Anydesk Sophos Utm Jun 2026

The goal with Sophos UTM is to leverage its advanced firewall features to control this traffic without exposing your internal network to the wild internet.

Anydesk still blocked in application-filter - Sophos Community

If inbound is mandatory:

If you have a specific machine that requires direct access via AnyDesk and you have a Static WAN IP, you can use Sophos UTM’s DNAT (Destination NAT) features.

[External AnyDesk Client] ↓ (TCP 7070/443) [Internet] ↓ [Sophos UTM] → (Application Control, IPS, Web Filter) ↓ (NAT/Internal routing) [Internal AnyDesk Host]

Within AnyDesk settings, configure the security to "Allow only specific IDs." Input the AnyDesk IDs of authorized administrators or employees. This ensures that even if someone knows the password, their ID is rejected.