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PowerSC 2.2 Release Notification

By Debbie Quick posted Thu November 09, 2023 03:20 PM

  

What’s new in PowerSC 2.2:

In the 2.2 release, we have added many exciting enhancement to IBM PowerSC:

Compliance profile updates:

  • The CIS compliance profile has been added for IBM i 7.4 to provide enhanced security with additional hardening of the system.
  • The CIS compliance profile for RHEL 8 has been updated with hundreds of changes to the rules which will provide enhanced security with additional hardening of the system.

Security updates:

  • Improvements in the configuration management of profiles show custom profile versions on each endpoint, with an option to automatically push updates or deletions.
  • Performance enhancements for reports and events will improve CPU utilization and page loading times dramatically for large volumes.
  • The discrete mode option improves the PowerSC GUI experience by giving users more choices in how to display or hide unmanaged endpoints.
  • TNC Patch Management enhancements will download the latest service pack and all security patches related to that service pack, which improves the automated handling of security updates for AIX users.
  • PowerSC UI enhancements have been made to handle version differences between the PowerSC server and endpoint agents.

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) updates:

  • PASE support will allow IBM i 7.3 and above users to run PMFA without needing to leave the IBM i space.
  • MFA enhancements for user factor reset will improve time based one-time password (TOTP) reset behavior by streamlining the user experience with provisioning and re-provisioning.

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