DataSecurity Plus Release Notes

Build 6002

Features

• On-the-fly duplicate file deletion: Administrators can delete duplicate files right from the Duplicate Files report. Further, each deletion will be recorded in the technician audit log.

Enhancements

• The Files Pasted report now shows the location from where a user last copied a file, if the file was copied via the same machine.
• Alerts in the Endpoint module can be viewed based on their profile type.

Bug fixes

• Move/delete responses can now be executed without any issues when sensitive files are copied to clipboard.
• Users can now classify files without any disruptions in 32-bit OS environments too.

Build 6001

Fixes

• The following issues have been resolved in this release:
  • Duplicate events will not be recorded for actions under email auditing report.
  • Exported Data risk assessment reports will show only the required data.
  • You can now exclude events based on file size in File audit reports.
  • You can now change DataSecurity Plus' default password.
  • Configure OneDrive to be scanned as a whole.
  • Users and groups can now be automatically added when new Workgroups are configured.
  • Everyone can view file permissions only in Data risk assessment reports.

Build 6000

Features

Data leak prevention

• Data protection - Monitor, alert on, and block unwarranted data transfer activities to USB devices and email (Outlook).
• Incident remediation - Delete or quarantine files, block USB data transfers or choose from other predefined options for active remediations.
• USB auditing - Track and analyze the usage of removable storage devices and data transfer to them, across your organization.
• Workstation auditing - Audit all file accesses and modifications across your Windows endpoints in real time.
• File copy auditing - Report and alert on file copy-and-paste events in real time using predefined policies.
• File share auditing - Track all file accesses and modifications to shared files and folders in real time.
• Print server monitoring - Audit and analyze print server usage to find who printed what files and when.

Data Risk Assessment

• Data discovery in OneDrive - Find and analyze sensitive personal data?also known as PII/ePHI?stored in OneDrive.
• Data classification - Inspect content, and automate the classification of files containing sensitive data.
• File tagging - Use manual file tagging capabilities to classify files, based on their sensitivity, as Public, Private, Confidential, or Restricted.
• Real-time notifications - Trigger instant alerts when sensitive personal data is discovered.
• One-stop operational dashboard - Get a quick overview of any recently-discovered PII (including volume and type), identified trends in storage of personal data, and more.

File Analyzer

• Spot permission vulnerabilities - Detect instances of permission inconsistencies i.e., broken inheritances.
• Detect security vulnerabilities - Identify and remediate security issues such as and purge files owned by stale or deleted users by deleting them.
• Locate duplicate files - Automate the identification of duplicate files.
• Diskspace analyzer - Analyze storage growth and disk usage patterns, and generate instant alerts when free space falls below a preconfigured limit.
• ROT data analyzer - Identify redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) files to declutter your storage space.

Build 5012

Fixes

The following issues have been resolved:

• Technicians can view and send test mail without authorization.
• Duplicate events recorded for create and delete.
• Agent stops collecting data when a monitored drive is reattached.
• Client IP and host name missing in certain conditions.
• Storage analysis page unresponsive in Internet Explorer.
• Exported risk assessment reports show incomplete data for certain time zones.
• Other minor fixes.

Build 5011

Fixes

• Minor issue fixes
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Build 5004

Fixes

The following issues have been resolved in this release:

• Issue in starting the event collection driver in certain versions of Windows Server 2016.
• Unable to exclude events based on client IP and host name.

Build 5003

Enhancements

• Event collection speed and performance has been improved.
• The following operations have been automated
• Enabling file server setup after relicensing.
• Update of ransomware file types to default alert profiles.

Fixes

• The following issues have been resolved in this release:
• Unable to audit folder delete events.
• Issue which freezes the web console while clicking email notifications.
• Duplicate values for 'read' and 'read deny' events.
• Unable to add action type to exclude configuration.
• Issue in displaying username in access audit graphs.
• Unable to audit multiple cluster CAPs.

Build 5002

Fixes

The following issues have been resolved in this release:

• When the product was launched using Internet Explorer.
• Dropdown boxes not working.
• Risk assessment module date field showing 'Nan'
• Unable to add technician.
• Unable to change alert mail content and subject.
• Unable to attach drive in turkish language machine.
• No RPC & HTTP communication in cluster.
• Issue in getting correct cluster information when multiple clusters configured.
• Issue in group and OU rule configuration.
• Other minor fixes.

Build 5001

Fixes

Minor issue fixes.

Build 5000

New Feature

• Risk assessment (Data discovery) - Identify, track, and report instances of personal data stored in files, folders, or shares.

Enhancements

• Advanced filtering options for detailed file access audit.
• Ability to configure inclusion and exclusion rules for file access audit and alert profiles.
• Exclude configuration now supports a wide range of criteria.
• Revamped graphs across all reports and alerts for enhanced user experience.

This release also features minor fixes.

Build 4302

Fixes

• Agent start-up issue in Windows server 2003 -fixed.

Build 4301

Fixes

• Minor issue fixes and improvements.

Build 4211

Fixes

• File servers could not be added when the product was launched using Internet Explorer.
• Issue with event processing after server restart.
• Issue in scheduling reports when the time is in PM.
• Unable to mail reports generated without authentication.
• Driver start-up issues in Windows Server 2016.

Build 4210

Features

• Generate on demand reports on shares, effective permssions, like privileged users, and orphaned files.
• Classify files based on type, category and ownership.
• E-mail alerts to notify data collection issues.
• Support for Windows Server 2016.

Enhancements

• Performance enhancement for generation and exporting of reports.

Fixes

• The keyboard numpad issue is fixed.
• Exporting Japanese and Chinese characters- issue fixed
• Agent side makeover for better performance.
• Agent installation and share selection fails- issue fixed.

Build 4201

Fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

Build 4200

Features

• Audit, report and get alerted on non-domain (workgroup) file servers.

Enhancements

• View registry properties of agent.
• Experience accelerated event processing.
• Delete custom report views.
• Customize alert table columns.
• Prioritize alert mails.
• Automate response to alerts that get triggered by executing batch commands.

Fixes

• Identify cross-domain users issue- fixed.
• Configure mail server when authentication is disabled issue- fixed.
• Authentication of password with special characters issue- fixed.

Build 4111

Fixes

• Performance enhancements for faster report loading.

Build 4110

Features

• Identify the machine (machine name and IP address)- from which the event was triggered.

Enhancements

• Domain & server wise exclude 'computer accounts' from being monitored.
• Configure drives under local folder in basic file server configuration.
• Eliminate deny events for admin, arising due to User Account Control.

Fixes

• A host of minor issues have been fixed to improve performance.

Build 4101

Fixes

• Events not reported after applying patch issue- fixed.
• Configuring specific folder within share issue- fixed.
• Minor bug fixes.

Build 4100

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus has undergone a major revamp. The new build is easier to use and is also packed with additional features that ensure better data security and information management within your windows file server environment.

Features

• ‘Access Analysis Reports‘- Pre-configured reports that provide a summary view of the- Most accessed/modified files, Most accesses by process/user and Files accessed/modified after N days.
• ‘Storage Analysis Reports‘- Help isolate old, stale (unused), unmodified, large, hidden and non-business files and also provides graphical insight into how your disk space is being utilized.
• Threshold based alerts- Lets the admin define a threshold limit beyond which alerts can be triggered, which allows for detection of ransomware and other similar attacks for instance.
• Local files/folders can be audited.

Enhancements

• Specific folders within any share can be audited (sub-shares).
• Custom time periods can be defined.
• ‘Access Audit Report’ has additional filters and custom views can also be created here.
• Exclude users, file types, file name/ local path/ process name from being monitored both domain/server wise now.

Fixes

• Specific folders within any share can be audited (sub-shares).
• Business hour configuration issue- fixed.
• Exporting huge volumes of data issue- fixed.

Build 4016

Fix

• DataSecurity Plus Agent .net 4.6.1 not supported issue- Fixed

Build 4015

Enhancements

• Memory usage has been optimized to handle large volumes of data dump from the agents.

Fixes

• Updating domain credentials in IE browser issue- fixed.
• Changing encryption types under mail server configuration issue- fixed.
• E-mailing of disk space alerts issue- fixed.

Build 4010

Enhancements

• Filters to export required data from reports.
• DataSecurity Plus Agent .net 4.0 supported.
• Agent performance improved.

Fixes

• Search in server and share configuration issue- fixed.
• Existing domain controllers getting removed when adding new DC's issue- fixed.
• Auditing getting stopped after disabling server in configuration issue- fixed.

Build 4000

Features

• Agent based auditing- Monitor file / folder related activities in real time.
• Pre-configured reports- Keep track of all file / folder related activities like read, write, overwrite, delete, moved, renamed & permission changes.
• Real time email alerts- Straight to your inbox with in-depth event analysis.
• Schedule Reports- Automate periodic report generation for analysis.
• Compliance requirements- Export data to CSV, PDF, XLS & HTML formats to satisfy compliance requirements of SOX, PCI and FISMA.
• Dashboard- Graphical representation of important audit data.
• Flat UI- Utmost clarity & ease of use.
• Disk space alerts.
• Archive Data - Save disk space with data archiving, also restore data when required.