Product Update - August 8th, 2022

New Features & Enhancements

• First Upgraded Users for Client Upgrade: For the Automatic Silent Upgrade and User Upgrade policy for Windows and macOS Clients, you can define a group of users that are the first to receive the Client upgrade to the new version. You can monitor these users and review the new Client behavior. Read more.
• Enhanced DLP Support for OpenOffice Files: DLP Data Control Rules (Security > Application Control) now supports OpenOffice files as an out-of-the-box file type. Read more.
• Exporting Events and Users Requires Admin Editor Permissions: Now only Cato Management Application admins with Editor permissions can export events or users.
  • Exporting events – Monitoring > Events (read more)
  • Exporting users – Access > Users (read more)
• Update to the Users Screen: Starting on August 14^th, 2022, the Users screen (Access > Users) will also show the following information: User Principal Name and Authentication Method. Read more.

Cato SDP Client Releases

• Windows Client v5.4: Starting the week of August 7th, we are planning to start the gradual release of the Windows Client version 5.4. This version includes:
  • Improved error messages in the Client for SDP users which better explain connectivity issues
  • Performance enhancements
  • Also includes infrastructure for upcoming features
  • Bug fixes:
    • When the Client is in Office Mode, it now uses the PAC file of the local system instead of the PAC file defined in the Cato Management Application

PoP Announcements

• Bogota, Colombia: A new Cato PoP is now available in Bogota

Security Updates

• IPS Signatures: 
  • Malware Electron Bot
  • Malware LockBit 3.0
  • CVE-2022-32275
  • CVE-2022-29499
  • CVE-2022-26133
  • CVE-2022-25546
  • CVE-2022-24497
  • CVE-2022-24491
  • CVE-2022-23270
  • CVE-2021-44864
  • CVE-2021-35211
  • CVE-2016-6366
  • CVE-2015-2051
  • Google Hacking Database exploits (Enhancment)
• Application Database: Updated app definitions in the Cato Cloud:
  • Show the SaaS apps in Monitoring > Cloud Apps Catalog
• Application Control Policy: New granular actions added to these apps:
  • ClickUp - Download file, Change status, Assign, Upload file, Create task
  • Confluence - Edit, Share, Post (Publish)
  • Exavault - Download, Upload
  • Hubspot - Export
  • Monday - Add Person To Item, Change Task Status, Create Task
  • Wrike - Upload, Download
• Data Loss Prevention:
  • OpenOffice Documents (New Group):
    • OpenDocument Spreadsheet(ods,ots)
    • OpenDocument Presentation(odp,otp)
    • OpenDocument Text(odt,ott)

Knowledge Base Updates

• Monitoring Users with a Snapshot