEP-4606 | Improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina when using MDM profiles. |
Sophos Central Big Sur
Version 9.9.5
Sophos Mac Os
New features
- This release contains improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
- This release contains stability improvements.
Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4456 | Users can now copy paths from the Events panel. |
Version 9.9.4
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.
Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4414 | Resolved an intermittent issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave where the Captive Network Assistant page could fail to load. |
| MACEP-4410 | Addressed CVE-2020-10947. |