Release Notes 8.4.0
For more details about this release, read this blog.
Platform
New Features
- New embedded long time time-series database (timescaledb), enabling anomaly detection with machine learning
- New CVE engine with the ability to retrieve CVE information from MITRE and NIST NVD and dynamically generate alerts
- Custom reports – new system-defined reports
- Out-of-the-box PCI compliance report
- Out-of-the-box CVE report
- Ability to send email notification for each alert item
Improvements
- Custom reports
- Ability to save the selected legends and filters
- Ability to unselect all items from the legend
Bug Fixes
- IND-263 Fixed the navigation problem from the home page to the analysis page
- IND-328 Custom Report: Legend items overflow the chart area
Knowledge
New Features
#1 BueCat Integrity
New auto-detect elements:
- DNS forwarder not working
- DNS serial # falling too far behind
- DHCP range nearing exhaustion
- Deployment failure
- Long deployment time (BAM only)
- Invalid or missing service-type key
- TCP client limit approaching (BDDS)
- Disk errors
- Excessive swap
- Zone transfer failure
- Database size is higher than recommended (BAM only)
- No syslog servers are configured
- Syslog server config does not meet compliance requirement
- XHA split-brain detected (BDDS only)
- Missing SSH access timeout configuration
- Configured SSH timeout too high
- Configured Web Management (GUI) timeout too high (BAM only)
- Hardware end of support nearing
- Memory usage of dhcpmon process high (BDDS only)
- Zone transfer failure (BDDS only)
Anomaly detection for BlueCat BDDS:
- SERVFAIL
Other enhancement:
- Discover the list of BDDS from BAM, add the list to Known devices, greatly simplifying adding devices
#2 Broadcom/Symantec/Blue Coat Content Analysis
New Auto-Detect Elements:
- ICAP queue count
- ICAP failure
- Hardware state failures
- Port failures
- Port utilization
Other enhancement:
- Show device uptime in UI
#3 Check Point Maestro
- Added security group support to Known Devices, greatly simplifying adding devices
#4 Palo Alto Networks NGFW
New Auto-Detect Elements:
- Alert on critical system alarms
- BFD local state changed to down (critical)
- BFD local state changed to init (warning)
- BFD local state changed to admin down (info)
- BFD remote state changed to down (critical)
- BFD remote state changed to init (warning)
- BFD remote state changed to admin down (info)
Anomalies detection for Palo Alto Networks drop counters
- flow_tcp_non_sync_drop
- flow_policy_deny
- flow_action_close
- nat_xlat_address_resolved_fail
#5 CVE (multi-vendors)
- Over 200 new common vulnerabilities and exposures rules (from 2022-2024) for Broadcom/Symantec CAS, ProxySG, Check Point, Cisco ASA, F5 LTM, Fortinet FortiGate, and Palo Alto Networks NGFW
Bug Fixes
- IND-309 BlueCat BDDS: DNS statistics not available in HA passive mode
- IND-310 BlueCat BDDS: named service not available in HA passive mode
- IND-323 BlueCat Fixed meta_condition and supported fields rules with metric memory-usage
- IND-375 BlueCat BDDS: Fixed the incorrect dhcpmon name in the list of services
- IND-392 BlueCat BDDS: Fixed the DNS connectivity check issue
- IND-420 BlueCat BDDS: Incorrect service status on passive xHA node (DNS service is down)
- IND-36 CHKP: avoid issue on low values for chkp-mds-track-log-rotate
- IND-99 CHKP: Fixed various chkp-http-login-denied issues
- IND-362 CHKP Maestro: Fixed the cpu usage issue
- IND-363 CHKP Maestro: Fixed the memory usage issue
- IND-364 CHKP Maestro: Fixed the NTP sync false positive
- IND-366 CHKP Maestro: Fixed the interface down false positive
- IND-370 CHKP: Fixed the cphaprob_a_if_no_vsx parsing error
- IND-377 CHKP: fixed the enabled_blades_vsx.py parsing error
- IND-378 CHKP: Fixed the chkp_contract_file_size.py parsing error
- IND-384 CHKP: Fixed the “Interface nearing maximum Rx/Tx throughput” reporting error over 100%
- IND-416 CHKP CloudGuard: added support for “enabled”
- IND-418 CHKP: Fixed tag “name” in “process-cpu” and “process-memory” metrics
- IND-343 F5: Fixed the “Hardware element down – RAID” false positive issue
- IND-345 Zscaler: MAC visualization not showing interfaces names
- IND-417 Fixed the “parse method should return self.output” error