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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The Latest from Powertech

Fortra's Powertech is your security partner in managing evolving data privacy threats with automated solutions. Our solutions are designed to help you simplify security, so you can easily meet auditor demands and harden your system to protect your organization’s most valuable asset: your business-critical data.  

Recent product releases include:

  • Powertech Antivirus for IBM i 8.1 Fortra Release Rocket 
    • On-access and on-demand scan statistics along with Virus detection events are now forwarded to the PTAV Server for use in dashboards. 
    • In addition to on-demand scanning, on-access scanning can now be configured in the HelpSystems One PTAV application. 
    • Extended support for IBM i endpoints within Powertech Antivirus: 
    • Anti-ransomware functionality can now be configured for IBM i endpoints. Requires this version (8.10 (R8M10)) or higher of the Powertech Antivirus for IBM i software to be installed on the IBM i system. 
    • The Trellix 6600 scan engine has been incorporated. Compared to the previous version of the scan engine, this offers improvements in detection capabilities, performance, product security and stability, improved support for DMG files, and support for the APK file type. 
    • The documentation of the anti-ransomware functionality has been extended massively to highlight the detection mechanisms, mitigation mechanisms, and usage scenarios. 
    • The Anti-Ransomware section of the User Guide has been updated to more clearly distinguish between the two detection mechanisms. 
    • All references to "McAfee" have been replaced with the new brand name, "Trellix". 
    • In the User Guide, the section on monitoring the product has been extended to include additional messages to monitor for, such as the AVE3001 and AVE3002 anti-ransomware messages. 
    • Endpoint registration has been improved as follows: 
    • The Endpoint Menu now has two options: 
    • Register as Web Endpoint (prompts a new command AVREGWEB which allows the user to register the system as an endpoint). 
    • Control Web Endpoint Servers (prompts the existing AVINSITE command) 
    • In the 'Monitoring' section of the User Guide, updated information is provided about which messages to monitor for in Powertech Antivirus. 
    • Support has been added for scanning multiple directories when the scan is configured from the GUI. 
    • The fields, “block time” and “block origin” have been added to blocked users within the web server. 
    • The Integrity Scan log has been amended to have an ascii ccsid. 
    • The information in the User Guide about managing IBM i endpoints with Powertech Antivirus Server has been expanded. 
  • Powertech Antivirus 6.2 Fortra Release Rocket  
    • Powertech Antivirus now automatically supplies dashboarding capabilities to HelpSystems One upon registration. 
    • Extended support for IBM i endpoints: 
    • Anti-ransomware functionality can now be configured for IBM i endpoints. *Requires version 8.10 (R8M10) or higher of the Powertech Antivirus for IBM i software to be installed on the IBM i system. This version is planned for release in Q2 2024. 
    • IBM i endpoint now provides an on-access scan configuration. 
    • On-Demand scans for the IBM i now support the configuration values "Run Priority" and "Log Level". 
    • Users can now download PDF reports without the need to email them. 
    • Support for Linux/Unix endpoints has been enhanced: 
    • The On-Demand scan configurations now allow the user to specify file extensions to be excluded by specifying the Exclude parameter as: *.dbf:*.log:*.ctl. 
    • The On-Demand scan configuration now allows users to configure the number of threads used to run during a scan. This requires Endpoint version 6.3.0 which is not yet released. 
    • Java runtime environment has been upgraded to 11.0.20. 
    • Postgres has been upgraded to 12.18. 
    • Kafka has been upgraded to version 3.5.1. 
    • Apache Tomcat has been upgraded to 9.0.85. 
    • The server used to provide DAT updates via https and sftp has been upgraded to support TLS 1.2. 
    • Powertech Antivirus now creates self-signed certificates that can be trusted by client browsers. Documentation has been added to assist customers who wish to replace the self-signed certificates. 
    • Support has been added for discreet control over the command used to initiate SMTP connections over TLS. 
    • Powertech Antivirus Server can now send email notifications to servers that require a TLS 1.2 connection. 
    • Info level Apache Tomcat logging is now enabled by default. Logs are created in /opt/ptavwebsvc/logs with filenames prefixed with Apache Tomcat. 
    • The presentation of the side forms in the user interface has been enhanced to reflect our current corporate standard. 
    • Reports have been rebranded to use the Fortra logo. 
    • The User Guide now contains instructions on how to configure digital certificates for the browser-based user interface and avoiding the certificate warnings from browsers. 
    • The User Guide has been expanded to provide more information about managing IBM i endpoints with Powertech Antivirus Server. 
  • Powertech Compliance Monitor for IBM I 4.4 
    • Batch assessment's email process has been updated to ensure it is RFC 55322 compliant. 
    • An issue where Batch Assessment's ‘Use automatic assessment data’ was being unchecked, has been resolved. 
    • An issue where the Profiles with Default Passwords assessment was empty on IBM i 7.5, and where profiles that did have default passwords were displayed as not having default passwords, has been resolved. 
    • Fixed an issue when updating the product received error; MCH0601 Space offset X'00022000' or X'0000000000000000' is outside current limit for object &1. 
    • Fixed an issue where some CD Journal Entries were causing assessments to end abnormally. 
    • Fixed an issue where the Authority Broker Exclusions filter was failing. 
  • Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication 1.5.4 
    • Apache Tomcat has been upgraded to 9.0.90 to alleviate security vulnerabilities. 
    • The User Guide now explains how to use third-party authenticators such as Microsoft Authenticator or Google Authenticator with Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication. 
    • RADIUS configuration documentation has been enhanced. 
  • Powertech Database Monitor for IBM i 3.18 
    • The ability to track changes based on jobs’ current user has been added. 
    • The ability to customize the delimiter for .csv export has been added. 
    • A process to allow email '@' symbols to work on systems with a language other than English has been added. 
    • The job user, instead of the current user, was being used to determine access to the product's options. This has now been resolved. 
    • An issue where the fields marked to "Track Always" were generating excessive history records, has been resolved. 
    • An issue where a user was unable to run reports has been resolved. 
    • An issue with entering product license key has been resolved. 
    • An issue where “Fatal IDT480 Error: CPF5715” messages were being sent on inactive files has been resolved. 
    • An issue with activating a Database Monitor file has been resolved. 
    • An issue where an old menu option was still being displayed, Option 5 Security Swap, has been resolved. 
    • An issue when using email to sign for changes did not display the response correctly has been resolved. 
    • An issue where users were being added twice to the product has been resolved. 
    • An issue where the Archive History was not displaying has been resolved. 
    • An issue accessing Archiving has been resolved. 

 

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