Minor release of Safetica ONE 10.1 brings advanced content inspection with OCR for macOS and gets further enhancements. This version is also ready to be integrated with Netwrix Data Classification.

Now on macOS

New, efficient and less intrusive content inspection with smart pre-scanning and OCR features in Safetica ONE (see details in 10.0 release blog post) has arrived for endpoints with macOS. Organizations with macOS devices in their IT environment can now inspect content that leaves endpoints through specific channels. Safetica ONE monitors selected channels and logs sensitive data in DLP logs (reports).

Better stability and performance

In general, content inspection in Safetica ONE has additional improvements in stability and performance. One of the main components of content inspection is OCR (Optical Character Recognition), which helps to identify sensitive data in images and scanned PDF documents. In this release we are adding a new settings option to deactivate OCR on selected endpoints. This can be useful when there are very slow performing/low-specs computers in a customer’s environment.

Improved UX, layouts, metadata security and other changes

Improvements in the UX for sensitive data discovery in Safetica Management Console makes it easy to run discovery tasks on all local drives and scan them on-demand.

We also revised the layout for data discovery results to enable further compatibility with Netwrix Data Classification. The individual data categories in the data discovery results or detected in file and DLP logs can be now visualized in new charts, in order to provide a super-fast way to understand what kind of data are stored in or moving through your environment.

 

Besides content classification, Safetica ONE also allows a user-based or context classification approach that requires permanent metadata. The results of classification are saved in files’ metadata so that DLP policies are reliably enforced. In this release, we introduced protection that prevents users from manually removing metadata from classified files.

Our team is continually improving and expanding the templates that facilitate sensitive data discovery and classification. From now on you can use new templates for Brazilian Identity card numbers and JAR social identification numbers.

We also improved Windows security compatibility (Device Guard, Credential Guard, Memory Isolation), Active Directory sync optimizations and some website categorization technology improvements.

First results of Netwrix partnership: Improved data discovery

The strategic partnership with Netwrix announced in November 2021 has shown its first results. Netwrix customers can leverage the same data classification rules across their network/cloud storage and now also on endpoints. The new partnership also brings them DLP and insider threat protection features. We’re working on further integration, which will also bring additional options to the Safetica customer base.

Audit company PP&C needed to protect its clients’ sensitive data. After implementing Safetica solution, PP&C is GDPR compliant, protects data and can monitor and improve company effectiveness.

Problem: Ensure LGPD compliance and data protection

PP&C provides audit, consulting and accounting services and as such need to offer the best possible security for its clients’ information as well as its own. The company also needed to comply with GDPR, and therefore started its search for a DLP system that was able to meet any needs that arise.

With Safetica, PP&C can now analyze all users’ computers, primarily their data manipulation, and understand their access behavior. The company can adapt the system with the necessary controls to implement the new Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD), in addition to updating all standards and IT procedures.

Results

The company is compliant with LGPD. PP&C`s Channel Communications Control, which transfers customer data to electronic environments outside the company, will only work when the data is adequately protected. PP&C management gets weekly summary reports on users’ internet activities, use of applications,and printed documents. Monitoring files on the file server helps to better understand and improve the use of company assets.

Furthermore, PP&C management can be immediately notified if a security incident occurs.

We are releasing new features and improvements to our SaaS product, Safetica NXT, continuously. Do you want to know what major changes brought last months for end-customers and MSP? 

New features for end-customers 

Improved content scanning technology 

You can now fine-tune the pre-configured data categories using keywords. With their help, you can decrease the number of false positives, or extend the scope of any data category by creating custom definitions with your own keywords. 

New version for Windows delivers significant improvements to the auditing process and content scanning capabilities. Safetica NXT now scans only specific, best-practice file types (for the complete list, see our Knowledge base).  

Enhanced USB devices and Email channels overview 

The Workspace section now also provides information about the USB devices and Email channels, through that the data flows.  Thanks to a new module aimed at Emails, Safetica NXT can now distinguish which emails are sent within a virtual “safe zone” and evaluate those as less risky. The purpose of this feature is to treat internal emails sent within the organization as less risky than those which are leaving the company. 

Enhanced tooltips for risky events in Data security > Overview with more detailed info about criteria related to detection policy rules and smart scanning.

Improved weekly report 

Our weekly report delivered in your inbox got an additional boost in terms of new data and features. Particularly: 

• Overview of risky events amount divided by their severity. 
• New section dedicated to protected users (employees) and their risk level 
• Additional context for detected risks and users 
• Info about trends (how data changed compared to last week)
• We also released new design and branding. 

New features for MSP 

Safetica HUB: Central management  

You can now manage access into the Safetica HUB and Safetica NXT via a new Settings section, with an overview of all created accounts and their status. In Dashboard you find the crucial info in the form of tiles, such as the total number of your registered customers, number of enrolled endpoints, secured users, or amount of threats across all your customer base (in the last 30 days).   

When registering new customers, you can select the desired license type (demo, trial, full, or NFR). The respective record is created automatically in Safetica backend and no further communication with the Safetica team is needed. Info about license type is displayed in the customer overview for every registered or new customer. 

Customer role 

You can now give direct access to Safetica NXT to selected customer representatives via a special Customer role. The customer will be able to use all the features of Safetica NXT and browse the data from their company. They will not be able to access Safetica NXT of other customers nor the multi-tenant Safetica HUB. 

You can find the release notes here