Learn about the current and previous Endpoint Protector updates. Information regarding changes and enhancements is detailed in chronological order below.
26-June-2013
Endpoint Protector 4 Appliance - Update
(Version 4.4.0.0)
Server Version: 4.4.0.0
Content Aware Protection for MAC OS X (CAP for MAC) available as a New feature. Requires separate activation.
Improvements:
- File Tracing option for network shared drives
- Custom Server to Client notifications
- Improved Reports and Filters sections (added more columns and filtering options)
Windows Client Version: 4.2.3.0
[A restart PC is mandatory in case of Client Software Upgrade is performed from Web UI]
Improvements:
- Windows 8 compatibility
- Removed .Net framework dependency
- Trace file accesses on network share locations or drives mapped from the network
Content Aware Protection
- Added more file types (.hpt - PDF Template files, .hsdt - PowerPoint files, .nxl - Excel files, .DRM - Digital Rights Management files, .html files, .makefile - Programming files) to the File Extension Filter
- Detect national identification number: SSN for Korea, SSN for Taiwan
- Thunderbird version 17 e-mail body is now supported
- Detect also Korean phone numbers beginning with "0082"
- For a content aware violation of a file inside a ZIP archive (.zip, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .jar, .apk, .ipa, etc.) report also the name of the archive member. For example a reported file name could look like: "F:\temp\archive.zip\[subdir\sensitive_file_name.doc]"
- Improved e-mail detection
Device Control
- Added a new category called "Network Share" devices
- Detect and control Gemalto / USB Smart Card Reader devices
- Improved eSATA disks handling
Bug fixes:
- Shadow Size and Local Log Size were not received from Server, therefore system load could not be lowered using these settings
- If a proxy server was used, and the communication through the proxy server failed, it was possible for the EPP Client never to obtain a certificate even if direct connection to the EPP Server was available
- Detect iPad mini as such, rather than iPhone
- The previous Client could generate wrong log IDs that could eventually cause logs duplication on the Server
- Fixed possible memory corruption during memory de-allocation in the Outlook add-on and in the Thunderbird add-on
- Fixed file tracing from internal CD/DVD ROMs. This feature was lost when adding copy file detection
Mac Client Version: 1.2.1.6 (for MAC OS X: 10.5+)
New feature: Content Aware Protection (CAP) - This version can block or report files that contain a content policy violation and are accessed by a monitored application.
Improvements:
Content Aware Protection
- Added more file types (.hpt - PDF Template files, .hsdt - PowerPoint files, .nxl - Excel files, .DRM - Digital Rights Management files, .html files, .makefile - Programming files) to the File Extension Filter
- Detect national identification number: SSN for Korea, SSN for Taiwan
- Detect also Korean phone numbers beginning with "0082"
- For a content aware violation of a file inside a ZIP archive (.zip, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .jar, .apk, .ipa, etc.) report also the name of the archive member. For example a reported file name could look like: "F:\temp\archive.zip\[subdir\sensitive_file_name.doc]"
- Improved e-mail detection
- Use the Growl SDK to display notifications
Device Control
- Control also newer devices from Samsung vendor and Nexus phone from Google
- CD/DVD devices will not only be unmounted, but also ejected when they are connected and their right changes to blocked from the server
Bug fixes:
- Shadow Size and Local Log Size were not received from Server, therefore system load could not be lowered using these settings