PKWARE Release Notes

PK Protect Endpoint Manager 

PK Endpoint Manager

Summary

Appliance / Windows

Version 19.6.114

• Targets and Protection Policies
  o New objects available in the Policy menu: Protection Policies contain information pertaining to policy bundles and remediations and are used within targets. Targets contain information related to the scope of a Protection Policy.
  o New fields in target status page (sensitive, retention, and estimation data) help better understand a target’s health. This information can also be visualized in a Data Risk Assessment dashboard.
  o Horizontally scale with Targets and Distributed App Pools. 
  o Target functionality includes many advancements and will replace assignments and lockers. 
• Distributed App Pools
  o Easily distribute the workload of assigned targets using a combination of devices. 
  o Faster completion of horizontally scaled agents and initial scans. 
• Bulk Export/Import
  o New capability for bulk exporting and importing configurations and objects in PEM Administrator. 
  o Conveniently import exported files into different PEM Administrators. Test configurations in DEV environments and easily move changes to production to speed up implementation 
  time and reduce duplication of work.
• Dashboard Changes
  o Share dashboards across all PEM Administrators. 
  o Export / import single dashboards into different PEM 
  Administrators. 
  o Jumpstart usage with a pre-made dashboard library. This growing library is available via PKWARE’s support website.
• Menu Changes
  o A new menu item called Devices contains Devices, Pools, and Profiles. Devices and Profiles were previously found under Archive menu item. 
  o A new menu item called Policies contains Targets and Protection Policies. 
  o Bulk Export and Bulk Import pages are found under the Advanced menu item. 

PK Endpoint Agent

Windows, Mac, Linux
Version 17.6.0008

Features

• Targets and Protection Policies
  o New objects available in the Policy menu: Protection Policies contain information pertaining to policy bundles and remediations and are used within targets. Targets contain information related to the scope of a Protection Policy.
  o New fields in target status page (sensitive, retention, and estimation data) help better understand a target’s health. This information can also be visualized in a Data Risk Assessment dashboard.
  o Horizontally scale with Targets and Distributed App Pools. 
  o Target functionality includes many advancements and will replace assignments and lockers. 
• Distributed App Pools
  o Easily distribute the workload of assigned targets using a combination of devices. 
  o Faster completion of horizontally scaled agents and initial scans.

• •Added support for QR code passphrase reading. 

Component

ID

Details

Affected Version

PEM

 PEM-194

When logged in as Super Sys Admin, the following pages user interfaces (UI) did not match standard PEM styling: Appliance -> System, Basics -> Import, MIP -> DKE Keys, MIP -> Labels. These pages were updates.

 19.6+

 PEM

PEM-217

When a Trusted Root Certificate is added or removed the PEM Administrator application does not become aware of change until restart. Updates were made to force this recognition.

 19.6+

PEM

 PEM-269

Empty dashboard panels are included in dashboard exports. Empty panels are now removed from any export.

 19.6+

PEM

 PEM-481

Many updates were made to improve Active Directory (AD) syncing.

-      Account sync maintains state and will leave off where it stopped during a server restart.

19.4+

PEM

PEM-355

There were inconsistencies in the amount of time identities received group changes after account syncs. This standardized among all login types.

19.6+

PEM

PEM-373

Delete memos are created for various object deletes but they were never deleted. A background task was set up to purge these.

19.6+

PEM

PEM-412

A dashboard exported as PNG contained the spinner. This was resolved to export after spinner was hidden.

19.6+

PEM

PEM-615

When editing an email or file encryption remediation which uses a Smartkey is edited to not use a Smartkey, the resulting remediation table still showed a Smartkey as selected. This did not impact functionality but was confusing. The Smartkey is now cleared from the table as expected. 

19.5+

PEM

PEM-697

When editing a discovery locker, a JavaScript error occurred preventing saving. This was resolved.

19.4+

PEM

PEM-736

An error was discovered when using the propagation page to force propagation of an identity to CMDS. This was resolved.

19.6+

Agent

PEM-385

Fixed a few minor UI oddities related to Windows 11.

17.6+

Agent

PEM-498

Certificates with private keys imported to CNG provider did not show as Personal. The UI was modified not to filter CNG keys using

17.6+

PK Secure

Email

PEM-362

With an encryption email policy enabled, an email with a sensitive attachment and nonsensitive body saw both attachment and body

1.2+

PK Secure

Email

PEM-400

When PEM Agent is closed and a user attempts to send an email a prompt stating the PEM Agent is offline. The cancel button in this prompt did not respond to user click. This was fixed so cancel and X buttons close the prompt.

1.2+

PK Secure Email

 PEM-463

The minimum Microsoft SDK version supported was dropped to 1.5, allowing customers with older versions of Microsoft software to take advantage of PK Secure Email. For our full support matrix, please contact support.

 1.1+

PK Secure Email

PEM-676

When sending to a distribution list the external recipient prompt would lock up. This has been fixed and there are no known issues sending to distribution lists.

 1.2+

iOS Mobile

PEM-521

Some options were not clearly visible when in Light mode. UI was adjusted to make these options clearly visible.

2.1+

iOS Mobile

PEM-528

With Azure AD authentication enabled, the app crashes when wrong login credentials are inputted. The app crash was fixed.

2.1+

iOS Mobile

PEM-535

With Azure AD authentication disabled, some scenarios allowed users to login using Azure AD credentials. This was fixed to block Azure AD logins.

2.1+

Platform

Checksum

Windows 64- bit

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macOS

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deb 32-bit

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deb 64-bit

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rpm 32-bit

37BEF345FED4366D94CC8A3245C7835CDF5505102FC4D363EDFAEED86D006FF8

rpm 64-bit

B5ED0D01B40B4F51A77CB0BB955B1ACF7F1FB2A1F3879E27028E37BEF37E0A53

Linux Discovery Supplemental Package

N/A

aix bff

072C70CEF417121B9CAE053B275627E5E6456704E95C4E591437928C5CA617BB

sun4u pkg

4AD18D80388C1D78A382E1C31902B05E301AB4804900462753390222815A8085

i86pc pkg

9EB846DD2C4365CF9914633ADB21DC26BF96E71DAEB997E0BB171BF4E4B01675

Type

Checksum

Upgrading from 16.9 or newer

5D688F009BE130BCFBCC82BEFFE8F8C9ED1388F385F0C6BDE096D63E76D79BC0

Upgrading from 16.8 or older

A6A78344DB965B5CBE3C7D90145D1644CC279164555F07C0650BD1AB25C61E4C

Type

URL

Outlook Add- in

https://addin.pkware.com/v1.2/manifest.xml