Sophos works on a dedicated firewall. Think about how you have a router right? Traffic flows through it and then goes to your computer. Well a dedicated hardware firewall puts a physical device between the router and your computer (and the rest of the network) to block traffic based on certain patterns, or by rules like "what IP address is trying to access this specific part of our network". And since it's a dedicated piece of hardware and not software on a server you can't just shut it off without either hacking the firewall (logging into the IP internally with admin credentials and turning off protection) or, you know, disconnecting it from the network physically.
Sophos works on a dedicated firewall. Think about how you have a router right? Traffic flows through it and then goes to your computer. Well a dedicated hardware firewall puts a physical device between the router and your computer (and the rest of the network) to block traffic based on certain patterns, or by rules like "what IP address is trying to access this specific part of our network". And since it's a dedicated piece of hardware and not software on a server you can't just shut it off without either hacking the firewall (logging into the IP internally with admin credentials and turning off protection) or, you know, disconnecting it from the network physically.
My friend, we were already the news but with that explanation, we are now Wikipedia!