Welcome to Release Day 2024.2 

These pages are designed to give you highlights of the innovative new features now available within the latest versions of the solutions you rely on. The products you use on a daily basis fall within suites that solve similar business requirements. These suites fall into three major portfolios, Infrastructure Protection & Data Security, Intelligence & Automation, and IBM i & Additional products. This new structure has been created to build solutions that meet specific organizational needs, and ultimately create the best experience for our customers.

You'll notice a Fortra Release Rocket beside some release announcements, denoting a major release. Note that you'll still see timely bug fixes and minor releases throughout the year to provide you with the best usability and experience for your Fortra products. 

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Frontline Vulnerability Manager (Frontline VM) has now become Fortra Vulnerability Management (Fortra VM). Though the name is changing slightly, the UI and functionality you’ve come to rely on in Frontline will remain and continue to be updated.  

In addition, the Fortra VM 7.0 release also includes access to a simplified login through the Identity Provider (IDP) that will give users access to a new customer support portal.   The new support portal offers ticket submission and tracking as well as knowledge base articles and FAQs. 

Recent product releases include:

New Features 

  • This version of Fortra Vulnerability Management, formerly Frontline Vulnerability Manager, introduces new Fortra VM branding and integration with Fortra's platform. 
  • Users will soon have access to Fortra IdP to simplify login, Fortra Support Portal access to support ticket submission and tracking, along with knowledge base articles and FAQs. 
  • Frontline VM users will be seamlessly transitioned to Fortra VM over the coming months with the opportunity to opt-in to Fortra's platform with native SSO version once eligible. 

Enhancements 

  • Branding alignment: 
    • Removed 'Frontline' verbiage throughout UI and reports 
    • Theme changes for branding alignment 
  • PCI Self Service: 
    • CVSS Score of 4.0 assigned to auto-fail vulns with no associated CVE-ID. 
    • Changed "3b note" to "Special Note (3b)"
    • Limited SSL/TLS auto-fails to a list of known vulnerabilities 
    • Updated agent documentation on help site
  • Improvements added to vulnerability dictionary (additional information and filters) 
  • Added support for switching account via API request 
  • Allowed nested General accounts 
  • Allowed entry of multiple phone numbers in a theme 
  • Report auto-scaling for improved report generation speed / capacity 
  • Account level settings to manage Fortra IdP eligibility and active status 

Fixes 

  • File upload requests redirect to login in platform 
  • Build Report in Active View errors and fails to show dialog box 

 

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