What’s new in 5.0

Warning

Before upgrading from version 4.10 or lower, you have to get a new license key. Rollback to the previous version leads to loss of data.

Licensing, management of agents and accounts

  • IP-addresses can be excluded from scanning when installing remotely from the admin panel;

  • indication of both accounts and computers with revoked licenses in the admin panel;

  • flexible export of data to “CSV” from the admin panel for the pages “Computers” and “Accounts” (with the ability to select demanded fields);

  • [fix] Bug with license revoking from users disconnected in AD;

  • if a user got disconnected in AD, logs will have the name of the user and the reason of disconnection;

  • additional logging of info about assigning/revoking licenses and attempts to synchronization with AD.

Reports, fixtures, time tracking

  • New fixtures are added, including:

    • reveal of mouse activity simulation programs;

    • “lockapp” process is excluded from activity calculation;

    • verification of Luhn’s algorithm for Mir and UnionPay cards;

    • a separate policy for capturing “user’s password” and other minor improvements.

  • Adding web-sites/applications into policies from reports and “Analysis – Table”;

  • “Neutral time” column was added to “User activity report for period”, “Summary report” and “Group summary report”4

  • “Default GUI dimension” parameter was moved to report settings;

  • “Combined report” has received extended and structured table columns with the column indicating the assigned schedule;

  • more detailed and convenient notifications for vocabularies and filters with search by content;

  • new setting for reports: expanded or toggled view by default;

  • assigning schedules by “Company” attribute;

  • ability to add or remove fields from “Extended time sheet”;

  • check of the value “Minimum activity time to start workday (sec.)”;

  • configurable parameter for workday end;

  • [fix] Incorrect time tracking calculations if the session is closed after 12AM;

  • calculation and displaying of time spent on remote connection to a workstation;

  • all the policies triggered by an event are now displayed;

  • grouping options for software and hardware inventory reports.

Working with data

  • New attributes for “File” dimension: “Source file name”, “Source file path”, “Source file extension”;

  • “Mail” events received from IMAP-grabber now contain details from user profiles in AD;

  • configuration assignment by threshold triggering;

  • relation of events to the source of file interception; new dimension attributes in the admin panel;

  • “Manager” attribute was added to the “Account” dimension;

  • new filtration element – “Lists” is added. It allows to filter by the dimension set in a list;

  • “Company” field was added to “Control panel” – “Accounts”;

  • screen video recordings get downloaded as a file which name contains metadata (name of the workstation, username, data);

  • [fix] Drill-down to events from messaging graph.

Architecture

  • New role model for access to data;

  • refactoring of StaffCop logs;

  • content parser based on Apache Tika;

  • support for Ubuntu 20.04 for server part;

  • new group of administrators with configurable rights;

  • changes in the principles of working schedules and their assignment to the data;

  • [fix] Id doesn’t get reset after implementing of “Recognition server”.

Security

  • Check the administrator’s password strength when setting it;

  • tracking of login/logout events of system administrators and displaying them in “History of actions”;

  • detailed logging of data export from the admin panel;

  • fixed vulnerabilities found during the number of penetration tests.

UI

  • Application logos are displayed in the event lens;

  • “OS version” field is added to “Control panel -> Computers”;

  • settings of policies are removed from dimension cards;

  • several search queries are simultaneously highlighted in case with regular expression;

  • 2 new interface themes;

  • paging of messaging;

  • bright coloring of the slider against the background of sound track;

  • additional field “Description” for filters and policies;

  • more abilities for searching, sorting and filtering on the “Accounts” page;

  • [fix] Incorrect display of contacts of participants of messaging;

  • ”Cutoff threshold” for anomaly detector was moved to the settings of the report;

  • ability to display on those workstations for which remote control is available;

  • [fix] Drop-down menu goes over the bottom panel on displays with low resolution;

  • [fix] The right panel blinks when the interface gets loaded.

Integrations

  • Ability to import files from PerCO;

  • import data on absence of employees from 1C data sheets into StaffCop calendar;

  • synchronization with AD by several OU;

  • import of an employee’s photo from AD’s field «thumbnailPhoto»;

  • [fix] The maximum number of messages that can be processed by the mail grabber during a single session has been increased.

Misc

  • Users can start/stop monitoring of their workplaces using a tray icon;

  • the ability to automatically create incidents from the pre-set policies;

  • e-mail reports in Excel format;

  • notifications for a group of filters;

  • tips are displayed when cursor is at a regular expression in a filter;

  • interface of the page “Tags and access blocking” has been improved;

  • [fix] E-mail of “admin” account can’t be changed;

  • [fix] Policies “Auto cleanup” and “Event deletion policy” have been improved for the new processing;

  • [fix] One-tine tasks from the Task scheduler are removed if they are finished with errors;

  • [fix] “Delete an object and all its data” – doesn’t revoke a license;

  • [fix] Update the statuses of users to the correct ones;

  • usage of Rust for processing data;

  • notification on any change in hardware configuration.

Linux agent

  • Interception of e-mail from Thunderbird;

  • interception of files sent to printing;

  • monitoring of web-activity in the latest version of Opera;

  • refactoring of agent logs;

  • compatibility with AppArmor;

  • check and disable SELinux at the agent installation phase.

Windows Agent

  • Interception of MS Teams;

  • interception of Bitrix24 Desktop;

  • detection of files cyphered with CryptoPro;

  • blocking of clipboard;

  • display of UUID for USB devices at the moment of connection;

  • interception of Telegram when login with qr-code;

  • new remote installer tool;

  • OS dumps now more easily allow to reveal if the agent was the reason of excessive memory consumption;

  • [fix] Search queries in google.com and youtube.com don’t get tracked in Firefox;

  • [fix] Outcoming emails from Outlook don’t get intercepted in some conditions;

  • [fix] Monitoring of web activity in Chrome, Edge and FireFox for Hebrew;

  • [fix] Errors with web monitoring in Yandex browser;

  • unified mechanism of installation of agent’s drivers and transferring them to WDK10;

  • comodia proxy was removed from Agent;

  • agent protection with s password.