Article Number: 000189607
Release notes for version 87 of Netskope.
Affected Products:
Netskope
Affected Operating Systems:
Windows
Mac
iOS
Android
This update of Netskope contains New Features and Enhancements, Known Issues, and Fixed Issues. For more information, click the appropriate topic.
| Category | Feature | Detailed Description and Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Analytics | New dimension added for Network events | With this release, we have added a new publisher_cn field to Network events.This field contains the Common Name of Netskope Private Access Publisher that is associated with the event. |
| Advanced Analytics | New dimension added for Netskope data centers | With this release, we have added a new dimension netskope_pop_location.This field provides the location of the Netskope data center through which the traffic was routed. |
| API Protection | Support for ServiceNow Quebec release | Netskope has now validated support for ServiceNow Quebec release for Netskope API Data Protection. |
| CASB Inline Protection | DLP support for Google Calendar invites | With this release, we have added DLP support for Create, Edit, and Send activities using Google Calendar. Users can send confidential information using the description field. Consider the following ways to add or edit the description field:
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| CASB Inline Protection | Planview LeanKit enhancement | Traffic for the Leankit application is enhanced to cover the following activities:
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| 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 | Online PDF converter category | Netskope has introduced a new Web Category called File Converter that allows customers to block data exfiltration attempts using online pdf converters. |
| NG SWG / CASB | SkopeIT enabled for SAML and AuthProxy by default | SkopeIT events will now provide access control details for unmanaged device access by SAML/AuthProxy. In addition, log in attempts using a reverse proxy access method are also available in SkopeIT. |
| NG SWG / CASB | New Web categories | Netskope is reusing some of the existing SWG categories that are listed below for CASB application mapping and categorization. These categories will now appear in the CASB account for the Netskope research team to internally categorize CCI-based applications.
Note: Currently, these new mappings and categorization are for Netskope internal categorization. Therefore, you cannot apply them for activity selection or policy actions.
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| SSPM | SkopeIT Alerts name changes for SSPM | On the SkopeIT Alerts page, each alert's details now include the following name changes:
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| Steering | Netskope Client Golden Release | Release 87 is the current golden release of the Netskope Client. |
| Steering | Client enhancement to use all external / static configured proxies to intercept traffic | The Netskope Client now sets interception filters for all configured proxy interoperation destinations set in the steering configuration. Successful health check of the configured proxies is no longer required. |
| Threat Protection | Standard / Basic Threat Protection license updated | This feature enables new actions from the Malware page for detected malware files as follows:
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| Issue Number | Category | Feature | Issue Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 128275 | CASB Inline Protection | Updated file size constraint for download activity | File size constraints for download activity visible in the UI are not working. |
| 131768 | NG SWG / CASB | WebUpload Activity for Web Categories | A new activity called "WebUpload" is visible in the UI for Web Categories. However, this activity is currently not active and should not be used in policies. |
| 131106 | NG SWG / CASB | Download file size policy | Inline policy with file size is not properly applied to the applicable flows for download activity. |
| Issue Number | Category | Feature | Issue Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 122439 | API Protection | SharePoint API Protection | Fixed an issue that is related to detection of SharePoint sites. This reduces the time that is taken to detect newly created SharePoint sites. |
| 124532 | API Protection | SharePoint API Protection | Fixed an issue that is related to API Protection for Salesforce, where "suspended" users would not show up correctly in the product UI. |
| 124913 | API Protection | Box API Protection | Fixed an issue in the API Protection for Box, where files owned by a "Service Account" were not listed even though internal collaborators had access. |
| 120190 | CASB Inline Protection | Removed Sync activity from Amazon S3 app connector | When a block policy for Amazon S3 sync activity is in place, it is not blocking the sync operation even though there is a Block event. |
| 112112 | Data Protection | Special characters from dictionary not detected properly | With this fix, we have added a flag to enable characterset encoding for plain text files. |
| 130089 | IaaS | AWS, Azure, and GCP instance behavior change | AWS, Azure, and GCP instance name check any forward and backward slashes in the instance name field and restrict the instance creation. |
| 113769 | NG SWG / CASB | Microsoft OneDrive for Business instance IDs | Some users see two different instance IDs for Microsoft OneDrive for Business. With this fix, these are now combined. |
| 130191 | SSPM | Security Posture page visible for certain users | Admin users with roles that only include access to Reports and not Security Posture can no longer view the API-enabled Protection > Compliance > Security Posture page. |
| 125616 | Steering | Netskope client disconnects | The Netskope client disconnects the tunnel when users lock their computer screens. |
| 128293 | Steering | Apps are not loading properly | Netskope client activates its internal module call proxy manager to manage proxy destined network if Netskope client detects the proxy is in network. With recent changes, the Netskope client removes proxy module under certain conditions which leads to the problem. With this release, this is now fixed. |
| 125608 | Steering | Netskope client service crash | With this release, the Netskope client no longer crashes at boot time if the explicit proxy is configured at Web UI. |
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