Symantec Data Center Security (DCS) provides complete protection, hardening and monitoring for physical and virtual servers across a wide variety of Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems. Full application control, application isolation, administrator privilege control, patch mitigation provide protection against the zero-day threats in today's heterogeneous private/public cloud data centers. Linux protection leverages a single agent offering antimalware, hardening and monitoring technologies.
DCS 6.9.3 is an important release for our core customers and would not have been a success without the cohesive effort of all the cross functional teams. Congratulations and thank you to all those involved!
Release Highlights:
- Agent Configuration Tool Enhancements:
- Feature Status Reporting now includes: Anti-Malware, Prevention and Real time - FIM feature.
- Display current security group of agents.
- Moving agents to a security group is now allowed only when the agent is in the Default Security Group.
- Additional intervals provided in Windows Policy Override Tool.
- Linux Hardening Efficacy improvements in default prevention policy:
- New policy options for preventing task scheduling, tampering of systemd service configuration and credential dumping, to protect workloads from threats using these techniques to achieve persistence and execute malware.
- New Platform Support:
- Management Server Enhancements:
- Event page enhancements include improvement in event monitoring performance on the queries and exports of the Advanced Search when specifying an asset and event date range filter.
- Added a date-only filtering field and functionality for the Advanced Search on the events page to facilitate improved performance for customers with 100+ million records.
- Improved query performance on the System Status and Event Trend charts for customers with 100+ million records.
- Other Updates:
- Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) management functionality is detached from the Unified Management Console (UMC) and will be available in the consolidated console in future releases.
- DCS Server evaluation install now comes with SQL 2019 Express edition.
- DCS Server/Console is only supported on Windows 2016 or later.
- DCS Server production installation is only supported on SQL Server 2012 or later.
- Customer issues addressed -
- 3rd party libraries updated
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