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Netskope Version 81 Release Notes

Summary: This article contains release notes for version 81 of Netskope.

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Article Content


Symptoms

Release notes for version 81 of Netskope.


Affected Products:

Netskope

Affected Operating Systems:

Windows
Mac
iOS
Android


Cause

Not applicable.

Resolution

This update of Netskope contains New Features and Enhancements, New Resource Types Supported in Continuous Security Assessment, Known Issues, and Fixed Issues. For more information, click the appropriate topic.

Note: For release notes of other versions of Netskope, reference Netskope Release Notes.
Category Feature Detailed Description and Benefits
CASB Inline Protection AWS EKS Browser based connector support New Support added for the EKS application for the browser.
CASB Inline Protection Add missing content-types to universal connectors We have added additional content types for download activity for better detection of malware and DLP.
CASB Inline Protection AWS EKS CLI and SDK's connector enhancement Added connector support for EKS application for CLI and SDK tools and Browser. With this release, users can now create sanctioned and unsanctioned based policies.
CASB Inline Protection Added connector support for the Amazon EKS application Added Instance support for EKS and KubeCTL applications using API based Synthetic approach.
With this release, users can create instance-based policies for EKS and KubeCTL applications.
CASB Inline Protection Inline policy support for additional activities for Adobe Creative Cloud and Document Cloud With this release, we now support new activity 'Share' for Adobe Creative Cloud and Document Cloud.
Data Protection DLP Support for Chile In this release, some of entities specific to Chile, such as addresses, phone numbers, and taxpayer identification numbers have been introduced.
These entities help detection of country-specific PII.
Data Protection Generic DLP Entities In this release, some generic entities have been introduced.
These entities can be used to detect generic identification numbers such as customer account number. These entities come with built-in validation to ensure that consecutive numbers or duplicate digits are not detected.
Directory Services Netskope Adapters The Netskope Adapter (NS Adapter) has been tested to ensure compatibility with the current cloud platform. Its version number has been updated to confirm this compatibility. No other changes have been made to the NS Adapter in this release.
NG SWG / CASB Explicit Proxy on Chrome version 86.0.4240.183 Using Google Apps with Cloud Explicit Proxy (for remote users) requires adding www.googleapis.com, to your browser or PAC file, to go direct as that URL does not contain the Netskope cookie.
NG SWG / CASB Restrict Explicit Proxy Allow-listed IP Addresses from /24 to /32 It was previously possible to configure broad ranges of IP Addresses for the Cloud Explicit Proxy Allow-List.
To prevent customers from inadvertently configuring broad ranges that they may not own or control, this is now limited to being a single IP Address per configuration.
NG SWG / CASB Support for HTTP Headers in Inline Policies To augment the Security Cloud Platform current capabilities, HTTP headers are now available in Real-time Protection policies for further granular controls.
NG SWG / CASB Default policy creation for new accounts For newly provisioned accounts, an SSL Decrypt Policy to bypass Microsoft App Suite is now created by default.
The same policy is visible in the UI under Policies > SSL Decryption.
NG SWG / CASB Policy lookup based on telemetry and referrer apps In many instances, SaaS apps have embedded websites that are either telemetry apps (for example, tracking apps) or other integrated SaaS apps (for example, Gmail integrated with Salesforce).
Default Netskope policy lookup logic swaps the actual app name with the referrer app when doing policy match if the referrer app is a managed app and has a connector present. This sometimes may not reflect the intention of the user.
With this new logic (if enabled), we now consider both referrer and host apps for this kind of traffic and match the policies that are configured for both the apps (in the order they are configured.)
Note: Contact support to enable this feature in your tenant. Reference How to Get Support for Netskope.
NG SWG / CASB Support SSL bypass in proxy chaining and explicit proxy access methods With this release, we have added SSL Decrypt Policies for proxy chaining and explicit proxy access methods.
NG SWG / CASB Silent Block Feature Expanded With this release, Silent block can be configured for all Categories, Apps, and Instances.
Netskope for IaaS Improved Rule listing page with new UI Rule listing and profile listing now appear together in a common page.
Netskope for IaaS CSA Policy updates Improved Policy Wizard with new UI.
Netskope for IaaS API compliance standards fields update With this release, the following updates are added to the API compliance standards:
  • The API response contains compliance standard details under each alert
  • The API query accepts compliance standard as a filter, supporting both eq and in operators.
Steering macOS DNS TCP Support The Netskope Client on Big Sur now handles DNS over TCP.
Steering Support Fail Close for Big Sur 11.0 The Netskope Client now supports "Fail Closed" on macOS Big Sur.
Web UI New Top Risky Users by User Confidence Index widget New Behavior Analytics widget is available in the home page widget library.
Web UI Compromised Credential enhancement With this release, admins can turn on or off the Compromised Credential feature using a flag. The default is ON.
If admins have security concerns (for example, GDPR violation), contact support to request to turn OFF the flag.
Note: For more information, reference How to Get Support for Netskope.
Cloud Provider Entity Attribute Changes
AWS None None
Azure None None
GCP None Instance entity has the following new attribute:
  • Firewallrule
Issue Number Category Feature Issue Description
106037 Steering Fail close: Command-line parameters not overriding the web UI configuration This command-line flag disables fail close for a particular user, overwriting the web UI fail close enable flag.
The following options are implemented for command-line parameter installation.
fail-close=disable - this command explicitly disables failclose
fail-close=no-npa - this command excludes NPA traffic when fail closed
116527 Web UI Ransomware Encrypted File Timing Out The web UI is not correctly displaying the success or failure when restoring ransomware encrypted files.
Issue Number Category Feature Issue Description
111475 Netskope for IaaS Firewall rules are added as external entity reference for GCP Compute Instance. The applicable firewall rules are selected on the basis of sourceRanges, destinationRanges, sourceTags, targetTags, sourceServiceAccounts, targetServiceAccounts.
Indirect rule evaluation is possible using the existing FirewallRule DOM and entity.
115815 Netskope for IaaS Azure change in asset type and category Azure Functions now show up under Compute in the Inventory Page of the Cloud Infrastructure.
91751 Netskope for IaaS AWS CLI Uploading the local file to an S3 bucket is failing with the new CLI version.
114570 NG SWG / CASB Google Meet Disconnection Duplicate SYN packet after TCP Handshake is not handled properly.
113903 NG SWG / CASB Policy 3.0 Web UI After migrating policies to Policy 3.0, there are some issues and general slowness for some accounts.
112479 NG SWG / CASB Reverse Proxy from unmanaged devices Run the API to enable the feature for scrambling, to avoid bypassing reverse proxy post authentication.
107714 Steering NPA Fail Close connection status behavior When the Netskope client has fail closed, the status of the private access might be shown as "connected" in the client configuration window from the tray icon even though the private apps are blocked due to fail close.
112144 Steering Probe IP Mandatory for GREGW GREGW node responds to ICMP probes/keep-alives only when the Destination IP value in the inner IP packet matches the GREGW Probe-IP that is listed in the GREGW UI dashboard corresponding to the DC. Otherwise, the probe packets are dropped by the GREGW.
114480 Steering Google Meet Disconnection Improvements Google Meet and Google Hangouts are not accessible on-premises.
115310 Web UI Instance Detection Issue Google Hangout Chat instance detection is not working properly for upload activity.

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Article Properties


Affected Product

Netskope

Last Published Date

19 Dec 2022

Version

9

Article Type

Solution