We have taken a turn, crossed the river, and are making a pit stop with our Gears 'Little Rock' release. If you haven't been to 'The Rock', we hear the Big Bass Bonanza this June is going to be killer. But if competitive fishing is not your style, you could take a bike ride along the Big Dam Bridge (yes, that's its official name) across the Arkansas River. The bridge is currently the largest bridge in the world that was specifically designed for pedestrian and bicycle use. It connects riders to over 14 miles of scenic riverside trails, and if you go at night, it lights up!
Code name: 'Little Rock'
This release may be on the smaller side, but we believe it will significantly improve the experience of our Gears users. Our development team has new enhancements to our Gears dashboard, and as you may have already noticed, a new logo to go with it!
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Here at OPSWAT we are all about continuous improvement. So while our engineers were working on these new visibility features, our design team helped implement our new logo. The logo, notification, and visibility enhancements are just a few fresh examples of how our teams are constantly working together to bring you a better product.
Increased Visibility for Infections
With our Little Rock release, the client application's infection section now lights up in orange as soon as threats are detected; commanding immediate attention (kind of like the Big Dam Bridge at night). By having the notification explicit on the main dashboard, we can reduce the amount of time it takes for a detected threat to be addressed and quarantined. We believe that the faster a threat is quarantined, the faster we can prevent the malware from spreading to other devices and thereby reducing the vulnerability of the network.
Notification enhancements improve admin monitoring
Increased Visibility for Added and Removed Devices
In addition to the dashboard notification, there is better visibility of devices being added or removed from your Gears account. This allows IT admins to have a clearer overview of device and user activity.We accomplished this by adding two new features to the Device Events Logs:
The first time a new on-demand Gears agent is used, an entry is made in the Device Events logs. Until now these entries were only created for new persistent Gears clients. Now administrators can have the same visibility into on demand instances.
When a device (persistent or on-demand) is cleaned up due to inactivity or data retention limits, a corresponding entry will be made in the Device Events log (read more about this in our Des Moines release).
Unseen devices removed with corresponding log entry
The use of on-demand agents and lost device cleanup allows more accurate license usage and allows you to focus on monitoring and managing the devices that are active in your network; bringing you a more efficient and valuable Gears.
With both the notification and device log enhancements, we are one stop further along in our journey across the United States. If you're just joining us now, download the latest version here or check out our roadmap to find out where we intend on taking Gears next. Who knows, the next stop might be right up your alley.
