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Release notes for the December 29, 2024 update

Update Version 4.1.202412271637

New Features

Added the option to mass execute script on several selected assets.

The option automates script execution on multiple endpoints. The option is available for the assets list as well as for the asset collection on the network traffic flow chart.

Security

  • Updated the component performing interaction with the host OS to the latest version.

Extensions

  • Added the option to deep delete term with all hierarchical structure of the sub-terms inside this term.

  • Added the option to deep delete the taxonomy with all terms inside this taxonomy.

  • Added the option to click on the node name in the Network Traffic Flow chart Connection to display the detail dialog about the node.

  • Added page title on the connections details dialogue.

  • Added context help to the titles of the Collection list on the Network Traffic Flow chart.

  • Added Asset Type column to the Network Traffic Flow chart Collection list

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with displaying details context for the terms with no description on the taxonomy charts.

  • Fixed the issue with the context help format for the description of the asset permissions.

  • Fixed the issue with language translations of the server side task management messages.

  • Fixed the issue with the language translations on the connections details dialogue.

  • Fixed the issue with blanket error message on the browser console for the network flow charts including network locations.

Release notes for the December 22, 2024 update

Update Version 4.1.202412201927

New Features

Added the option to visualize a segmentation policy.

The option to visualize a segmentation policy on the Network Traffic Flow chart highlights target assets for the selected policy. Additionally, for each interactively selected target asset the option highlights the group of source assets allowed to connect to it following the rules of the selected policy.

The policy visualization option allows the network architect to analyze the connections that will be allowed after the policy publishing, the connections that would be dropped and the connections that did happen in the past but will be dropped (or allowed) when the policy will be enforced.

Added the option to create new Segmentation Policy using the Network Flow Chart

The option simplifies design process of Segmentation Policies by enabling the architect to visually define policy targets using Network Traffic Flow chart with graphically highlighted targets.

The intelligent policy creation mechanism suggests the service on the policy as well as the source assets selection based on the collected connections data displayed by the Network Traffic Flow chart.

Added graphical Asset Segmentation view.

The Asset Segmentation view of the Network Traffic Flow Chart displays all assets in the selected container even without detected connections including display of the connections that was detected during data collection from the asset endpoints..

The Asset Segmentation view allows comprehensive visualization of the effects of the segmentation policies for all assets involved in the network communications whether detected in the past or allowed in the future after publishing the policies and enforcing them on the asset.

Like the Network Traffic Flow chart itself, the Asset Segmentation view allows drilling-down through the container hierarchy, visual asset search, policy visualization, interactive conversion of host endpoints to new assets or network locations, mass asset tagging, promoting and policy creation.

Security

  • Updated client side WEB framework to the latest version.

  • Updated database access layer component to the latest version.

Extensions

  • Renamed the option to Save the asset (former Save and Promote) and to Save Draft (former Save) to the Asset Edit and Add Asset from Network Flow Chart screens.

  • Added the option to search Network Traffic Flow Chart by selected policy.

  • Added the option to display assets selected by the policy sources when highlighting an asset found by the policy selectors on the Network Flow Chart.

  • Added support to display total number of tenant assets used for the licensing purposes on the tenant license activation screen.

  • Added the option for shift-click to add a node to the collection on the Network Flow Chart screen.

  • Added mass promote and mass demote actions for the assets in the Network Flow Chart collection.

  • Added a progress indicator when expanding assets in the asset list.

  • Added the option to export Network Traffic Flow Chart to the SVG file.

  • Added the option to export visual taxonomy chart to SVG file

  • Added pan and zoom option to the Taxonomy chart on the Taxonomy Edit as well on the Taxonomy List screens.

  • Added context help to the Asset Connections screen

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with the icons display on the icon buttons on the Network Flow Chart screen.

  • Improved performance of expanding asset details in the large list of assets.

  • Fixed the issue with the empty sub-container name when selecting containers for the Network Flow chart drill down option in the breadcrumbs.

  • Fixed the issue with the missing context help for the asset workloads and asset connections screens.

  • Fixed the issue with renaming taxonomy terms affected the type ahead search.

  • Fixed the issue with the taxonomy chart occupy the whole width of the screen.

Release notes for the December 15, 2024 update

Update Version 4.1.202412132016

New Features

Added the option to create assets using Network Traffic Flow Chart

Add Asset option allows to identify and to classify devices using visual detected network connections map on the Network Traffic Flow Chart to apply application policies.

The option further advances Network Traffic Flow Chart to become an active visual facility for analyzing and classifying network devices from the data collected from the network.

Added Drill-down option to the Network Traffic Flow Chart.

Drill-down option allows to expand or to focus Network Traffic Flow Chart following the asset container hierarchy. Unlike diagram zoom, drill-down option reduces (or increases) number of nodes and connections on the visual chart based on the assets located in selected container (instead of changing the size of the existing chart on the screen that zoom does).

The option helps to analyze and to manage large networks by dividing them to hierarchical structures.

Added multi-parameter search option to the Network Traffic Flow Chart.

Multi-parameter search allows to find assets on the Network Traffic Flow Chart using several criteria that further refine each other results. The criteria allow search by the taxonomy terms or by asset name or description. Search by term includes all sub-terms of the selected term in the search criteria.

Multi-term search enables research of the effects of the microsegmentation policies using visual network representation by following policy selectors identification of assets.

Added the option to mass-add selected non-asset hosts from the Network Traffic Flow chart to new or existing Network Location

The option to aggregate non-asset hosts to few Network Locations using visual representation allows to simplify Network Traffic Flow Charts reducing the number of objects they display. The option also simplifies visualization of the design of microsegmentation policies grouping multiple outbound connections to few network location assets.

Security

  • Updated WEB application server to the latest version 11.0.2.

  • Updated WEB Application client side framework to the last major version 19.

  • Updated REST API Help framework component to the latest version.

  • Updated logging framework to the latest version.

Extensions

  • Added the option to create Network Locations from the IP-node on the Network Traffic Flow Chart.

  • Added display of the IP-level Network Traffic Flow Chart by default when accessing asset connections screen.

  • Added support for the field with values as well as to assets with fields to the Multi-parameter search REST API.

Bug Fixes

  • Optimized performance of search operations on the Network Traffic Flow Chart.

  • Fixed the issue with displaying empty Network Traffic Flow Chart for containers that do not include any collected traffic data.

  • Fixed the issue with adding or removing targets to the Request Selectors enables the save option on the Request Selector edit screen.

  • Fixed the issue with the space segmentation manager role having access to network related reports.

  • Fixed the issue with the Container Asset Creator role can only create assets in the container.

  • Fixed the issue with the Container Container Creator role can create both containers and assets in the container.

  • Fixed the issue with granting Container Creating roles to the Asset Viewer role and below.

Release notes for the December 8, 2024 update

Update Version 4.1.202412062140

New Features

Added the option to mas tag and to mass un-tag assets using Network Flow chart.

The option introduces selection of assets for tagging from the visual representation of the network flow.

The tagging allows assigning or removing multiple tags from the selected assets as well as utilizing Intelligent Tagging rules automatically tagging selected assets based on their characteristics.

Added the option to search assets on the Network Flow chart.

The option allows to search assets in the visual Network Flow chart by selected term or by text criteria. The search option highlights assets on the chart for the further analysis.

Added the option to display Network Locations on the network flow chart.

The option simplifies the network flow chart by aggregating several related nodes to the predefined Network Locations (IP Lists)

Extensions

  • Added the option to search for containers or for non-container assets to the application search center.

  • Added the option to manage collection of nodes selected from the network flow chart with the visual indication of the nodes added to the collection on the chart.

  • Added the option to move the asset and host viewer dialogue over the network flow chart.

  • Added connection detail dialogue for non-asset nodes on the visual network flow chart.

  • Added the option to zoom and pan network flow charts.

  • Added context help to the labels on the connection detail dialogue.

  • Added the option for the network flow chart to support Full Container Option display as well as browser resize to display larger charts.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with displaying port number on the connections detail dialogue as well as the popup display for IP based network flow chart.

Release notes for the December 1, 2024 update

Update Version 4.1.202411291557

New Features

Added continuous traffic monitoring option.

The continuous traffic monitoring option allows the software to consume logs from native firewall component to ensure permanent collection of network traffic from the endpoints.

The option enables comprehensive view on the network traffic for the further analysis, asset and traffic classification, and design of microsegmentation policies.

Added the option to create a new network service using the visual network traffic chart.

The option improves visualization of the network flow charts by simplifying adding names to port numbers.

Security

  • Updated logging framework to the latest version.

  • Updated database layer component to the latest version.

  • Updated data processor component to the latest version.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with creating duplicated entries when collecting duplicate data from the endpoints.

  • Fixed the issue with detecting protocol information when collecting connections from Windows endpoints.

  • Fixed the issue with collecting too many connection entries by ignoring the source port of IP connection merging multiple detected connections into a single connection with connection count.

  • Fixed the issue with connection report built for individual asset displaying only asset related data.

  • Fixed the issue with missing connections on the connections summary network flow for containers.

  • Fixed the issue with displaying correct name for the renames asset on the network traffic visualization chart.

Release notes for the update November 24, 2024

Update Version 4.1.202411221139

New Features

Added the option to import assets from AWS EC2 Service.

AWS import option allows to load assets into the asset database from AWS EC2 Service while applying intelligent tagging rules to classify the imported assets and to apply microsegmentation policies.

The import function simplifies system adoption by reusing existing network infrastructure and collected data to start system activities.

Added intelligent service resolution to the network flow visualization.

Intelligent service resolution improves readability of network flow visualizations by expressing them in the terminology of service names instead of the port numbers.

Intelligent service resolution uses services configured in the management section of the application. For the services not defined in the management section the intelligent service resolution uses well known port numbers.

The visual network flow diagram displays both service name and a port number in the popup dialogue that appears for the network device node on the chart.

Security

  • Updated API documentation component to the latest version.

Extensions

  • Added the option to open an asset view screen displaying asset metadata, fields and tags by selecting the asset node on the network flow chart.

  • Added the option to collect Time Zone from Linux and Windows endpoints.

  • Added the option to display time zone on the asset status report.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with rescheduling periodic jobs after changing time interval.

  • Fixed the issue with missing asset information for some of the connection endpoints on the network flow chart.

  • Fixed the issue with executing batch and handler scripts with Shell components returning no exit code or timing out.

  • Added trace logging message to log shell script to execute for troubleshooting purposes.

Release notes for the update November 17, 2024

Update Version 4.1.202411151844

New Features

Added the option to import assets from VMWare vSphere.

VMWare import option allows to load assets into the asset database from VMWare vSphere deployment while applying intelligent tagging rules to classify the imported assets and to apply microsegmentation policies.

The import function simplifies system adoption by reusing existing network infrastructure and collected data to start system activities.

Added intelligent asset resolution to the network flow visualization charts.

Intelligent asset resolution function significantly improves readability of network flow visualizations by expressing them in the terminology of asset or host names in addition to IP addresses.

Security

  • Updated WEB Container to the latest version 11.0.1.

  • Updated client-side WEB Application framework to the latest version.

  • Updated database access layer to the latest version.

  • Updated application task scheduler component to the last version.

Extensions

  • Added the screen to display application nodes and the processes that run on them. In addition to visualizing the details of background processes run by the node, the screen shows the architecture of multi-node High Availability deployments.

  • Added the option to configure VMWare vSphere connection using vCenter REST API.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with displaying overloaded network flow chart on the asset connections screen replacing it with the summary connections chart.

  • Fixed the issue with displaying asset on the event log report for the events of adding, updating or removing asset members.

Release notes for the update November 10, 2024

Update Version 4.1.202411081953

New Features

Added scheduled jobs execution scalability option for High Availability deployments using shared backend database.

High availability (HA) deployment using shared backend database allows attaching multiple tenants hosted by different servers to the same backend database. All tenants in the HA deployment share the same Key Ring to ensure decryption of encrypted content by any node in the deployment.

HA deployments using shared backend database improves system reliability and performance.

HA deployment improves the system stability by providing an actively running application portal GUI for system configuration and monitoring as well as continuous jobs execution in case of one of the application node malfunction or maintenance. In addition to this, HA deployment allows to scale the jobs execution by distributing remote Shell, PowerShell or Groovy jobs between several servers to allow more simultaneous jobs execution, parsing of the results and saving the dataset to the database.

Added support for product licensing.

Product licensing enables fine tuning the product features to the customer needs following the specific project requirements. Licensing options include the product expiration date, the number of assets under management as well as the number of tenant activations.

Each tenant in the deployment including peer nodes in the distributed deployments require the activation using either unique or multi-tenant activation code. A non-activated tenant works as a free trial edition with full functionality for 7 days after initialization of the tenant.

Security

  • Updated XML security component to the latest version.

  • Updated client-side WEB Application framework to the latest version.

  • Updated Oracle RDBMS driver version to the latest version.

  • Updated application scripting language Groovy to the latest version.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with low vertical space in the Checkbox display when viewing assets.

  • Fixed the issue with displaying secured Date field.

  • Fixed the issue with saving an asset with a Date field with a default value Today

  • Fixed the issue with displaying default date for the Date field on the asset type field editing screen.

  • Fixed the issue with saving an asset with the Date field that has default date value.

  • Fixed the issue with displaying Date field on the asset editing form.

  • Fixed the issue with re-validating the asset editing form after uploading a file to mark the required File field non-empty

  • Fixed the issue with the secured File field displays an unclear information on the asset editing screen.

  • Fixed the issue with displaying a secret value of the secure Taxonomy field on the asset view screen.

  • Fixed the issue with editing the asset with the secure Address field.

  • Fixed the issue with indicating that the Address field is required on the asset editing screen and to allow to save the asset in case the required asset field is not defined.

  • Fixed the issue with not functioning mass lock and mass unlock users buttons in the local directory.

  • Fixed the issue with the helper option displaying entry placeholder text for String, Address and Text field types.

  • Fixed the issue with redundant help option for File, Number, Taxonomy field types.

Release notes for the update November 3, 2024

Update Version 4.1.202410311711

New Features

Added the option to backup and to restore tenant data.

The backup and restore function could be used to save the copy of the assets, configurations, integrations, policies and reports from the tenant to recover from the deployment failures, to move the tenant to different deployment or to different back end database, or to build an integration solution that uses data managed by the tenant.

Backup and restore function include the following capabilities:

  • Full backup extracts data from the tenant spaces and subspaces.

  • Incremental backup extracts data created or modified since the defined cut-off date.

  • The option to create tenants from the saved backup file.

  • The option to restore incremental backup file into the existing tenant. The tenant level restore process preserves data existing in the tenant and adds the data from the incremental backup.

  • Backup extracts the data from the tenant database into the portable object-level JSON format with encrypted secured fields and keys.

  • The restore process allows to restore data into the different database as compared to the database of the original tenant.

Security

  • Updated HTTP communication component to the latest version.

  • Updated API data processor component to the latest version.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with only single-valued not-checkbox fields might be selected as secured fields.

  • Fixed the issue with the availability of the required option for a checkbox field

  • Added an indicator for a checkbox field in an off position on the asset view screens.

  • Fixed the issue with blanked errors on the browser console when navigating asset database.

  • Fixed the issue with saving default field values while not changing any other field on the asset edit form.

  • Fixed the issue with saving an asset with valid values in the required multi-valued fields.

  • Fixed the issue with the ability to save the asset in the inconsistent state using keyboard shortcut.

  • Fixed the issue with the ability to save an asset with an empty required field using the application API without the GUI.

  • Fixed the issue with displaying Hidden option on the type field editing screen.

  • Fixed the issue with deleting the expanded asset on the asset list screen generated an error.

  • Fixed the issue with saving assets with required choice fields that have default values.

  • Fixed the issue with saving assets that include required hidden fields.

Release notes for the update October 27, 2024

Update Version 4.1.202410251810

Security

  • Updated server side execution framework to the latest version LTS 21.0.5+11.

  • Updated client side framework to the latest version 18.2.9 / 18.2.10.

  • Updated context help rendering component to the last version.

  • Updated HTTP Transport component to the latest version.

  • Updated client side dependency and build components to the latest version.

Extensions

  • Added the option to filter job report by job status field.

  • Improved the multi-asset port based connection report by adding support for connection aggregation by high-number outbound port. The result displays a single chart node for multiple outbound connections from the same host to the same inbound port on different devices. The change simplified the chart by reducing a number of data points insignificant for the network analysis.

  • Improved the multi-asset connections report by including localhost connections.

  • Renamed multi-asset connections report.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with the duplicate Edit, Delete and Execute actions on the task list element expansion deprecated in favor of drop down menu.

  • Fixed the issue with default run at or schedule time on the edit task screen set to the next day.

  • Fixed the issue with unnecessary run at time for interactive or event driven tasks.

  • Fixed the issue with deleting a tenant deletes tenant keys.

  • Fixed the issue with base tenant dashboard displaying asset summary chart.

  • Fixed the issue with the ability to create a tenant without providing all required parameters.