{"id":6746,"date":"2023-04-19T19:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=announcement&p=6746"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:06:24","slug":"whats-new-in-elements-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/announcements\/whats-new-in-elements-march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s New in Elements: March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Highlights<\/h2>\n

Outbreak Control<\/strong> \u2013 This new feature brings a powerful capability to dynamically and temporarily increase security when an EDR detection has been made on devices. You can find out more in the Elements Security Center section below.<\/p>\n

Elements Security Center<\/h2>\n

New Features<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Outbreak control<\/strong>: Outbreak control is an extension for profile assignment rules. When change tracking is enabled, you can create a rule that automatically reacts to open EDR detections and assigns a hardened profile and custom labels to the affected endpoint. Once the detection is closed it will automatically change the profile and labels back based on your other rules<\/p>\n

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Security Posture (piloting release<\/strong>) Security Posture analyzes your devices and profiles to find common weaknesses that lead to devices being compromised or confidential data being leaked. You can click on the items to see further explanations and instructions.<\/p>\n

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Slightly later in the month, we also added two more new recommendations: “Over 10% of workstations have been last logged in by an admin user<\/strong>” and “System integrity protection is disabled<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Improvements<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Server Share Protection<\/strong>: We have added the possibility to set a folder for backups and to set a maximum backup file size.<\/p>\n

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Network Location Settings.<\/strong> It is now possible to override settings even if they are locked in the profile. The red notification is not needed anymore.<\/p>\n

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Device View<\/strong>. Monthly scanning counters have been added to the devices view. You can see how many files were scanned and how many issues were found during the month. These counters can be used to make queries.<\/p>\n

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My Reports<\/strong>. Customers can now provide feedback about the new My Reports view. We are gathering feedback to further improve and make this new functionality more useful.<\/p>\n

Audit Logging<\/strong>. Changes and operations done in the profile assignment rules page are now visible in the Audit Log.<\/p>\n

Device Details. <\/strong>We have improved the readability of local and admin exclusions in the device details by rendering the path as a list. If any of the exclusions are considered dangerous they are now highlighted in the list.<\/p>\n

Security Events<\/strong>. Events can now be filtered by the device labels. It is important to note that any changes to the labels assigned to the device are to be visible only in the events happening after the label change was made. No changes to historical data is ever made.<\/p>\n

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Similar to what has already been available in the Devices view now also Security Events view supports Saved Views. With the initial release a set of predefined system views is shipped together with an option to create custom user views.<\/p>\n

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Multiple Proxy Support (Windows). <\/strong>We have added multiple proxy support to windows proxy settings. This will be available with clients 23.4+<\/p>\n

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Show discovered shared folders. <\/strong>To increase visibility of folders shared from a device, for example useful with Server Share Protection, we now show \u201dshared folders\u201d in the Devices view and the Devices details pages.<\/p>\n

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Advisory dashboard<\/strong>. The pie-charts are now displayed with legends to aid readability and understanding.<\/p>\n

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Elements Endpoint Protection<\/h2>\n

WithSecure Elements Mobile Protection app for iOS released<\/strong><\/h3>\n

An update to the WithSecure Elements Mobile Protection app for iOS (23.0.10134) has been released. It includes the following new features and improvements:<\/p>\n