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v9.6.5 Release Notes for CyBlock Software & Virtual Appliance Release Notes

Enhancements

  • Health
    • Added new Health status page to display the current state of different components in the product through Health Modules. These modules can be configured to trigger notification alert emails when an error is detected. The following modules are currently available:
      • License Expiration – Checks the number of days left on the license and can trigger warning and error notifications based on days left.
      • Syslog Inactivity – Checks active syslog ports for data being sent and triggers alert when no data is received in a configurable time period. Module also checks for valid data being received instead of just any data and triggers different error alert accordingly.
  • Reporting
    • Dashboard
      • Visualizer
        • Added an extensive library of preconfigured charts for users to select when creating new panels.
  • Library
    • Updated product to use most recent MySQL library (8.0.33).

Corrections

  • Dashboard
    • Removed “AVG Daily Usage” and “AVG Daily Ingestion” tiles because metric is not useful when combined with metric data removal as it is currently. Results include large possible negative numbers. 

v9.6.5 Release Notes for Cyfin

Enhancements

  • Health
    • Added new Health status page to display the current state of different components in the product through Health Modules. These modules can be configured to trigger notification alert emails when an error is detected. The following modules are currently available:
      • License Expiration – Checks the number of days left on the license and can trigger warning and error notifications based on days left.
      • Syslog Inactivity – Checks active syslog ports for data being sent and triggers alert when no data is received in a configurable time period. Module also checks for valid data being received instead of just any data and triggers different error alert accordingly.
  • Reporting
    • Dashboard
      • Visualizer
        • Added an extensive library of preconfigured charts for users to select when creating new panels.
  • Library
    • Updated product to use most recent MySQL library (8.0.33).

Corrections

  • Dashboard
    • Removed “AVG Daily Usage” and “AVG Daily Ingestion” tiles because metric is not useful when combined with metric data removal as it is currently. Results include large possible negative numbers. 

v9.6.4.b Release Notes for Cyfin

Enhancements

  • Visualizer
    • Added support for Microsoft defender reporting.

Corrections

    • Data Management
      • Syslog
        • Corrected issue that could cause direct syslog imports to stop working upon a service restart. The file writer continued to work, just the metric server stop receiving the data directly. This was caused by the syslog server attempting to start before the importer had been initialized.
    • Visualizer
      • Corrected aggregation on nested fields

v9.6.4 Release Notes for Cyfin

Enhancements

  • Reporting
    • Firewall Reporting
      • Palo Alto Firewall reporting now available in addition to Web data. Both types of data can be seamlessly imported and reported on in the Visualizer which has been updated to include pre-configured Firewall dashboards. * Firewall Reporting requires an upgraded license, but evaluation periods are available.
  • Data Management
    • Log Data Setup
      • Updated the location of the wizard buttons for clarity and optimized flow.
    • Log Date Types
      • Updated Sonicwall VPN to include ability to parse NetExtender VPN data.

v9.6.3 Release Notes for CyBlock Software & Virtual Appliance Release Notes

Enhancement

  • Data Managements
    • Log Data Setup
      • Added Microsoft Defender as a configuration option. This feature only available for Cyfin in VM environment.
  • Reporting
    • Dashboard
      • Visualizer
        • Added Dashboard level filters. This allows a filter to be applied to all panels with matching data source on the configured dashboard.
  • Usage statistics
    • Added periodic anonymous usage statistics gathering to improve customer experience.

v9.6.3 Release Notes for Cyfin

Enhancements

  • Data Managements
    • Log Data Setup
      • Added Microsoft Defender as a configuration option. This feature only available for Cyfin in VM environment.
  • Reporting
    • Dashboard
      • Visualizer
        • Added Dashboard level filters. This allows a filter to be applied to all panels with matching data source on the configured dashboard.
  • Usage statistics
    • Added periodic anonymous usage statistics gathering to improve customer experience.

Corrections

  • Data Management
    • Import
      • Disabled auto importing of syslog enabled log configurations because stream is already automatically imported.

v9.6.2.a Release Notes for Cyfin

Enhancements

  • Logon Accounts
    • Added ability to add additional group permissions to imported logon accounts from Active Directory. 
  • Reporting
    • Visit Filter
      • Updated algorithm for determining hit versus visit to include additional portions of URL.

v9.6.2 Release Notes for CyBlock Appliance

Enhancements

  • Enhancements
    • System
      •  Added ability to import Groups and IDs through Directory Agent.
    • System Status
      • Messages
        • Visualizer
          • Added screen to view Visualizer profiling information.
    • Reporting
      • Dashboard
        • Visualizer
          • Added preconfigured dashboard templates for users to select when creating new dashboards.
          • Updated timeframe selection to always be relative when creating/editing dashboards. Modifying the timeframe in the dashboard view page is only temporary and a button is added to reset back to default timeframe selection. Navigating away also resets the timeframe back to dashboard default.

Corrections

  • Reporting
    • Dashboard
      • Visualizer
        • Corrected visualizer link in product menu when user account does not have a valid email address by redirecting to logon accounts modification screen.