{"id":7211,"date":"2025-09-17T16:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=announcement&#038;p=7211"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:10:20","slug":"whats-new-in-elements-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/announcements\/whats-new-in-elements-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in Elements &#8211; August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-id=\"editor-s-highlights\"><strong>Editor\u2019s Highlights<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Summertime is traditionally a quiet time for developing and releasing new features. During August, our teams have largely been focusing on improving existing functionality, to bring a better experience to our customers.<\/p>\n<h2 data-id=\"exposure-management\"><strong>Exposure Management<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4 data-id=\"enriched-identity-risk-assessment\"><strong>Enriched Identity risk assessment<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Identity risks assessment tab has been enriched with data impacting the calculation of Identity\u2019s risk factor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"entry-image display-large float-none\"><a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-8beeb15466318-ac8a.jpg.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-8beeb15466318-ac8a.jpg.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-8beeb15466318-ac8a.jpg.webp 780w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-8beeb15466318-ac8a-300x238.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-8beeb15466318-ac8a-768x609.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-8beeb15466318-ac8a-447x355.jpg.webp 447w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-8beeb15466318-ac8a-184x146.jpg.webp 184w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" alt=\"image-8beeb15466318-ac8a.png\" height=\"619\" width=\"780\" loading=\"lazy\" data-display-size=\"large\" data-float=\"none\" data-type=\"image\/png\" data-embed-type=\"image\"><\/img><\/a><\/figure>\n<h3 data-id=\"exposure-management-for-business\"><strong>Exposure Management for Business<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 data-id=\"system-scan\"><strong>System Scan<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Support for detecting vulnerabilities in the following products was added to Authenticated Scanning for Windows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apache Commons Lang<\/li>\n<li>Apache Jackrabbit<\/li>\n<li>Apache Jena Fuseki<\/li>\n<li>Apache Struts Extras<\/li>\n<li>BeeDrive for desktop<\/li>\n<li>Comodo Dragon<\/li>\n<li>Elastic Beats<\/li>\n<li>hMailServer<\/li>\n<li>Logpoint AgentX Client<\/li>\n<li>MagicINFO Server<\/li>\n<li>Malwarebytes Binisoft Windows Firewall Control<\/li>\n<li>qBittorrent<\/li>\n<li>Reactor Netty<\/li>\n<li>Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365<\/li>\n<li>Veeam Recovery Orchestrator<\/li>\n<li>Wazuh Agent for Windows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-id=\"elements-foundations\"><strong>Elements Foundations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 data-id=\"elements-security-center\"><strong>Elements Security Center<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>New roles for managing access to XDR features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32233-new-roles-for-managing-access-to-xdr-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">previously announced<\/a>, changes were made to the Security Administrators screen.<\/p>\n<p>All Endpoint Protection(EPP) users in the system as of June 30, 2025, were automatically granted access to XDR features to maintain backward compatibility. New EPP users created after this date must have their XDR access explicitly assigned with one of the new XDR roles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Broad Context Detections<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Full editing<\/strong>\u00a0or<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read-only<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Response<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Execute responses<\/strong>\u00a0or<\/li>\n<li><strong>List Responses<\/strong>\u00a0or<\/li>\n<li><strong>No access<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Event Search<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read-only<\/strong>\u00a0or<\/li>\n<li><strong>No access<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elements IAM Admin is the only role authorized to grant or revoke XDR access.<\/p>\n<h3 data-id=\"integrations\"><strong>Integrations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 data-id=\"withsecure-elements-api\"><strong>WithSecure Elements API<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5 data-id=\"new-fields-in-devices-endpoint-and-security-events\"><strong>New fields in Devices endpoint and Security Events<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The latest release in Elements API brings several new fields to the query devices endpoint and human-readable descriptions to Security Events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New device endpoint fields<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More information on connectivity status, various security parameters, installation tags and browsing protection status are exposed from the query devices endpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of new device fields below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>installationTags<\/li>\n<li>connectivityStatus<\/li>\n<li>unreachableConnectionAddresses<\/li>\n<li>unstableConnectionAddresses<\/li>\n<li>networkExtensionContentFilterServiceEnabled<\/li>\n<li>systemIntegrityProtectionEnabled<\/li>\n<li>systemExtensionEnabled<\/li>\n<li>guestAccount<\/li>\n<li>fullDiskAccessGranted<\/li>\n<li>defaultBrowser<\/li>\n<li>defaultBrowserStatus<\/li>\n<li>browsingProtectionExensionChrome<\/li>\n<li>browsingProtectionExensionFirefox<\/li>\n<li>browsingProtectionExensionSafari<\/li>\n<li>browsingProtectionExensionEdge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See more information on the fields from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Felements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">api specification<\/a>\u00a0(under Devices).<\/p>\n<p><strong>New human-readable Security Events fields<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two new fields are added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>message \u2014 details of the security event<\/li>\n<li>description \u2014 short general description of the type of the event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see examples of these fields from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Fsecurity-events%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">Security Events specification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-id=\"in-case-you-missed-it\"><strong>In case you missed it<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 data-id=\"withsecure-elements-collaboration-protection-and-microsoft-sharepoint-embedded\"><strong>WithSecure Elements Collaboration Protection and Microsoft SharePoint Embedded<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You can find out more about support for Microsoft SharePoint Embedded <a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32239-withsecure-elements-collaboration-protection-and-microsoft-sharepoint-embedded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h3 data-id=\"update-to-exposure-management-to-improve-coverage-for-rpm-based-linux\"><strong>Update to Exposure Management to improve coverage for RPM based Linux<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We recently significantly expanded our coverage of RPM based Linux distributions in Exposure Management. You can find out more in this <a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32240-important-update-to-exposure-management-28-august-2025-improved-coverage-for-rpm-based-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">dedicated article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-id=\"share-your-ideas-with-us\"><strong>Share your ideas with us<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our purpose is to co-secure the world with you \u2013\u00a0now as WithSecure\u2122. To co-create the best possible cyber security products and services, we warmly recommend you share your ideas via <a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/categories\/ideas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">the Ideas section of the WithSecure Community<\/a>, now accessible directly from WithSecure\u2122 Elements Security Center.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"entry-image display-medium float-none\"><a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-ad237c951aaac-8cfe.png.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-ad237c951aaac-8cfe.png.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-ad237c951aaac-8cfe.png.webp 337w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-ad237c951aaac-8cfe-300x298.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-ad237c951aaac-8cfe-150x150.png.webp 150w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/image-ad237c951aaac-8cfe-147x146.png.webp 147w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" alt=\"image-ad237c951aaac-8cfe.png\" height=\"335\" width=\"337\" loading=\"lazy\" data-display-size=\"medium\" data-float=\"none\" data-type=\"image\/png\" data-embed-type=\"image\"><\/img><\/a><\/figure>\n<h2 data-id=\"further-information\"><strong>Further information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Changelogs and Release Notes for all parts of WithSecure\u2122 Elements can be found at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.withsecure.com%2Fuserguides%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">Help Center\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Highlights Summertime is traditionally a quiet time for developing and releasing new features. 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