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What’s New in Elements: August 2024

Editor’s Highlights

This edition of What’s New in Elements is shorter than normal, as August was vacation time for many of our team members. Of course those who were working during the month continued adding value to Elements, we’re always producing something.

Extended Detection and Response

Endpoint Protection

EPP Portal

Advisory shown when BitLocker recover key collection is disabled

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Advisory shown when BitLocker recover key collection failed

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EPP Mobile Protection app for iOS

An update to the WithSecure Elements Mobile Protection app for iOS (24.5.11113) has been released

It includes the following new features and improvements:

  • Replaced “Traffic protection” with “Recent activity”
  • Redesigned the main app interface
  • Extended details now shown for checked URLs
  • The app now supports false positive reporting
  • The app now supports proxy chain
EPP Mobile Protection app for Android

An update to the WithSecure Elements Mobile Protection app for Android (24.6.0022858) has been released.

It includes the following fixed issues:

  • The app now checks if a proxy is configured on the system level
EPP Elements Agent for macOS

WithSecure Elements Agent macOS 24.3.53323 has been released to our early access customers on 26th of August 2024. As usual, full availability will start 1-2 weeks later.

This release includes improvements to software updater and fixes to bugs which were causing agent to crash occasionally + other minor bug fixes.

The Installer can be downloaded from here.

Endpoint Detection and Response

Custom PDF report with EDR security incidents

When emailing a report using “My report” as data source, it is now possible to add the list of EDR incidents (Broad Context Detection) in the PDF report by simply clicking a tick-box as below.

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Exposure Management

Vulnerability Management

Upcoming changes to Navigation in Elements Security Center

Earlier, we started re-vamping the navigation in Elements Security Center, to make the navigation less product-centric, and more about the capabilities of Elements.

We will soon be making the next set of changes, which will bring Elements Vulnerability Management (EVM) capabilities to the new navigation. For those customers who have already been using Elements Expososure Management during the Early Access phase, these changes should be familiar.

These changes will be released to the Elements Security Center on September 30th 2024, and will bring Elements Vulnerability Management capabilities closer to the rest of Elements.

You can find out more details about the changes in our dedicated community article.

EVM System Scan

The following products have been added or updated in the detection capabilities for authenticated scanning for Windows:

  • Dell Power Manager
  • Cato Networks Windows SDP Client
  • Mp3tag
  • Splashtop Streamer

In case you missed it

Luminen skills for all Elements users

After 3 months of positive feedback from our Luminen Early Access program, which brought AI-powered reporting and analytics to both Broad Context Detections and Security Awareness,  we are now taking the first steps on enabling this level of functionality for more of our users. What is crucial, Luminen will be automatically visible and accessible to all users and free!

You can find out more details, including the schedule, at our dedicated community article.

End of support for old installers

As a reminder, we will soon be stopping support for the use of very old product installers. Customers using product installers dated 2022 or earlier should ensure that they are using the latest installers.

You can read more information about this at the WithSecure Community article

All WithSecure services with one user login

Access to WithSecure systems is based around the WithSecure Business Account. This account is your single login for all services that you have been granted access to.

We have now created a new unified login page which brings all the access points together, and we hope you’ll use it as your entry to our systems. As we introduce new products and services using the WithSecure Business Account, these will be added to the page too!

You can find out more in community article.

Why Robust Updates are important

During July, many organizations were badly affected by a faulty update released by one of our competitors. These organizations included airports, airlines, banks, and many others too.

We have taken the time to create an article explaining why these updates, and any updates for that matter, should be robust and well tested before release.

You can find the article on our public website

Share your ideas with us

Our purpose is to co-secure the world with you – now as WithSecure™. To co-create the best possible cyber security products and services, we warmly recommend you share your ideas via our Ideas Portal, now accessible directly from WithSecure™ Elements Security Center.

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Further information

Changelogs and Release Notes for all parts of WithSecure™ Elements can be found at the Help Center