End of life notification

This section contains notifications for upcoming termination of apps, features or programmatic access (APIs):

Termination of v1 REST API support

Why are we doing this?

• Centrify introduced the v2 enrollment APIs with the 17.2 release to support setting of additional resource-related information during enrollment. This new version is a superset of the original v1 enrollment APIs. As the Centrify Agent for Linux and Mac agents have been using the v2 APIs since 17.2, we are now planning to disable the old v1 enrollment APIs in 18.10.

Who will be affected?

• Customers who deploy Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac agents.
• Customers who develop their applications using the following REST APIs: ServerAgent/Register, ServerAgent/Enroll, ServerAgent/EnableFeatures

What steps do I need to take?

• If you deploy Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac agents, upgrade to the latest version of Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac.

If you develop applications using the REST APIs:

• Change your code to call the corresponding V2  REST API (e.g.,  ServerAgent/RegisterV2, ServerAgent/EnrollV2, ServerAgent/EnableFeaturesV2).

What happens if I do nothing?  What errors or issues am I likely to see?

• If you have deployed older versions of Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac agents, existing enrolled agents will continue to work, however new features will not be available.
• After the Centrify Identity Platform is upgraded to 18.10, once the agent is unenrolled it cannot re-enroll again.  You MUST upgrade the agent to re-enroll.
• If you have developed applications using the REST APIs, the REST API call will fail with an error.
  
  

New Features - Centrify Application Services   

MFA Redirect

• Allows  admins  or  users  with  multiple  accounts  potentially  in  different  domains  to  ensure  that  he  or  she  can  use  MFA  from  one  account,  namely  the  one  they  have  logged  into  the  Centrify  app  on  their  mobile  phone.
• Administrators  can  redirect  MFA  notifications  for  a  given  account  to  be  sent  to  another  account.
• For the account where the redirect is enabled and set, all subsequent notifications will be sent to the account specified.
• The user should be able to use an OTP code or Mobile Authenticator from the phone associated with the account that has been targeted for MFA notifications.
• Administrators can use policy to allow end users to be able to set their own MFA redirection.
• If enabled for a given user or set of users, the user will find the option to configure MFA redirect in the user portal under the Account page under the information about their phone.

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Centrify Browser Extension Enhancements

• Apps that leverage the Centrify Browser Extension can be launched directly from the browser's CBE menu: 
• To access applications from CBE:
  1. Install Centrify Browser extension for your browser.
  2. Sign-in with your username and password.
  3. Click on the CBE to select applications to launch.

All 4 major browsers supported (IE, Chrome, Mozilla & Safari). 

SAML Script Editor

• The  editor  now  includes  inline  hints,  autocomplete,  and  onscreen  help  to  make  it  easier  for    customers  to  write  SAML  scripts.
• SAML  script  methods  appear  in  hints  and  can  be  used  with  autocomplete.
• On-screen  documentation  of  methods  and  variables  is  provided.

DevOps Application Category

• This  new  applications  category  in  the  apps  catalog  enables  customers  to  easily  set  up  SSO  for  popular  DevOps  CI/CD  apps.
• To  add  DevOps  applications  to  your  app  catalog:
  1. Login  to  Centrify  portal  as  administrator.
  2. Navigate  to  Apps  tab  and  click  “Add  Web  Apps”.
  3. DevOps  category  will  be  show  in  the  list  of  categories.

AWS CLI Utilities

• Centrify now offers Python and PowerShell CLI utilities for both admins and users to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) by leveraging Centrify Identity Services.
• Customers  have  the  option  to  download  the  AWS  utilities  from  the  user  portal  under  application  settings.
• A  new  tab  was  also  added  to  the  download  page  in  the  Admin  Portal  called  “CLI  Tools”  from  where  the  AWS  CLI  tools  can  be  downloaded.
• Official  documentation  to  setup  and  operate  also  available.

Time-based Workflow for Mobile and Desktop

• Customers  can  now  reduce  risk  by  requesting  and  granting  access  to  apps  only  during  a  given  time  window.
• Under workflow tab in the Apps section, you can select “Windowed”assignment type and specify start and end times.
• Approver can either accept requested window or modify.

The following catalog apps have been updated:

• Jira Server (SAML)

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services   

Delegated Administration

• Customers  can  now  implement  policy  sets  for  endpoints  and  mobile  devices  ensuring  that  endpoints  /  mobile  devices  are  being  added  to  and  removed  from  sets  dynamically,  based  on  changes  to  the  attributes  of  the  device.
• An  Administrator  can  define  specific  policy  sets  by  device  attributes  that  would  automatically  update  if  any  of  those  attributes  were  to  change.
• For  example,  Macs  can  have  a  specific  policy  and  if  that  endpoint  were  to  turn  off  FileVault  the  policy  would  be  updated  automatically.

• The Administrator can then go into Endpoints, select the dynamic set and see the endpoints that meet that query.

Office 365 Conditional Access

• An Administrator can limit access to Exchange o365 by recognizing whether the device is recognized as managed by the Centrify MDM solution.

• Conditional  access  for  apps  is  an  existing  feature  and  works  for  all  apps/browsers  that  support  cert  based  authentication.
• This  release  adds  cert  based  authentication  for  the  Outlook  app.
• Including  the  ability  to  install  a  ZSO  certificate  on  a  Samsung  device  to  support  this  feature.

New Features - Centrify API Services

New Documentation Updates (available 10/6/2018)

• AWS CLI installation guide: https://developer.centrify.com/docs/aws-cli
• AWS Powershell Utility v10: https://developer.centrify.com/docs/aws-powershell-utility-v10
• Authorization (Auth) Code Flow: https://developer.centrify.com/v1.2/docs/auth-code-flow

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• To improve security, Forgot Password now completes the entire forgot password process for users that do not exist (CC-59842).
• The App Gateway tab now appears for on-premises SAML apps for users with read-only administrator permission. Previously read/write administrator permission was required (CC-62356).
• TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are now enabled by default on devices running Android 4.1 – 4.4 (CC-62436).
• The manager field can now be set for a normal SCIM user as well as an enterprise user (CC-60545).
• Third party VPN profiles now show correctly on the security tab (CC-62281).
• Mobile applications are now no longer installed automatically when associated with a role created prior to release 18.7 and automatic deploy is unchecked (CC-61763).
• Enrollment via QR code now works for iOS 12 (CC-61793).
• The Centrify mobile app for iOS no longer repeatedly prompts for a PIN (CC-61732).
• Mobile devices are now correctly tagged as corporate when the serial number is imported after the device is enrolled (CC-60193).
• Devices no longer unenroll unexpectedly when the device incorrectly reports the Centrify mobile app is uninstalled while it is in the update process (CC-61044).
• The change password tab no longer shows in client settings after the enrolled user has been locked (CC-60890).
• On Privilege Access Service workflow, the default time bounding is now updated after being changed by approver 1 (CC-59858).
• The discovery history page for Privilege Access Service now loads while a system discovery job is running (CC-61359).

Changes for HF1

• Connector LDAP queries for custom attributes are improved (CC-62898)

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

End of life notification

This section contains notifications for upcoming termination of apps, features or programmatic access (APIs):

Termination of v1 REST API support

• Why are we doing this?
  Centrify introduced the v2 enrollment APIs with the 17.2 release to support setting of additional resource-related information during enrollment.  This new version is a superset of the original v1 enrollment APIs. As the Centrify Agent for Linux and Mac agents have been using the v2 APIs since 17.2, we are now planning to disable the old v1 enrollment APIs in 18.10.
  
• Who will be affected?
  • Customers who deploy Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac agents.
  • Customers who develop their applications using the following REST APIs: ServerAgent/Register, ServerAgent/Enroll, ServerAgent/EnableFeatures
    
• What steps do I need to take?
  • If you deploy Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac agents, upgrade to the latest version of Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac.
  • If you develop applications using the REST APIs:
    • Change your code to call the corresponding V2  REST API (e.g.,  ServerAgent/RegisterV2, ServerAgent/EnrollV2, ServerAgent/EnableFeaturesV2).
    • Contact Centrify Support
      
• What happens if I do nothing?  What errors or issues am I likely to see?
  • If you have deployed older versions of Centrify Agent for Linux/Mac agents, existing enrolled agents will continue to work, however new features will not be available.
    • After the Centrify Identity Platform is upgraded to 18.10, once the agent is unenrolled it cannot re-enroll again.  You MUST upgrade the agent to re-enroll.
  • If you have developed applications using the REST APIs, the REST API call will fail with an error.
    
    

New Features - Centrify Application Services   

Dome9 SAML App in the App Catalog

• Dome9 delivers full visibility, control and faster time to protection as organizations scale in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud environments.
• A new SAML App for Dome9 has been added to Centrify's App Catalog, simplifying Dome9 integration for SSO.

Password Complexity and History Enhancements

• New Password History Policy ensures that passwords can only be changed after a minimum configured password age (default is 0 days).
• Self-Service Password Reset Policy limits the number of forgotten password resets within a time window (default is 10 days).

Centrify Browser Extension Enhancements

• The settings tab within the Centrify Browser Extension now has the following abilities:
  • Sign In
  • Set preference to open apps in new tab
  • Configure the portal host name
  • Export Diagnostics logs

The following apps have been added to the catalog:

• Dome9 (SAML)

The following apps have been updated:

• Brainstorm QuickHelp (SAML)
• Eat Club (User / Password)
• Cognology (SAML)

The following apps have been renamed:

• Ace of Sales --> Outstand

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• • With self-hosted Infrastructure Service, if there is an existing database folder prior to a restore operation, it is renamed and the restored data will be placed in a new folder that has the correct database folder name (CC-60616).
  • Apostrophes are now correctly handled in email addresses in workflows (CC-61544).
  • The inbound provisioning sync report no longer shows UnexpectedUserSyncException when synching AD users. You must update to the 18.8 connector in order to use the revised code (CC-60349).
  • Mobile apps marked for Automatic Install in the Admin Portal are now shown as “Recommended” on mobile devices rather than “Optional” (CC-60865).
  • When enrolling an Android device in Android for Work DO mode, checksum errors are no longer seen (CC-56928).
  • The “Uninstall this app if the app is unassigned from the user” policy has been revised to prevent unexpected automatic uninstall of apps from mobile devices (CC-60347).
  • SCIM provisioning now allows users to be added to Salesforce (CC-60678).
  • The sysadmin role no longer has Automation Deploy and Run permissions by default for all apps (CC-60135, CC-59392).
  • The timestamp for an iOS device’s location is now correctly updated after using “Find Now” in the User Portal, even if the device has not changed location since the last shown location (CC-59992).
  • SAML metadata import now works on IE (CC-54410).
  • It is now possible to upload SP metadata XML to a SAML app (CC-58762).
  • On older Android devices shortcuts are now still available after switching to kiosk mode (CC-60958).
  • With mobile devices, when there are multiple approvers for a workflow, prior approvers in the chain are shown on the approval screen for later approvers (CC-59832).
  • The connector now correctly determines the Active Directory forest based on the forest it was registered against, not the forest that the user registering the connector was logged in against (CC-59922).
  • Users with read-only admin permission can now view APNS details and VPP settings page for iOS (CC-60743).

Changes for hot fix 1.

• • Android 9 devices can now be successfully enrolled (CC-61936, CISSUP-4347).
  • Apostrophes are now correctly handled in email addresses in workflows (CC-61544).
  • URLs are re-added for catalog and custom SAML apps for Federation (CC-62009, CISSUP-4358).
  • The CreateUsers API has been extended to add ExtData (extended data attributes) functionality (CC-61830).
  • The domain account can now be entered for the “Port Scan” type’s discovery profile for Centrify Privilege Access Service (CC-61908).
  • Error now prompted when an invalid password is entered for an administrative account in the domain settings page for Centrify Privilege Access Service (CC-61585).
  • Error now prompted when the password for an administrative account is set by a user that does not have “Add Account” permission for Centrify Privilege Access Service (CC-61170).

Changes for hot fix 2.

• • Slow API response times issue has been improved (CISSUP-4366).
  • Outlook stops prompting for zso and becomes unmanaged preventing login on iOS and Android devices after user password change (CISSUP-4356).
  • Loading time for admin dashboards has been improved (CISSUP-4289).
  • A configuration has been added for limiting the amount of data shown in a dashboard (CC-62491).
  • TcpRelay BeginWriteWithStream is updated for using the correct stream in all cases (CC-62446).
  • Resolves issue with AsyncTcpConnection, causing TcpRelay read exceptions and reconnects (CC-62406).
  • Resolves an issue on iOS devices where user credentials are not updated resulting in MSFT Authenticator error after a user performs password change (CC-62289).
  • Resolves error 'Download failed(HTTP result 500: internal server error)' when install munkiimport apps/iOS/Android inhouse apps (CC-62186).

Changes for hot fix 3.

• • Additional improvements have been added to address slow API response times (CISSUP-4407).
  • Performance improvements have been added for reloading user role membership with a large number of direct users when viewing user details in the Admin Portal (CC-62484. 
  • Issue related to backend stale cache error is now resolved (CC-62573).

Changes for hot fix 4.

• • Additional improvements have been added to address slow API response (CISSUP-4168).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

New Features - Centrify Application Services   

SAP SuccessFactors: Support for In-bound provisioning

• Seamless Provisioning of user information from SAP SuccessFactors into ActiveDirectory
• Configurable Provisioning Rules that enable:
  
  • Explicit Mapping of attributes between SAP SuccessFactors and AD
  • Specifying AD group in which user can be created
  • Selective Provisioning of all users or a subset (business Unit)
  • Periodic full sync or incremental syncs
  • Customizable Attribute Mapping via Scripts
• Deeper insight into provisioning status via Job Reports

Delegated Administration for Apps via Sets

• Ability to create a set of Apps (or delete) through the Admin portal by either selecting Apps manually, or via a dynamic script

   

• Ability to specify permissions for a user, group or role to Grant, View, Edit and Delete the Set of Apps

   

• Ability to review recent activity on a set

The following apps have been updated:

• Sydney Morning Herald (User name / Password)
• JIRA Server (SAML)
• Webex (User name / Password)
• DocuSign (User name / Password)

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

Delegated Administration for Endpoints via Sets

• Endpoint administrators can now create and manage custom sets of Endpoints, beyond the built-in sets
• Assign policies to admin-defined sets of Endpoints
• Ability to specify permissions for a user, group or role to Grant, View, Edit and Delete sets of Endpoints
• Note: For this release, sets of Endpoints will not include dynamic sets defined as the result of a query

Certificate Auto Renewal for iOS, Android & Mac

• Certificates are now automatically renewed
  
• Effective for all mobile policies leveraging certificates including Email, WiFi, VPN and ZSO certificate
  
• Renewal request starts when 20% of the certificate lifetime is left
  

Time Bound Workflow Approval on Mobile

• Workflow approval for Infrastructure Services now supports time bound access
• Previously, approvers could only approve or deny access permanently
• Now approvers can provided a window of time where access is allowed, matching what can be done via the browser
• Flexibility to choose permanent or windowed access regardless of the request type

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services 

Privileged Access Service

Centrify Agent for Linux – CoreOS Support

• Centrify Agent for Linux now supports CoreOS. Key capabilities include:
  
  • Brokered Authentication
  • AAPM
  • Ability to register the container directly on Privileged Access Service
• This feature will be released with samples via Centrify GitHub to facilitate demos, evaluation and deployment scenarios

Enhanced Password Generation Rules

• New Password Rules:
  • Restrict the number times a given character can appear in a password
  • Restrict the minimum number of alphabetic characters that can appear in a password
  • Restrict the number of non-alphabetic characters that can appear in a password
• Accommodates additional rules implemented in systems such as IBM AIX

Performance Optimizations

• 18.7 Includes the following performance optimizations:
  • Password Checkout Performance
  • RDP and SSH Session Performance

Remote Access Kit – Host Trust Verification

• Remote Access Kit allows a PAS user to use their local SSH (PuTTY) or RDP (Microsoft Remote Desktop Client) to initiate privilege sessions
• With 18.7, the Remote Access Kit has been enhanced to support host trust verification

Privileged Access Service - Customer Hosted

Windows Server 2016 Support

• Privileged Access Service (Customer Hosted) was launched last year with support for Windows Server 2012 R2.
• Customer Hosted installation now supports the current version of Windows Server (2016)

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• Unassigned users in a provisioning group from Workday are no longer synched to an Active Directory “test” group (CC-57998).
• Tagging a SAML app in the User Portal no longer generates an error (CC-54368).
• The Dynamic CRM plug-in now works using WS-Trust (CC-60305).
• New default load sample scripts are supplied in the Source to Target tab for Workday inbound provisioning (CC-57792).
• Report names can now include the pound (“#”) symbol (CC-54880).
• The Export Reports and Email Reports commands have been restored to the option drop down in My Reports (CC-59978).
• The Samanage app configuration documentation has been updated (CC-59414).
• Users with the User Management right now have the right to update the policy needed to invite users (CC-60184).
• Users now need the Application Management or Read Only System Administration right in order to see the job history list (CC-60191).
• Previously any systems with port 135 (DCE/RPC) open were discovered by the Privilege Access Service as Windows computers. HP-UX have this port open by default and are now correctly discovered as HP-UX (CC-60104).
• Users are no longer prompted for a certificate to use when attempting to Zero Sign On when using an external Certificate Authority but with no Certificate Authorities available (CC-59389).
• It is now possible to select more than one department in the Source Selection Rule for inbound provisioning (CC-60062).
• The Trace function now functions correctly in an Office 365 advanced script (CC-58773).
• Iterating in a SAML script through users who are members of a large number of groups no longer produces an exception (CC-59099).
• Calculation of the date for the next discovery run for the Privilege Access Service is now correct (CC-58627).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

End-of-life notification

This section contains notifications for upcoming termination of apps, features or programmatic access (APIs):

• Action Required – TLS 1.0 Deprecation

  As part of our mission to protect customers and align with PCI DSS standards, Centrify updated the minimum TLS protocol required to connect to the Centrify Cloud Platform from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 as of 18.5. TLS 1.0 support will be deprecated when Centrify Cloud 18.6 is released. Connectors running on machines with Windows Server 2008 R2 or older must upgrade the Connector to version 18.5 prior to the release of Centrify Cloud 18.6 to avoid potential disruptions. Please see this knowledge base article for important details.

New Features - Centrify Application Services   

BambooHR: Support for In-bound provisioning

• Seamless Provisioning of user information from BambooHR into ActiveDirectory
• Configurable Provisioning Rules that enable:
  • Explicit Mapping of attributes between BambooHR and AD
  • Specifying AD group in which user can be created
  • Selective Provisioning of all users or a subset (business unit)
  • Periodic full sync or incremental syncs
  • Customizable Attribute Mapping via scripts
• Deeper insight into provisioning status via Job Reports

ADP: Enhanced Support for SSO into WorkforceNow

• Extend SAML SSO support for ADP’s portfolio to WorkforceNow, a suite of apps from ADP covering Payroll & Tax, Time and Labor Management, Employee Benefits and ACA for midsize businesses

   

• Complete Centrify's SAML SSO support to all apps in ADP’s portfolio including ADP Portal, my.adp.com, Vantage HCM and WorkforceNow Enhanced Time

The following apps have been updated:

• UltiPro (User / Password)
• ADP (SAML)

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

iOS Mobile App Management Improvements

• Customized App Install message identifies the customer as the one installing the app rather than the tenant URL
  
  
• Configurable App Installation attempts:
  • Policies -> Endpoint Policies -> iOS Settings -> Application Management Settings
    
    
• Set once globally for all mobile app installations (required apps only)

Centrify Mobile Device Enrollment Improvements

• New option allows user to select Company vs. Personal ownership during enrollment
• Option to set default device ownership
  
  
• Support for hyperlinks in the enrollment welcome screen
  
  
• Streamlined device enrollment for iOS 11.3 and newer devices leveraging SFSafariViewController in enrollment
  
  
• Rooted Android device detection is now possible even when Magisk is used to hide detection

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services 

Privileged Access Service

New System Discovery Engine

• The new discovery engine provides added capabilities:
  • Modular architecture: allows for additional types of discovery in different contexts (AA, system, etc.) using in a common framework.
  • New system discovery that allows for multiple types of approaches: AD or Port Scan.
• Management Flexibility
  • “Actions” have broadened to support PAS strengths including “Add to set”
  • Discovery credential management.
  • Excluded systems (blacklist) management.
• Extensible Framework

SailPoint IdentityIQ Integration – PAS Access Request

• 18.6 starts the first phase of integration with SailPoint IdentityIQ.
• With the SailPoint integration you can:
  • Onboard PAS objects (systems, accounts) as assets.
  • Use SailPoint IdentityIQ to manage the workflow lifecycle (request, approve, trace... etc.) for secure access or password checkout to PAS.

Privileged Access Service - Customer Hosted

Evaluation Mode

• This option provides the ability to run Privileged Access Service (customer hosted) in a single node configuration without High-Availability.
• This significantly reduces the complexity of evaluation pre-requisites.
  
  

New Features - Centrify Core Services

Improved Language Support

Administrators can define Default Language by Policy in User Account Policy.

Users can change their language in User Portal under Account

• User choice will override default policy

Bulk import to a Role that defines language

Platform honors the AD Preferred Language attribute

• Centrify attribute will override what is stored in AD
• Centrify does not update the AD Preferred Language attribute

Centrify Language Support

• User Portal: 18 languages
• Admin Portal: 10 languages

New Features - SIEM and ServiceNow Integrations

Support MSP Use Case – Early Access

• MSPs can now support multiple Centrify customers on one ServiceNow tenant
• MSP support for all 4 Applications:
  • App Access Request
  • Privileged Access Request
  • Password Reset
  • Identity Service 

Support “Request” from ServiceNow 

• Approve workflow request based leveraging existing CHG Request
  • If the ticket is approved within ServiceNow, access is fulfilled
  • If the ticket associated with the request isn’t approved, then go through the workflow engine within ServiceNow

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• A new policy has been added for default message language. By default, the language used is the message sender’s language setting (i.e. the language setting for the administrator that caused the message to be sent), but that can be overridden to a specific language by setting the policy (CC-51721).
• Advanced script capabilities have been added to all SAML applications, previously this was only available on some SAML applications (CC-55466).
• When enrolling devices, if PKI certificates are defined by Active Directory group policy to be downloaded, three certificates are now sent: root CA, user CA and issuing CA. This matches the behavior when PKI certificates are defined in a cloud policy (CC-57705).
• An error is no longer shown when a user with read-only management right enters the Partner Management page (CC-58426).
• Emailed reports no longer show an error if a relative date type is set (CC-57562).
• Network unavailable is no longer shown on an iOS device using Safari when launching a bookmark app that has a mobile authenticator profile, with the MFA approval step on the same device (CC-58453).
• Phone numbers for newly enrolled Android devices are now correctly shown in the Admin Portal (CC-58622).
• Resolved an issue whereby some iOS native apps would continuously prompt for update due to two different version numbers inside the app (CC-58652).
• Administrators can now block access from the Centrify mobile app to various domains in the firewall policy for Android devices. Individual domains can be blocked in the domain deny rules – denying all will still allow the mobile app to access the Centrify cloud (CC-58029).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

End-of-life notification

This section contains notifications for upcoming termination of apps, features or programmatic access (APIs):

• Action Required – TLS 1.0 Deprecation

  As part of our mission to protect customers and align with PCI DSS standards, Centrify will be updating the minimum TLS protocol required to connect to the Centrify Cloud Platform from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 as of 18.5. TLS 1.0 support will be deprecated on June 16, 2018 when Centrify Cloud 18.6 is released. Please see this knowledge base article for important details and steps to take to prevent any service outage.

• From the 18.6 release, Connectors earlier than 17.7-108 will lose service if not upgraded. As a reminder, Centrify support policy provides support for the Connectors running the current release and two prior releases, and running a connector from a prior release may limit the use of newer functionality. For more information, please see this Tech Alert article.

New Features - Centrify Application Services   

Centrify Browser Extension (CBE) Land & Catch

When a user manually logs into a web application, CBE will ask if they want to create/update the app in Centrify.

• Name, Description, and Icon allow the app to be customized before update/creation
• Clicking on "Yes" will create/update the app
• Clicking on "No" will ignore the prompt once
• Clicking on "Never" will always ignore in the future

The following apps have been updated:

• EchoSign (SAML)
• UtilPro (U/P)

The following apps have been removed from the catalog:

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

Centrify Keychain Sync for Mac (Released in Infrastructure Services 2018)

• This feature solves a problem all Mac AD users face when changing their password:
  • The Mac Keychain (used by apps to store data) can no longer be unlocked when the password changes
  • This results in many application pop-up errors and a confusing resolution prompt from the OS

• Centrify's solution will detect when a user's password has been changed and prompt the user to get it back in sync again.
  • This feature prevents the confusing OS dialog from popping up
  • Feature is enabled by a new group policy
  • There is an option to remember the user's old password, thus only requiring the new password to resolve the issue

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services 

Privileged Access Service

Alternative Account Discovery

• • Enterprises use alternative (administrative) accounts to separate regular user vs. "privileged user" accounts in Active Directory.
  • “Dash-A” or “Admin” accounts are typically one of the first use cases to be addressed by vault-based security.
  • With 18.5, admins will be able to:
    • Discover alternative accounts based on a specified criteria with automatic or manual owner matching
    • Secure the alternative account by assigning to the corresponding owner
    • Ease of access to alternative accounts for password checkout and secure login

SAP ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise)

• 18.5 adds SAPM support for SAP ASE
• SAP ASE is the database product formerly known as Sybase.
• SAPM Support:
  • Stand-alone
  • Clustered
• Versions 15.x, 16.x 

Cisco AsyncOS (formerly IronPort)  

• Cisco AsyncOS supports the family of IronPort appliances.
• All Cisco Email security appliances are powered by the Cisco AsyncOS operating system, optimized for high performance and security.
• Supported versions: 10.x and 11.x

Centrify Agent for Linux – MFA

• 18.5 introduces MFA at login for the Centrify Agent for Linux.
• The agent now supports MFA:
  • Upon manual enrollment (cenroll --user)
  • When logging-in
• MFA leverages the Policy Engine (Login Policies – UNIX and Windows Servers).
• Conditional Access is supported.

Centrify Connector – RDP Service Customization

• Starting with 18.5, customers will be able to control:
  • RDP Server (enable/disable).
  • RDP Port (previously configurable through tenant parameter).
• Prior to 18.5, this was an internal parameter change that required a support case or additional setup in the customer-hosted version of Privileged Access Service.

Centrify Analytics Services

Ingest Centrify Infrastructure Data

Enable Centrify customers to get their data ingested to the Centrify Analytics Portal for better access insights.

Forward Audit Events

• Flexible deployment of the Centrify Sensor
• Better control of events ingested into the Centrify Analytics Portal

Forward Session Data

• Control where session data is stored
• Store only sessions with unusual activity

Forward Zone Data

• Expose 70+ views for better reporting
• Synchronize the zone data at a customizable frequency

Access Insights for Centrify Infrastructure Services

Dashboards covering Infrastructure Risk and Infrastructure Usage to help with better visibility.

Customize Dashboards

• 16+ canned dashboards
• 10s of widgets that help create dashboards

Share Dashboards

• Easily share in different file formats
• Access like an application in one portal for teams

Dashboard Auto Update

• Dashboards are refreshed to be current on a pre-set interval

Behavior-based access control for Infrastructure Access

Enable risk-aware access to login and privilege elevation for infrastructure access.

Basic Policy via Portal

• If ‘risk-level is high’ and ‘access is from outside the corporate network' --> trigger step up with 2 strong factors
• If ‘risk-level is low’ and ‘access is from a trusted device' --> allow access

Advanced Policy via API

• If ‘risk-level is high for privilege elevation’ and ‘access is from China' --> terminate the session

Enhanced Anomaly Detection based on Behavior 

Detect anomalies based on multiple new factors in addition to factors in the Centrify User Analytics Services.

New Factors Include:

• Unusual recent privilege change
• Unusual command run
• Unusual target accessed
• Unusual privilege elevation
• Unusual role used
• Consecutive login failures

Investigate Access Anomalies 

Investigate Privilege Anomalies leveraging a powerful toolkit streamlined for just identity anomaly investigation.

Session Timeline

• View the detailed activity timeline from the Centrify Analytics Portal

Play Video Session

• Easily re-play the Anomaly from the timeline

Understand Anomalies Easily

• Identify the factors contributing to the anomaly

Adaptive Session Recording and Replay for Anomalies 

Record sessions when anomalies are detected and help prioritize sessions based on risk.

• Click-through from Session Timeline
• Enterprise Control on Storage of Session Recording
• Control the Trigger for Session Recording

Alerting and Notifications

Remediate anomalies by integrating with any Webhook-enabled endpoint.

Support for Anomaly Alerting

• Leverage Slack or incident response applications like PagerDuty for real-time alerting; integrate with any Webhook-enabled endpoint

Customize Alert Content

• Define what to include in the alert message

New Features - Centrify Core Services 

MFA Service

MFA: Multi-Step and Multi-Factor Support

Authentication Profiles define one or two sets of Authenticators, a new Policy controls the behavior.

Multi-Step will fail on the first factor that does not succeed.

• This is now an option within the Login Policy for Centrify Portal to "Continue with additional challenges after failed challenge".

Multi-Factor will always step through both factors and fail at the end if one is not successful.

• This MFA model is NIST compliant for Assurance Level 2, this is also PCI-DSS compliant.

MFA: OTP Server (RADIUS) Custom Challenge Message

OTP Servers can require different data input from end users, administrators would like to customize the user challenge prompt.

• For example, some OTP Servers may require the user to enter a PIN+Passcode if configured for higher authentication assurance level 2

SMTP Gateway in Connector

Some customers may require email to be delivered from their domain using their own SMTP Servers.

• If the SMTP Server is located inside a customer's network (not in the DMZ), the Connector will be needed to connect internal SMTP Server.

Centrify can use any Connector or specified Connectors to route SMTP messages to internal SMTP Servers.

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• From release 18.6, the Centrify Identity Services platform will no longer support TLS 1.0 connections. The Centrify Browser Extension requires .NET 4.6.2 in order to support the latest security protocols used by the Centrify Identity Services platform and, as a result, versions of the Centrify Browser Extension prior to 18.5 will no longer be supported on IE (SSO will fail). If you have pinned an older version of the Centrify Browser Extension, please update the policy to allow updates to 18.5 in order to support this change in the 18.6 release (CC-57765).
• Starting in this release, all user logins to Centrify Agent for Linux (except for local users) will require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and “Unix and Windows Server” login policy is used to determine how the user is authenticated. Note that this is a major behavioral change for users. If the user does not have any valid authentication profile setup, they will be denied login whereas they were allowed to login in prior versions of Centrify Agent for Linux. Customers can disable the MFA requirement for login by setting the mfa.enabled parameter to false in /etc/centrifycc/centrifycc.conf (CC-55933).
• Localized versions of application names and descriptions can now be added by an administrator for apps created in the Admin Portal (CC-52944).
• The Salesforce SCIM endpoint is now supported for outbound SCIM using a custom SAML app (CC-57381).
• Administrators can now choose to allow end users to specify whether their mobile device is personally or corporate owned on enrollment to ensure the right policies and privacy is applied to the device (CC-53399). 

• Credentials are no longer required when launching Company Apps on an iOS device (CC-58022). 

• Administrators can now set a policy to prevent users from duplicating answers to multiple security questions (CC-55562). 

• Array values are now supported in provisioning scripts (CC-43913). 

• Zendesk provisioning configuration documentation has been updated (CC-57982). 

• The Mobile Authenticator MFA option is now available when using DEP enrollment (CC-57805). 

• In SAML app scripts, the Relay State value is now correctly passed, previously it was truncated at the first double quote (“) mark found (CC-57789).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

End-of-life notification

This section contains notifications for upcoming termination of apps, features or programmatic access (APIs):

• As of this release, the lowest iOS release supported by the Centrify mobile app for iOS is 10. Users with devices running iOS 9 will still be able to install the 18.3 Centrify mobile app for iOS, which is the last release that supported iOS 9.
• From the 18.4 release, Connectors earlier than 17.7-108 will lose service if not upgraded. As a reminder, Centrify support policy provides support for the Connectors running the current release and two prior releases, and running a connector from a prior release may limit the use of newer functionality. For more information, please see this Tech Alert article.

New Features - Centrify Application Services   

SAML App UI Enhancements

“Attribute Value” allows for the selection of Objects, Variables, and Methods.

• Clicking “Add” creates a new attribute that will be passed in the SAML Response
• Free form text can be added to Attribute Value
• The drop down in “Attribute Value” can be selected to chose an object and variables/methods available in that object

The following user name / password apps have been updated:

• Brainpop
• Bath & Body Works
• Cub Foods
• EDU20
• Finance41
• ISNIC Registry
• Trip.com

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

End-user Checkout for Mac LAPM Account

Policy allows end user LAPM checkout:

• By default, end-user checkout is not allowed
• When enabled, checkout is for the enrolled user only
• Checkout is done through the user portal
• Coming soon: checkout from mobile devices

End-user Checkout for Mac LAPM Account from Mobile

Checkout is now now available on mobile:

• Support for iOS and Android
• Phone and tablet form factors
• See details of all enrolled devices
• Coming soon: Device actions

Certificate Authority Template Picker for Mobile Policies

• For all email, WiFi and VPN policies, admins are now able to select the source certificate authority for deploying client certs
• Use the built-in CA in the Centrify Tenant, or any Microsoft CAs that have been added to the admin portal
• Select the CA for each policy, for MS CAs admins can select the corresponding certificate template 

Language Specific Enrollment Welcome Screen

• Enrollment welcome screen is optional
• There is a new option to “specify unique welcome message for supported languages” N

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services 

New Import Tool

• Starting in 18.4, Infrastructure Services will introduce a new tool for importing objects into the privilege service vault
• This feature complements the existing manual and CSV import GUI capabilities
• The new Import Tool allows admins to import:
  • Systems, Domains, Databases and their Accounts
  • Newly-added attributes (such as administrative accounts)
  • “Add to Set” functionality
• This new tooling will be distributed via Centrify’s GitHub once 18.4 is released

Device Factory – F5 BIG-IP SAPM/PSM

• 18.4 adds SAPM and PSM support for one of the most common devices in enterprise networks: F5 BIG-IP (TMOS)
• Infrastructure Services add:
  • Password Management via REST
  • Privilege Session
  • Local Administrative account (required for SAPM)
  • Vault-based policy and MFA.
• Versions 11.x-13.x

Improvements for Centrify Connectors with multiple NICs 

• Organizations often have systems with multiple network interface cards (NICs) that are acting as Centrify Connectors
• In the past, Infrastructure Services would use the first-returned NIC for network operations (e.g. secure access and password operations)
• Behavior Change:
  • Starting with 18.4, Infrastructure Services will use the Connector’s returned FQDN IP addresses of the system for network operations
  • All returned IP addresses are attempted until there is a hit

Improvements for SSH/RDP Local Client Window Identification

• 18.4 Improves the usability of Local Client session by providing better identification

Centrify Agent for Linux

• Targeting fix for performance related to caching of group membership information

• 2017.3 installer (install.sh) has also been refreshed
• Support for Amazon Linux 2 (both adclient and cclient)

• Enroll CentOS Docker container in CIP

  • Instructions, configuration files published to github.com/centify/docker_files

Centrify Analytics Services - Private Beta

Please contact Centrify Support to inquire about participation in the beta program.

Ingest Centrify Infrastructure Services – Audit Events

Forward Audit Events into the Analytics Portal leveraging Centrify Sensor.

• Flexible Deployment - Centrify Sensor can be flexibly deployed:
  • Deployed with DA collector
  • Deployed with Centrify Agent
• Enterprise Control on Events Ingested: Filter / Mask what you don’t want to move to the cloud

Ingest Centrify Infrastructure Services – Zone Data

Forward ”Who has access to which Infrastructure Server, i.e., Policy Data” Zone data into Centrify Analytics Portal.

• Easy Enablement: Leverage Centrify Sensor to forward both Events and Policy Data
• Flexible Reporting: Admins can now query Events & Policy via one console easily

Ingest Centrify Infrastructure Services – DA Session Data

Adaptively record session videos for Infrastructure activity anomalies .

• Adaptive Session Recording: 15-30 second session recording of anomalies leveraging Real-time Threat Analytics
• Session Timeline: Events are all co-related to a sessions on a timeline

Additional Access Insights for Centrify Infrastructure Services

New dashboards around Infrastructure Risk Assessment and Infrastructure Access Overview.

• Easily Customize Dashboards: Comes with pre-configured datasets around Events / Zone data to help on-board
• Comes with 12+ pre-configured widgets to help create a new dashboard
• Easily Share / Export Dashboards

Enhanced Anomaly Detection based on Behavior

Multiple new factors added to evaluate infrastructure access risk.
New factors include:

• Unusual Recent Privilege Change
• Unusual Command Run
• Unusual Target Accessed
• Unusual Account Used
• Unusual Privilege Elevation

Behavior based access control for Infrastructure Access

Investigate Access Anomalies 

Investigate a Privilege Anomaly easily via drilldown to explorer:

• Session timeline view from the event
• Targeted session replay for the Infrastructure access anomaly
• Easily identity what factors contributed to the anomaly

Adaptive Session Recording and Replay for Anomalies 

Replay session for any anomalies based on machine learning models:

• Click-through from Session timeline
• Enterprise control on storage of session recordings
• Control the trigger for session recordings

Alerting and Notifications

Remediate anomalies via integration with any Webhook enabled endpoint:

• Supports anomaly alerting via Slack, Pager Duty, etc.
• integrates with any Webhook enabled endpoint
• Easily customize what’s included in the Alert 

New Features - SIEM and ServiceNow Integrations

Centrify ServiceNow – Zone Role Workflow

Request temporary access for Accounts from ServiceNow

• Centrify Zone Role Workflow has been added to the Service Catalog
• Leverage the ServiceNow Service Catalog to request access to infrastructure
• Enables temporary Zone Role assignment within Active Directory

Centrify Identity Services – HP ArcSight Integration (Sample)

Open source HP ArcSight sample for categorizing and normalizing events

• Integration guide available on docs.centrify
• Sample python code available on github
• CIP ArcSight integration is not supported
• Supported: Writing to Syslog in Syslog format 

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• Thai and Serbian language support has been added to the User Portal (CC-56904).
• Minor security fixes were applied in this release to tighten some deprecated MFA APIs. Customers still using GetAuthPolicy and related APIs may see an increase in login failures as a result. No changes were made to current MFA APIs (CC-53660).
• The connector now automatically enables higher-security security protocols. As of release 18.6 TLS 1.0 will no longer be supported (CC-54386).
• The Cloud Linux Agent now supports Amazon Linux 2 (CC-54183).
• A Mobile policy has been added to allow / disallow capturing OTP passcodes for other sites. The default value is to allow passcodes to be captured / shown on a mobile device (CC-54377).
• Support has been added in this release for Single Sign Out. Previously the logout URL logged the users out from the Cloud Service, now it also logs the user out of the app (CC-47215).
• Administrators can now modify the ownership of a device from corporate to personal or vice-versa from the action menu or by right-clicking on the device. This overrides the ownership set during enrollment (CC-54597).
• Active Directory users can now upload a user photo in the User Portal (CC-55864).
• The Forgot Password and change password experience has been updated to make it more intuitive with additional information to guide users to the cause of a password failure due to complexity requirements (CC-53664).
• Wildcard domain names are now allowed in Settings > Authentication > Security Settings > API Security (CC-56463).
• The correct payload is now generated to support SCIM 2.0 PATCH (CC-55336).
• After logging out from Google Web apps such as Google Mail, the account is remembered by accounts.google.com. Google Web apps now launch and single sign-on correctly in cases where the user name has been remembered by the app (CC-55353).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

New Features - Centrify Application Services

Significant Behavior Changes

Centrify Connector

From the next release, Connectors earlier than 17.7-108 will lose service if not upgraded. As a reminder, Centrify support policy provides support for the Connectors running the current release and two prior releases, and running a connector from a prior release may limit the use of newer functionality. For more information, please see this Tech Alert article.

Open ID Connect App
The OpenID Connect app has been enhanced to allow refresh tokens to be refreshed as specified by the OAuth 2 spec. The app configuration page for OpenID Connect has also been modified to be more consistent with other apps. Some fields have been moved around into more logical groupings.

As part of these changes, all existing OpenID Connect apps will continue to work as-is. However, if you wish to make use of refresh tokens or if you wish to make any other changes to the app, you will need to make other changes outside the OpenID Connect app in order for this to work. You will be notified of any changes you to need to make when you attempt to edit the OpenID Connect app.

End-of-life Notification

Android versions earlier than 4.3 will not be supported by the Centrify mobile app for Android from the next release (18.4).

Zero Trust: Block or Force Challenge for WS-Trust Authentication

• Enable or Disable WS-Trust

• Enforce challenges with WS-Trust

• If enabled, WS-Trust connections that do not support MFA challenges will be blocked

App Gateway: Improved Reverse Proxy / Firewall Integration

• Allow firewall to filter inbound app gateway traffic using the X-Forwarded-For and/or RFC-7239 headers

• Allow use of the REMOTE_USER header to indicate the incoming users as asserted by Centrify IDP

• Enabled on a per app basis in App Gateway

• Allows use of the X-Forwarded-For header as either the Username or the Client IP Address

Localization of App Names and Description

• Allows customers to customize the name and description of applications for supported languages

• Enabled on a per app basis
• Set the default language
• Provide a custom app name and description for each supported language

The following apps have been updated:

• Frevvo Live Forms In-house (SAML)
• Lucidchart (SAML)
• Box (SAML + Provisioning)
• Centrify Online Training (User name / Password)

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services 

Test Connection /Verify Password

• Starting in 18.3, Infrastructure Services will introduce manual system ping and account health check options
• This functionality will supersede the global/system/domain/database setting that enabled automatic health checks
• Ping & health check functionality can be initiated by any IS (CPS) user and will be tracked in the object’s attributes
• The AllowHealthCheck,HealthCheckInterval JSON are deprecated

Palo Alto Firewall (PANOS) SAPM/PSM

• Adds SAPM and PSM to the existing SAML application included with Application Services
• 18.3 adds the following features:
  • Password Management via API (requires PKI setup) for Administrative users without Authentication Profiles
  • Privilege Session
  • Local Administrative account (required for SAPM)
  • Vault-based policy and MFA
• Versions 7.1 and 8.0
  
  

Use My Account (LMIv1) for UNIX

• Provides the capability be “logged in” automatically as a vault user in an IS system that uses adclient or cclient with OpenSSH 7.4 and above, configured with a specific SSH CA master key
• Uses the web session (not the local client)
• Bypasses MFA: ideally an authentication assurance level is achieved at the vault level (e.g. smart card)
• Version 1 does not support multiple Smart Card identities
• Federated identity is not supported by LMI

Centrify Agent for Linux – Secondary UNIX Group Visibility

• Version 18.3 of the Centrify Agent for Linux (cclient) starts the initial phase to support secondary UNIX groups
• CIP groups containing supported identity sources can be used as UNIX secondary groups using the Group Visibility feature
• Name is same as CIP name and GID is automatically-generated
• Future improvements: performance and group enumeration for NSS-like applications

AD Domain Administrative Account Issue Detection

• 18.3 features mechanisms to notify the end user if something is wrong with the AD domain’s administrative account:
  • Insufficient rights (group membership or rights modification)
  • Bad credentials (password change directly in Active Directory)

Centrify Analytics Services - Private Beta

Please contact Centrify Support to inquire about participation in the beta program.

Ingest Centrify Infrastructure Services – Audit Events

Forward Audit Events into the Analytics Portal leveraging Centrify Sensor.

• Flexible Deployment - Centrify Sensor can be flexibly deployed:
  • Deployed with DA collector
  • Deployed with Centrify Agent
• Enterprise Control on Events Ingested: Filter / Mask what you don’t want to move to the cloud

Ingest Centrify Infrastructure Services – Zone Data

Forward ”Who has access to which Infrastructure Server, i.e., Policy Data” Zone data into Centrify Analytics Portal.

• Easy Enablement: Leverage Centrify Sensor to forward both Events and Policy Data
• Flexible Reporting: Admins can now query Events & Policy via one console easily

Ingest Centrify Infrastructure Services – DA Session Data

Adaptively record session videos for Infrastructure activity anomalies .

• Adaptive Session Recording: 15-30 second session recording of anomalies leveraging Real-time Threat Analytics
• Session Timeline: Events are all co-related to a sessions on a timeline

Additional Access Insights for Centrify Infrastructure Services

New dashboards around Infrastructure Risk Assessment and Infrastructure Access Overview.

• Easily Customize Dashboards: Comes with pre-configured datasets around Events / Zone data to help on-board
• Comes with 12+ pre-configured widgets to help create a new dashboard
• Easily Share / Export Dashboards

Enhanced Anomaly Detection based on Behavior

Multiple new factors added to evaluate infrastructure access risk.
New factors include:

• Unusual Recent Privilege Change
• Unusual Command Run
• Unusual Target Accessed
• Unusual Account Used
• Unusual Privilege Elevation

Behavior based access control for Infrastructure Access

Investigate Access Anomalies 

Investigate a Privilege Anomaly easily via drilldown to explorer:

• Session timeline view from the event
• Targeted session replay for the Infrastructure access anomaly
• Easily identity what factors contributed to the anomaly

Adaptive Session Recording and Replay for Anomalies 

Replay session for any anomalies based on machine learning models:

• Click-through from Session timeline
• Enterprise control on storage of session recordings
• Control the trigger for session recordings

Alerting and Notifications

Remediate anomalies via integration with any Webhook enabled endpoint:

• Supports anomaly alerting via Slack, Pager Duty, etc.
• integrates with any Webhook enabled endpoint
• Easily customize what’s included in the Alert 

New Features - SIEM and ServiceNow Integrations

Centrify ServiceNow Apps – Certified for latest ServiceNow Release

 4 Apps Certified for Jakarta, Istanbul, Helsinki & Geneva.

Centrify Identity Services SIEM Integration – GA

Forward all Centrify Identity Services events into Syslog

• Enhanced Splunk support to include Splunk Add-On for CIP in Splunkbase
  • Supports Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise
• Centrify Syslog Writer is GA and is available via Centrify's Download Center – extents Centrify's events into other SIEM tools
• Integration guide available on docs.centrify.com

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• The Walk-Me help feature has been removed from the Admin Portal in this release (CC-55314). 

• Maximum password history has been increased from 10 to 20 (CC-55558). 

• Modifying LDAP server configuration is now correctly supported on LDAP servers that have required custom unique identifiers, such as the MS-LDAP and Tivoli LDAP servers (CC-52777).
• Zero Sign-On (ZSO) support has been added for Firefox v58+ (CC-54822).
• Support has been added for storing very large SP Metadata (CC-54812).
• The status for suspended Google Directory users is now shown correctly. Previously they were always shown as active (CC-55371).
• The Test Advanced Script function has been modified in this release to enhance security. The SAML response preview now has the response certificate, signature and digest values obfuscated, however the real values will be used for SSO.
• QRadar application now correctly works through the App Gateway (CC-56215).
• The Box provisioning app no longer returns 404 errors if content ownership changes (CC-55527).
• The Dropbox provisioning app has been enhanced to support role mapping for Support Admin and User Management Admin (CC-48357).
• Dropbox SSO configuration documentation has been updated for Chrome and Firefox browsers (CC-40211).
• Administrators can now choose between Enterprise and Standard accounts in the Slack app (CC-52691).
• MFA can now be required for portal access for federated (B2B) users (CC-53237).
• Active Directory group sync is now supported in SCIM (CC-53930).
• The Webapp shortcut can now be opened on Android N devices and later (CC-54736).
• Where certificates have been uploaded for policies, it is now possible to remove the uploaded cert (using “Remove”) without affecting the other policy settings (CC-55054).
• The order of SAML elements can now be dynamic for WS-Fed applications (CC-54456).
• It is now possible to prevent collection of installed applications on enrolled devices – the default is to collect the information (CC-53775).
• An option has been added to show / not show a custom welcome screen for iOS devices during enrollment (CC-53676).
• When managed apps are installed on a device for an enrolled user, only those managed apps are shown on the application tab (CC-54946).
• The Company Apps store for iOS devices now only shows apps that are compatible or the type of device being used. For example, iPad-only apps are not shown for iPhones (CC-39129).
• The Download Apple Configurator link in the Admin Portal has been updated with the revised link from Apple (CC-55194).
• Location is now optionally tracked after enrollment on Windows 10 devices (CC-48372).
• The System Administrator role can now be made available for use in a UNIX group by the Cloud Linux Agent (CC-53943).
• In this release, the “AllowHealthCheck”:true,”HealthCheckInterval”:2 request JSON are deprecated. They will have no functional impact (CC-54832).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

For Maintenance Release 2 security advisories and known issues , please see attached file. 

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

Centrify Application Services (formerly known as Identity Services)

The following apps have been updated:

• • GitHub Enterprise on-premise (user / password)
  • ExpressionEngine (user / password)
  • VersionOne Support (user / password)
  • Simply Voting Election Manager (user / password)

End-of-life Notification

This section contains notifications for upcoming termination of apps, features or programmatic access (APIs):

• The Walk-Me help feature will be removed from the Admin Portal in the next release (18.3)

Announcement of Upcoming Changes Regarding OpenID Connect App (release 18.3)

We are enhancing our OpenID Connect app to allow customers to request refresh tokens as specified by the OAuth 2 spec. The app configuration page for OpenID Connect has also been modified to be more consistent with our other apps. Some fields have been moved around into more logical groupings. 

As part of these changes, all existing OpenID Connect apps will continue to work as is. However, if the customer wishes to make use of refresh tokens or if they wish to make any other changes to the app, some changes will be required on the customer's end. Customers will be notified of any changes they need to make if they attempt to edit their OpenID Connect app.

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services (formerly known as Privilege Service)

Local Administrative Account – Phase I

• Follows-up the administrative account capability of Active Directory domains
• Incremental set of capabilities with these goals
  • Account/Password reconciliation
  • High-availability
  • Advanced device functionality
• Phase I
  • Ability to set a ‘local admin’ account will be introduced on system onboard and shortcuts
  • Initially with network devices

Check Point GAiA™ - Revisited

• Check Point GAiA™ SAPM and PSM was introduced in the summer of 2017
• This new iteration introduces:
  • Local administrative account
  • Expert mode password management
• In this release:
  • Admins use their accounts for access
  • To utilize expert mode, admins return to Infrastructure Services to check out the expert mode password of the corresponding CP GAiA system and pastes it in the terminal
• Coming in a future release:
  • Enhancement to establish a secure session directly as the expert-mode account

DirectAudit – Support for Multiple Installations

• Prior to 18.2, only one DirectAudit installation could be used per CS instance
• With 18.2, multiple DirectAudit installations are supported
• Connector affinity can be set in a per installation basis
• Supports hybrid cloud (or distributed datacenter) scenarios

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• The /UserMgmt/UpdateSecurityQuestions API now allows administrators to set security questions for users. The following JSON payload should be used:
  
  {“ID”,”<id or name of user to set security question for>”, “securityquestion”, “<text of question>”, “questionanswer”, “<text of answer>”}
  
  (CC-54704).
• The StartAuthentication API no longer requires a Referrer when calling with a federated ID (CC-54442).
• The Android mobile app now will remember policies that have been received even if the app is killed while applying the policies. Previously any policies that had been received but not applied before the app terminated would be lost (CC-53618)
• No longer receive an error about a missing provisioning handler when SSO-ing to an app from the catalog after provisioning is enabled (CC-54691).
• Location information is now reported correctly for iOS 11 devices (CC-54857).
• A switch has been added to turn WS-Trust off for a given policy, affecting all application instances of Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM (WS-Fed). In addition a switch is now provided to allow the administrator to enforce app policy challenges for WS-Trust. By default application policies which cannot be supported via WS-Trust (such as MFA) are not enforced and prevents authentication challenges from blocking WS-Trust authentication (CC-52624).
• In some cases it was possible where a group created by role mapping in the Box or GSuite provisioning apps would contain only one user, even when multiple users were synched. Groups created in this way now contain the correct number of users (CC-54784, CC-54858).
• In policies, BundleIDs are now valid when there is a period (“.”) in the last character, following Apple recommendations (CC-53948).
• A custom enrollment welcome screen is now supported for Android devices as well as for iOS devices (CC-53674).
• Non-ATS compliant NTLM basic custom applications on enrolled iOS devices no longer display SSL errors (CC-52968).
• SSO now correctly functions on Internet Explorer for NTLM and basic app templates (CC-50108).
• Apps that are specific to countries outside the US can now be added to iOS devices after finding them in country-specific app stores (CC-53950).
• The AuthName of the user is no longer included when using cert-based authentication as it is optional and can cause issues with some profiles (CC-53221).
• The sub-tabs in the device details page in the portals have been reordered, they are now: Details, Activity, Device Applications, Location, Location History, Policy Summary (CC-54298).
• Custom text added for device enrollment by SMS now correctly shows in the text message when the invite is sent from “Add Device” in the User Portal (CC-54179).
• Group Name is no longer mandatory on the Cisco IPsec VPN profile (CC-53989).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

For Maintenance Release 1 security advisories and known issues , please see attached file. 

For Maintenance Release 2 security advisories and known issues , please see attached file. 

For Maintenance Release 3 security advisories and known issues , please see attached file. 

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

New Features - Centrify Application Services (formerly known as Identity Services)

Multiple Security Questions

• Administrator can set policy enabling users to provide a bank of security questions
  • Questions can be both Admin-Defined and User-Defined
  • Administrator can set policy for minimum character length
• Number of security questions user must answer can now be defined under Authentication Profiles 
• User is prompted to setup security questions in User Portal
• MFA using security questions will randomly select a security question from the bank of questions
      
  

Simplified SAML Configuration

• SAML app templates have been improved

  • Clearly break out setup of the Trust Relationship
    • New “Trust” tab as been added
  • Simplified ability to configure the SAML Response
    • New “SAML Response” tab, featuring:
      • An Attribute Mapping Widget
      • A Script Editor for custom logic

Create Groups via Role Mapping

• For apps that support provisioning, administrators can now create Groups in the app based on Roles in our platform

  • Groups can be automatically created in target app

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

End-user Checkout for Mac LAPM Account

• Policy allows end user LAPM checkout

  • End-user checkout is not allowed by default
  • If enabled, checkout is available for enrolled users only
  • Checkout is done through the user portal
  • Checkout from mobile device will be coming soon in future release

Install only iPad compliant apps on iPads

iOS Apps will only be deployed to compliant devices

• Based on the devices supported as identified by the app developer
• If an app is not supported on an iPhone or iPad, it will not deployed and will not show up in the Company Apps catalog

The following apps have been added to the catalog:

• 6sense (SAML)
  
  

The following apps have been updated:

• Amazon Web Services (User/Password)
• Highfive (SAML)
• JIRA Cloud (SAML)
• G Suite (SAML+Provisioning)
  
  

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services (formerly known as Privilege Service)

Discovery of IIS Application Pool Identity

• This feature enhances the existing AD-based Discovery introduced in 17.10

  • Discovery filters have added IIS Application Pool identities in addition Scheduled Tasks, Windows Services
  • Same rules apply.  IIS Application Pools will be discovered as long as they are using a domain or local identity

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• A new Active Directory permission has been added for Privilege Service called “Add Account”. This permission is required for administrators that add managed or unmanaged Active Directory account passwords into Privilege Service. Existing users (even if they have the Privilege Service Administrator entitlement) will not be able to add Active Directory accounts until they explicitly add the permission under the target domain’s permissions tab.
• Search for apps in the User or Admin portals now uses “contains” style searching rather than “begins with”. Search will match a string as long as that string is contained within the app name (CC-54222).
• The SSO status of the device now shows correctly in the User Portal device details page (CC-36580).
• In-house iOS apps are now only shown in the Company Apps store on a device if they are compatible with the device. Universal apps are shown for all device types, but iPad apps are not shown for iPhones and vice versa (CC-33856).
• It is now possible to add users to roles, or invite users, by searching by first name or last name (CC-44032).
• Support has been added for OpenID Connect apps that do not support https. http URIs are now supported (CC-53010).
• Fingerprint authentication now works on Android devices after the device resume from the lock screen (CC-53006).
• The SharePoint Server app now allows external users to access via the App Gateway (CC-53369).
• The SharePoint OnPrem app now supports linked apps (CC-52744).
• The serial number for Centrify-provisioned derived credentials on Android devices is now shown. Previously they were only shown on iOS devices (CC-53665).
• The location of iOS devices is now correctly updated periodically, as well as when a location change occurs, when the policy is enabled (CC-53466).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

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In case you hadn't heard, we will be upgrading our platform to version 17.11 this weekend (Saturday, December 16th).  The complete list of new features is available in the release notes, but as always I will tell you about my favorites here:

New Features - Centrify Application Services (formerly known as Identity Services)

Conditional Access for Endpoints and Infrastructure

Improved interaction with Infrastructure Services and Endpoint Services.

• • Previous support was always on MFA
    
    
  • Now supports conditional access / adaptive MFA
    
    
    

Customization of SMS Messages

Added support for customization of SMS messages.

• MFA Challenge
• MFA Challenge for RADIUS
• Device Enrollment

Includes new “tiny URL” support.

• Reduced URLs from variable length of ~100 characters to 36 characters

Easy to customize in any of the supported languages.

Old SMS with long URL

17.11 New SMS with short URL

 FIDO U2F Support

Added support for FIDO Universal 2nd Factor:

• Users can now self-register their U2F Security Keys
  
  
• Once registered, users can use these keys as an authentication mechanism.
  
  
  

Support for Multiple AWS Root Accounts

Updated Browser Extension and App template to support logging into multiple AWS Root Accounts.

• Template update:  new field for Account ID
• Browser Extension update: now detects if you are logged in to AWS, and will log you out in order to log into the correct account
  

Active Users Dashboard Widget

Easy for Admins to find out how many user licenses they are using.

• Overview Dashboard now contains “Active Users” widget

Active Users = users who have authenticated through the service in the last 30 days.

 Updates to OAuth (Preview)

Several enhancements to our OAuth implementation:

• Scopes now defined in-line in the OAuth App
  • Settings menu for Scopes has been removed
    
    
• New OAuth Client App
  • Ability to get Bearer Token for Client app
    
    
• Ability to generate Password for Confidential Clients
  • Bonus feature – this is available for setting the password for ALL users
    
    

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

Password Checkout for Managed Local Admin Account (Mac)

Admins retrieving the LAPM password are now checking out the password:

• Password is rotated based on time interval in policy
• UI will change from "get" to "checkout" in 18.1
• Tip: use Password Generation Profiles to simplify the LAPM Password

Derived Credentials integration with Intercede MyID

You can now use Intercede MyID for Derived Credentials.

• Enabled via Policy
  
  
• Intercede libraries compiled into Centrify's iOS and Android apps
• Scan QR code to add Intercede MyID Derived Credential
• Both Intercede and Centrify's Derived Credential can be on the device together
• Removing the need for an entitlement to enable Derived Credential

The following apps have been added to the catalog:

• SpaceIQ (SAML)
• Constant Contact (User/Password) – re-added
  
  

The following apps have been updated:

• Amazon Web Services Console for IAM Users (User/Password)
• JIRA (SAML)
• Box (SAML+Provisioning) – documentation update only
• FedEx (User/Password)
• G Suite (SAML+Provisioning) – documentation update only
• Humanity (SAML) – documentation update only
• Zoom (SAML) – documentation update only
• Zoho (SAML) – documentation update only

 The following apps have been removed:

• ProofHQ

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services (formerly known as  Privilege Service)

Core Services Changes – Login Policies 

• Policies – 17.11 changes:
  • Login Policies
    • Portal Policies are now separate
    • (New) UNIX and Windows Servers section
    • (New) Windows Workstations section
  • (New) Privilege Elevation Policies

Impact:

• Changes the way MFA is set up
• Provides flexibility and future capabilities
  • E.g. challenge for MFA only on weekends and outside business hours
• Existing customers:
  • An “Auto generated” policy will be created automatically on first use

Active Directory - Automatic Account Maintenance

• Prior to 17.11, the target AD account password was used for SAPM operations
• Earlier this year, we introduced the Active Directory administrative account to support operations (unlock, zone role)
• Starting with 17.11, a new Policy is introduced: “Automatic Account Maintenance using Administrative Account"
• When enabled, CPS uses the Administrative Account for SAPM operations
  Note: This policy has to be explicitly turned on.
• This greatly simplifies the process of adding AD accounts to Privilege Service

• In this release, we introduce a new domain permission “Add Account.”

  This permission is required for CPS administrators that have to add managed or unmanaged Active Directory account passwords into CPS.

  Existing users (even if they have the Privilege Service Administrator entitlement) will not be able to add Active Directory accounts until they explicitly add the permission under the target domain’s permissions tab.

New Features - Centrify Analytics Services and SIEM

Behavior-based access control for Server Access (Alpha Release)

• Centrify Infrastructure Services Standard / Enterprise Customers can:
  • Enable Behavior-based access control for every server access – login / privileged elevation
  • Easily understand Server Access within their Enterprise (with Insights)
  • Identify anomalous (with Explorer) Server Access based on past behavior on:
    • Time, Command, Target Server, Account, etc.
  • Forward Centrify Audit Events to Analytics Service via Centrify Sensor

Centrify Identity Platform Splunk Integration (Beta Release)

• Centrify Syslog Writer
  • Easy to install Docker container that works on Windows Server 2012, RHEL 6, RHEL 7
  • Gets Centrify Identity Platform access events (App Launches, Portal Access etc.) and forwards to a Syslog Server
• Centrify Identity Platform Splunk Add-On
  • Normalizes Centrify Identity Platform events in Splunk

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• A maximum of 20 devices may now be enrolled for each user. This is only enforced at enrollment time, so any devices already enrolled are unaffected (CC-53044).
• This release adds support for FIDO U2F authentication, however this is only supported natively on Chrome and Opera (CC-50450).
• When capturing an app using the browser extension for Firefox, it is now possible to specify additional fields (CISSUP-3460, CC-52619).
• Launching JIRA with IdP-initiated SSO now functions correctly (CC-52788).
• It is now possible to search for an app in the User Portal simply by typing its name. Hitting enter launches the app if there’s only one search result (CC-42822).
• With Safari 11 on a Mac, it is now possible to expand the Provisioning Script panel in the Provisioning tab (CC-52399).
• The email notification results from OATH token bulk import have had duplicates removed and are now accurate (CISSUP-3492, CC-52975).
• When uploading a certificate for a SAML application, the newly uploaded certificate is automatically selected for the app (CC-47919).
• Users are now de-provisioned correctly from custom SAML apps that use SCIM for provisioning (CC-52473).
• When using MFA, bad passwords are now logged as events when a password is the first challenge and the user failed to complete other challenges (CISSUP-3456, CC-52627).
• Revised, more intuitive UI for providing a date range for report generation (CC-52522).
• Users that are created and added to a provisioning role before any invitation has been sent by the admin are no longer shown as having a last invite date/time (CISSUP-3495, CC-52937).
• The policy summary no longer shows an Organizational Unit (OU) when no longer using device policy management Active Directory policy (CC-52252).
• When using App Store apps purchased under a Volume Purchase Plan (VPP), license details are now shown for apps from all app stores, not just the US (CISSUP-3427, CISSUP-3079, CC-52356).
• The option “Do not de-provision (deactivate or delete) users in target application when the users are removed from mapped role” is now checked by default for all provisioning apps (CC-51904).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

In case you hadn't heard, we will be upgrading our platform to version 17.10 this weekend (Sunday, November 19th).  The complete list of new features is available in the release notes, but as always I will tell you about my favorites here:

Improved Administrative Features

Normally I only write about 2 or 3 features, but this release includes several enhancements to existing functionality so I cheated and lumped 3 features into 1 

1. Parameterized reports: Our reporting engine has been updated to support reports that can be modified by updating specific parameters (e.g. Dates, Roles, Users, Applications, etc.).  Now, when creating custom reports, you can use the Parameters tab to allow the report to be easily modified with a few mouse clicks.  We've also updated all of the built-in reports that were time-bound, or applied to specific Roles or Resources to make those parameterized reports.  This means a single report can easily be modfifed direcly by the user running the report without requiring the user to save and modify the report script itself.
2. Workflow now supports actions when a manager is unknown: We've also updated our workflow engine to provide administrative control over the action to take in the event that the requestor's manager must approve a request but the requestor has no manager.  In the past, we would take the default action of assuming an approval and the UI would reflect that the step had been skipped.  Now, Admins can specify to take one of the following actions if there is no manager:
   1. Automatically Approve
   2. Automatically Deny
   3. Route to a Role our User
3. Easier email customization for foreign languages: Here's a feature that our multi-national customers will really appreciate which is better ability to customize our email messages in foreign languages and better visibility over what has been customized.  In the past, if you wanted to customize an email template, you'd have to change your browser locale in order to do that.  If you wanted to know if message for a particular language had been updated, you'd have to switch your browser locale to that language and look to see if there were a date for when the template had last been updated.  We've updated the interface to allow you to choose the language of the template that you want to update and update the template without requiring you to switch the browser locale.  More importantly, the table now shows which languages have been updated.

Form-Filling on Safari

As you probably know, we added support for Form-Filling in January.  If you are not familiar with this feature, this is the ability to go directly to a username / password site (instead of the User Portal) and login to that site with credentials stored in the Centrify platform.  This feature is enabled through the Centrify Browser Extension and had previously been available for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.  With 17.10, we have extended this functionality to the Safari browser!

OAuth 2.0 (Preview) Support

Finally, I am very excited to announce the Preview release of our OAuth 2.0 support!  For our customers and partners who are developing applications or integrating with our platform in other ways, this feature provides a simple and secure way to provide authorization and to scope which APIs a particular client may access.  This feature enables:

• Customers to securely build their own apps using our APIs,
• Better security when using our APIs, and 
• Better support for app to app authorization.

The feature is comprised of:

1. A new App Template for OAuth Server,
2. Ability to create a "user" in our directory as an "OAuth Confidential Client", and
3. The ability to Scope which APIs can be called by a specific client application.

For more information, please refer to the OAuth Section in our new developer site. 

We hope you like these new features and look forward to hearing your feedback!

New Features - Centrify Application Services (formerly known as Identity Services)

Parameterized Reports

Reporting engine now supports modifying reports by changing parameters:

• Date
• Role
• User
• Application, etc.
  
  
  

Reports updated as follows

• Built-in Reports modified to include parameters (date, application, etc.)
• Custom Reports can be built with parameters

Pin for Phone MFA

PIN is now required when using phone call for MFA.

• Admin specifies number of required characters (4-8)
• User can then create PIN (up to 8 characters)
• Phone Call will not show up in list for user if PIN has not been set

NOTE: in 17.10 this feature is only available for new tenants

OpenID Connect Ability to Pass Login URL for Authentication 

Use case is as follows:

• OpenID Connect App has a session timeout
• App is made available to users federated by another IDP (i.e. B2B)
• This specifies where to send the user to re-authenticate

Office 365 Linked Apps Support for Multiple SharePoint Sites

Deep link support now available for multiple SharePoint Sites.

• Linked Applications Wizard now provides ability for admin to specify URL of each SharePoint site

Form-Filling Support on Safari

Form-Filling (ability to go to a username / password app and login by clicking on the Centrify logo) is now available on Safari.

Active Users Report

This feature allows Admins to find out how many user licenses they are using.

• Built-in Report for “Active Users”

Active Users = users who have authenticated through the service in the last 30 days.

Workflow Options for No Manager

Admins can now determine what action to take for requests that require manager approval when there is no manager:

• Automatically Approve
• Automatically Deny
• Route to Role / User

Improved Multi-Language Email Customization

Email template customization now provides ability to customize the template without changing the browser language.

• Template selections allows Admin to choose which language to update
• UI now shows which languages have been updated

OAuth 2.0 (Preview)

This feature enables customers to better interact with Centrify's platform for app development and integration.

• OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization
  
  
• Focuses on simplicity and enables:
  • Customers to build their own apps using our APIs
  • Better security when using our APIs
  • Better support for app to app authorization
    
    
    

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

Endpoint Password Generation Profiles

Password generation profiles for Endpoints (Local Account Password Management) are now in a separate location under Settings.

• Settings > Endpoints > Endpoint Password Profiles
• Built-in “Mac Profile”
• New profiles can be created in-line in Policies, or from this page

The following apps have been updated:

• Elastica CloudSOC (SAML)
• ElasticaForCisco (SAML)
• Confluence On-prem (SAML)
• BackBlaze (User/Password)
• SonicWall (User/Password)
• JIRA Cloud (SAML)
• Paylocity Web Pay (User/Password)
• Inacct (SAML) – logo icon only

 The following apps have been renamed:

• Elastica  -->  Elastica CloudSOC
• Stash  -->  Bitbucket Server
• Windows Intune  -->  Microsoft Intune

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services (formerly known as  Privilege Service)

IIS Application Pool Identity - Password Management

• 17.10 adds support for IIS Application Pool Identity Password Management
• Versions: 7.5 (2008R2), IIS 8 (2012) and IIS 10 (2016)
• It uses CPS-managed Active Directory accounts with Multiplex accounts
• In this release, IIS Application Pool services can be onboarded manually
• In the next release, we are tracking the addition of discovery of IIS Application pool identities

Effective Rights Reports

• Infrastructure Services now offers the ability to produce effective rights reports for users and roles related to all objects (systems, accounts, databases, services and secrets)
• Reports leverage the “Parameterized Reports” feature of the platform
• Reports can be generated interactively or sent to the report requester via email in different formats
• Note:  for on-premises deployments, this feature requires PostgreSQL engine

 Effective Rights Report - Sample CSV Export (all objects)

Support for future date/time (login, checkout)

• Enhances workflow request to support future date/time login and password checkouts (like zone role workflow)
• Now assignment types can be permanent and windowed (instead of just permanent and time-bound)
• The requester can specify the assignment type and the first approver has the final say on what type will be granted
• This use case is consistent with change control requests approved for a maintenance window in the future

SSH Gateway Enhancements

• Banner (Infrastructure > Security)
  • To align with very common security guidelines
• Enable/disable (Connector)
  • Turned off by default (decreases exposure footprint)
  • Allows for segregation of duties (infrastructure components)
    
    E.g. an “App Gateway” connector is quite busy, just like an SSH Gateway.  If expecting heavy usage, you can segregate capabilities like AD/LDAP proxying, vs. dedicated gateways.
• Change port configuration
  • For customers wanting to run the SSH Gateway service in a non-standard port

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• Changes have been made in this release to harden the cloud service from Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) exploits. As a result of these changes, for SP-initiated SSO to succeed with SAML apps, administrators should do one of two things:
  
  
  • The ACS URL must be supplied in the app template with a matching domain to the URL that the SP comes back to the cloud service on.
  • Add an exception to Settings > Authentication > Security Settings > Specify trusted DNS domains for API calls.
    (CC-47996, CC-52930).

• Account unlock behavior has changed in this release. In previous releases, challenges could be removed if necessary to ensure that the user has the ability to pass through the unlock policy. In this release, the user must answer every challenge specified by the unlock policy. If a user cannot answer a challenge, the unlock attempt will fail. In most cases the system will recognize that the user cannot answer all challenges and will not even try to unlock, however in a few cases the user will still be presented with the first challenge (CC-51644).
• The date range condition used by authentication policies has been overhauled in this release to be more intuitive. The new date rules are as follows:
  
  Rule: Today's date is greater than XX/XX/XXXX
  Handling: Today's calendar date must be greater than XX/XX/XXXX
  
  Rule: Today's date is less than XX/XX/XXXX
  Handling: Today's calendar date must be less than XX/XX/XXXX
  
  Rule: Today's date is between XX/XX/XXXX and YY/YY/YYYY
  Handling: Today's calendar date must be greater than or equal to XX/XX/XXXX and less than YY/YY/YYYY
  (CC-50825).

• In the Security Dashboard, logins that don’t contain an “@” symbol are masked to reduce the chance of showing a user’s password in the dashboard if it was accidentally entered in place of the user name (CC-52295).
• msOrg-IsOrganizational for security groups now syncs correctly from Active Directory to Office 365 (CC-52764).
• Password reset is now supported on IBM Security Directory Server version 6.4 (CC-51035).
• It is now possible to set the maximum allowable clock drift for TOTP OATH tokens. Previously the value was set at 30 seconds, now it is possible to set the number of 30 second units (default 1) that the token clock may drift either side of the current time (CC-52769).
• Mobile Authenticator no longer creates notifications for abandoned or expired sessions (CC-50168).
• A new method has been added to SAML app script processing: createWebRequestWithBasicAuth (string applicationUrl, string username, string password) for http/https basic authentication (CC-52147).
• “User skipped” is now always shown in the provisioning report for skipped users that had been removed from the mapped role (CC-46397).
• A user’s Provisioned Applications page now shows the user having been provisioned for the application after the user was only partially updated during the sync (CC-44102).
• User detail > Provisioned Applications > Provisioning history now correctly shows role names instead of role IDs (CC-50691).
• When adding apps, apps in the Recommended tab are now alphanumerically sorted by default (CC-44708).
• With SCIM provisioning, de-provision now disables a user by default rather than deleting them (CC-51858).
• To prevent policies being created that are larger than devices can handle, a limit (default 5MB) is now enforced when saving the policy (CC-50671).
• Managed apps are now correctly cleaned up from the installed app list when unassigned (CC-51859).
• Device last location timestamp is now shown for administrator location tracking (CC-51704).
• The LDAP connection test has been updated to only verify the existence of the base DN, rather than verifying that there are entities under it. This change avoids timeouts with large numbers of second level entities that would be treated as a connection test failure (CC-51651).
• When an administrator sets an in-house SMTP server for email, email templates are now updated (CC-51585).
• Enrollments of Windows machines are now marked as corporate owned (CC-51200).
• With Android for Work, Gmail and Calendar apps are no longer uninstalled when assigned to the user (CC-50583).
• An issue that prevented users with the Privilege Service entitlement from seeing the Settings menu when using the Safari Web browser has been resolved (CC-50351).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

In case you hadn't heard, we will be upgrading our platform to version 17.9 this weekend (Saturday, October 21st).  The complete list of new features is available in the release notes, but as always I will tell you about my favorites here:

New Features - Centrify Application Services (formerly known as Identity Services)

Linked Applications

This feature enables customers to create separate app tiles for SSO apps that share the same authentication.

• Linked Applications tab in app configuration
  • Amazon Web Services
    
    
  • Office 365 (Preview)
    
    
  • Other SSO Applications
    • Custom SAML Apps
    • Custom OpenID Connect Apps
    • SAML / OpenID Connect Catalog Apps

PCI Compliance Update for MFA

User experience for incorrect logins when using MFA has been updated in order to achieve PCI compliance.

• Current Experience:
  • If user enters wrong information for first mechanism, authentication fails before asking for the 2nd mecahnism
    
    
• New Experience:
  • If user enters wrong information first, 2nd mechanism is still asked before authentication fail
  • If first challenge response is incorrect, the 2nd factor is not checked (i.e. email / SMS won't be sent)
    
    

Improved UX for MFA response through RADIUS

We now support out-of-band responses from our authentication mechanisms for RADIUS clients (e.g. VPNs).

• Users can authenticate through the authentication mechanism itself (e.g. push the code on Mobile Authenticator or click on the link in email / SMS)
  • No longer need to type in OTP
• New Configuration options under:
  • Settings> Authentication > RADIUS Connections > Clients

Ability to Rename Roles

Role names can now be edited and renamed. 

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services

Configurable LAPM Password Rotation

Admins can now control the password rotation period for managed local admin accounts.

• Default = 90 days
• Valid settings:
  • 1 day
  • 365 days
• New policy:
  • Policies > Mobile Device Policies > OS X Settings > Manage Local Admin Account> Periodic password rotation at specified interval (days)

Password Generation Profile for Mac

Admins can now set rules for the password complexity to use for the Local Admin Accounts on Macs.

• Settings > Infrastructure > Password Generation Profiles> Unix Profile

Password Checkout Error Handling

When using LAPM, an Admin may want to check out an Admin Password before the Cloud has confirmation from the Mac that the password has been changed.

• Now support a confirmation from the agent that the account has been rotated
• Password history can be provided If Admin checks out password before the confirmation is received

The following apps have been added to the catalog:

• Ivanti (SAML)
• SAP ERP ABAP (SAML)
• SAP CRM ABAP (SAML)

The following apps have been updated:

• Webex (User/Password)
• eBay (User/Password)
• CDW (User/Password)
• UPS (User/Password)
• iTunes Connect (User/Password)
• Hightail (User/Password)
• ScreenSteps Live (SAML)
• Eventbrite (User/Password)
• Canvas (SAML)

The following apps have been renamed:

• AVG CloudCare  -->  Avast Business CloudCare
• AVG Managed Workplace  -->  Avast Business Managed Workplace
• ProofHQ  -->  Workfront
• HEAT  -->  Ivanti

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services (formerly known as  Privilege Service)

Infrastructure Factory: Check Point GAiA™

• GAiA™ is Check Point’s Secure Operating System
• In this release, we are supporting shared account password management and secure session access.
• Versions:
  • R77.30
  • R80.10
• “Expert Mode” enhancement to follow in future release

Scheduled Discovery

• 17.9 adds scheduling to our Network Discovery
• Different discovery profiles can now be set to run on a schedule based on organizational needs
• A report is generated upon each run, outlining items discovered

Account-level Checkout Lifetime Override

• Allows granular definition of password checkout lifetime policies at the account level
• Useful to establish policy for end users at the global or system level, with the flexibility to establish policy at the account level for other use cases (such as system-to-system)

Linux Agent – Password Checkout for Database & Domain

• The CIP Linux agent has been updated to support for database and domain account password checkouts with the cgetaccount CLI utility
• The service account (system) should have the checkout permission in the target accounts
• Leverages --type parameter
  
  

Examples:

$ sudo cgetaccount --type domain centrify.vms/diana-a
$ sudo cgetaccount --type database sql2012a/sa

ServiceNow – Privileged Access Request (Domain+Database)

• ServiceNow is in the process of certifying Privilege Access Request 2.0.0
• This version adds support for database and domain account password checkout via ServiceNow’s Service Catalog
• Support to request “login” is available for local system accounts, it will be added to AD accounts in a future enhancement

New Features - Centrify Analytics Services

New Factor

“Account” has been added as a factor for Shared Account Password Management

Faster User Experience

Improved rendering engine.

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• Prompt is now supported with custom URLs with OpenID Connect (CC-45912). 

• SCIM provisioning is now available on all catalog apps, previously it was only available on generic (custom) apps (CC-50660).
• A new custom app type has been added: Linked Application, supporting OpenID Connect and SAML (CC-32809).
• Support has been added for multiple simultaneous policy management editors (CC-34579).
• Phone number validation has been updated to support recent Thai style changes (CC-51063, CISSUP-3334).
• Users of Apple devices managed by DEP and VPP v2 (token) can now update the App Store apps on their devices without creating their own Apple IDs (CC-49476).
• Successful RADIUS challenges no longer create a pair (one successful, one failure) of RADIUS log entries (CC-51501).
• Successful ZSO logins now correctly show the login reason on the User Activity dashboard and in the user’s detail page (CC-50700, CISSUP-3307).
• All devices now correctly show location in the User Portal when one of the devices is Windows 10 (CC-50315).
• Launch counts for App Gateway-enabled apps are now included in the source data for Most Commonly User Web Apps and Unused Web Apps reports (CC-39645).
• ZSO log in to the User Portal now records as login activity on the User Portal Activity page (CC-49444).
• When a policy is changed while a device is offline, the policy summary will now show “pending” for the device’s compliance until the device is returned online and the policy is successfully applied (CC-48699).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

In case you hadn't heard, we will be upgrading our platform (Centrify Application Services and Centrify Infrastructure Services) to version 17.8 this weekend (Saturday, September 9th).  The complete list of new features is available in the release notes, but as always I will tell you about my favorites here:

Browser Extension Pinning and SCIM GA 

Both of these features were made available as previews in 17.7, and are now available generally.   As a refresher, browser extension pinning allows you to set policies (under Policies > Application Policies > User Settings) to set the Centrify Browser Extension to a specific version.  This allows you to control if and when your users are prompted to install a new browser extension.

With the GA of SCIM, we now include the provisioning tab on all of the SSO apps (SAML and OpenID Connect) in our catalog.  In 17.7, SCIM was only available when using the custom templates.  In 17.8, we include provisioning for existing SAML and OpenID Connect apps.

In addition, to the above we've made several enhancements to existing features, including:

Support for Next Token Mode for RSA SecurID

As you may know, we have integrated with RSA SecurID through our RADIUS implementation.  Customers using this feature asked us to add support for Next Toke Mode (when RSA prompts the user to provide a 2nd token for added security -- this is typically required after too many incorrect passcodes have been entered).

Enhancements to Inbound Provisioning

Customers using our inbound provisioning feature (provisioning users into AD from Workday) had asked for a few enhancements and with this release we have delivered! Specifically, we've made the following enhancements:

1. Admins now have additional options for where to email the password for new employees when we generate that password.  In the past, a generated password could only be sent to a specific email address (e.g. an alias for an onboarding team).  With this release, you can now choose to send those generated passwords to any combination of the following:
   1.  specific email address
   2. user's manager, and/or
   3. user's personal email address
2. Admins can now specify an OU to place users in upon termination.  This helps to automate a business process whereby users who have left the organization are temporarily held in a specific OU.  Of course, this is done in addition to disabling the user's account in AD!

Enroll Mobile Device with QR Code

In 17.8, we've made enrolling a mobile device even simpler!  As you may recall, our invite-based enrollment policy allows users to enroll a mobile device without providing their credentials.  When this policy is enabled, users can enroll their devices without providing a username / password by using any of the 3 options in the User Portal (send SMS, send email or scan QR code).

We hope you like these new features and look forward to hearing your feedback!

New Features - Centrify Application Services (formerly known as Identity Services)

CBE Pinning

New policy to set Browser Extension Version:

• Set by latest version or specific version number
• When version is set to a specific number, User Portal will prompt for upgrade based on policy version rather than cloud release version
• Centrify will not force upgrade when policy is set 
  • Only latest version and 2 versions prior are supported
• Downloads shows all pinned versions (not available for Chrome) 

OpenID Connect and SCIM GA

OpenID Connect custom template is now GA (no longer appears as “Preview”).

SCIM provisioning support is now GA

• Custom template no longer displayed as “Preview”
• Provisioning tab added to all SSO catalog apps
  • SAML
  • OpenID Connect

Support for RSA SecurID's Next Token Mode

Periodically, users will be asked by RSA to provide the next token code

• E.g. after entering too many incorrect passcodes

Centrify's RADIUS implementation and UI have been updated to support this use case.

Enhancements to Inbound Provisioning

Admins now have the following options on where to email generated credentials:

• Specific email address
• User’s manager
• User’s personal email

Admins can now choose an option to assign users to an OU upon termination.

Bulk Upload Support for Extensible Directory Attributes

Admins can now add values for extensible directory attributes through a bulk upload

• CSV file is now generated on the fly to include columns for each extensible directory attribute

Additional User Portal Settings for UI

The Settings menu in the User Portal now gives users two additional options

• Change the size of the app icons
• Remove / Display app Titles

Enroll mobile device with QR code

Similar to invite-based enrollment, but with QR code from User Portal

• User scans QR code with Centrify app, and enrollment begins
• No Username / Password required
• Allow invite-based enrollment policy must be set to Yes

Android Managed Accounts

No more detailed setup with Google for Android Management

• Google accounts are created dynamically and without setup for GSuite
• Simplified Android Management
• See Android Management under Settings->Mobile to toggle modes
• Existing Android for Work users will need to re-enroll to switch modes

The following apps have been updated:

• Microsoft Partner Network (user / password)
• GSuite
• CloudLock (SAML)
• CloudAMQP (user / password)
• FastHosts (user / password)
• Kayak (user / password)
• Kroger (user / password)
• My Adobe (user / password)
• Sonicwall (user / password)
• Symantec PartnerNet (user / password)
• W3Schools Forum (user / password)
• Fortigate Firewall (user / password)
• Mimecast (SAML)
• Qmarkets (SAML + provisioning)
• Salesforce (SAML + provisioning)
• AbsorbLMS (SAML + provisioning)
• Wordpress (SAML)
• Liquidfiles (SAML)
• Frevvo Live Forms In-house (SAML)
• Docusign (SAML)
• AirWatch (SAML)
• Tableau (user / password)

The following apps have been renamed:

• Timeoffmanager   -->      PurelyHR

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services (formerly known as  Privilege Service)

Secure Shell Gateway – File Transfer

• Adds to the Secure Shell Gateway capability implemented in 17.7
• Users can establish file transfer sessions using shared accounts directly, and use their favorite client (e.g. WinSCP) without visiting the portal and leveraging the Centrify connector(s) as the gateway
• Maintains platform features:
  • Authentication Profiles (MFA)
  • Administrative SCP session termination
  • Access Request (Workflow)

Password Complexity Profiles

• Allows the ability to set up password complexity rules at the global or system level
• Centrify provides a set of built-in rules that are QA-validated to work on supported classes of systems
• Granularity to define password length, additional requirements, special characters, leading or trailing characters
• Built-in profiles are tied to corresponding system classes
• This is a foundational capability to support systems such as IBM i and other upcoming capabilities

IBM System i

• The IBM System i (formerly AS/400) platform enjoys large penetration in highly-regulated enterprises (mostly seen in banking)
• The underlying OS (OS/400) relies heavily on shared accounts (profiles), therefore Shared Account Password Management is a must
• Versions supported (6.1 and above) using the SSH Server daemon
• The Password Profile feature can be leverage to onboard IBM i systems with different password rules

Session Size Preferences

• This highly-requested feature allows end-users to set their preferred privilege session window size for SSH (web client) and RDP (local & web client)
• The preference is set per browser

PowerShell samples support for AD and Database Accounts

• 17.8 updates the sample PowerShell scripts
• Add / Moves / Changes (Get, Set & Remove) of local, AD or database accounts
• Get-CIPAccount can be used to retrieve passwords. Make sure the system service account has the view+checkout permissions in the target account
• Use the  domainname or databasename parameters to specify the account type

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• RADIUS challenges are now supported for RADIUS authentication, however RADIUS accounting is not currently supported. Note that if you are using external RADIUS (such as RSA SecurID) you must upgrade Connectors to 17.8 for full functionality (CC-46766).
• After enrollment, the default on Android devices for the Settings -> Show All Applications option is now checked (CC-49463).
• Room objects are no longer mistaken as users during Office 365 provisioning (CC-47843)
• MS-LDAP users can now log in and be invited to the User Portal. Microsoft LDAP uses a slightly different dialect to other LDAP servers and this is now supported (CC-50060).
• The forgot user name self-service feature now accepts user email addresses regardless of entered case (CC-49486).
• Errors no longer generated when provisioning GSuite users (CC-50156, CISSUP-3254).
• In the Box and GSuite provisioning apps, Active Directory users are no longer removed from AD groups when a user’s attributes are updated (CC-47102).
• With the Wordpress SAML app, Active Directory users’ Active Directory groups are now updated to Wordpress (CC-46252).
• The Wordpress SAML app now honors the “Allow unlisted users” checkbox (CC-46251).
• Active Directory computer users are now tagged as service users automatically. Note that existing AD computer users will not be tagged until they log in again (CC-50059).

• The SSH gateway feature no longer reports authentication failed when the authentication profile that applied to the user had two consecutive password options (CC-48695).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

New Features - Centrify Application Services (formerly known as Identity Services)

Applications Dashboard

New dashboard highlighting apps in the platform

• Pie chart showing:
  • Status
  • Type
  • Provisioning Status
  • App Gateway Status
• Lists showing:
  • App Details
  • Total App Launches in last 7 Days
• Pie-charts are drill-able
  • List views are filtered based on charts

[Preview] Centrify Browser Extensions Pinning (Available by Request Only)

New policy to set Browser Extension Version.

• Latest version or specific version number
• When version is set to a specific number, User Portal will prompt for upgrade based on policy version rather than cloud release version
• Centrify will not force upgrade when version is et, however, Centrify will only support current version and 2 versions prior
• Downloads shows all pinned versions (N/A for Chrome)

[Preview] SCIM Provisioning 

SCIM is an open standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems.

• Custom SSO templates now contain a Provisioning tab
  • Custom SAML App
  • Custom OpenID Connect App
• Previously deployed custom apps using this template can now be updated to include provisioning (if the app supports this feature)

Updates to User Portal

Account Page Redesign:

• Cleaner design on the “Security Settings” page
  • Passcodes feature is now separated out onto its own tab
• Settings Menu moved to User Portal Banner (on Apps and Devices pages)
• Grouped / Grid toggle moved to the Settings Menu
• Refreshed Activity page with Map widget, Login / Denied Logins, App Usage and Activity Stream 

Easy Navigation to Job Provisioning Report for User

When troubleshooting provisioning events for a particular user, Admins need a way to find the right report for those events.

• Drill-Down in Users page now includes links to each report

Mobile Features – iOS Notification improvements

MFA actions no longer require going to the Centrify app

• Reduce app flipping for all notifications
• Only actions that require in-app functionality are flipped (for example, Require Fingerprint on MFA respond)

Mobile Features – iOS Activation Lock Bypass codes

Administrators now have access to the Activation Lock Bypass code

• When wiping device, activation code must be entered from original user
• Admin can look up bypass code for managed devices
• Customers can open a support ticket to retrieve unenrolled/deleted device bypass codes

Mobile Features – OATH OTP Push

OATH Codes in Passcodes can now be “pushed” to the respective tenant (similar to mobile authenticator)

• Allows MFA to multiple tenants from a single client enrollment
• After selecting OATH OTP MFA Method - Go to Passcodes in the Centrify app, and tap the tenant you are trying to log into

Mobile Features – Proxy profiles for Android WiFi

Proxy configuration settings can now be set and sent to Android devices (previously only Samsung and iOS).

The following apps have been added to the catalog:

• Expensify (SAML)
• HipChat (SAML)

The following apps have been updated:

• 15Five (SAML)
• Cloudera (User/Password)
• Cognology (SAML)
• SumoLogic (SAML)
• Yahoo Mail (User/Password)
• 15Five (SAML)
• Amazon Germany (User/Password)
• Atlassian Customer Portal (User/Password)
• com (User/Password)
• Cloudera (User/Password)
• Cognology (SAML)
• Evernote (User/Password)
• Float (User/Password)
• net (User/Password)
• Google apps (SAML)
• HRS (User/Password)
• LiveDrive (User/Password)
• MilitaryHire (User/Password)
• Mimecast Personal Portal (User/Password)
• SumoLogic (SAML)
• Yahoo Mail (User/Password)
• Zenefits (User/Password)

The following apps have been renamed:

• ShiftPlanning     -->          Humanity

New Features - Centrify Endpoint Services (formerly known as  Identity Service)

Mac Updates

Centrify Agent for Mac:

• Centrify Agent for Mac on the Centrify Identity Services Download page
• Support for Munki Unattended Uninstall
• Dynamic policies for non-Apple MDM policies

New Features - Centrify Infrastructure Services (formerly known as  Privilege Service)

Secure Shell Gateway 

• Improves usability and deployment flexibility by allowing users to establish SSH connections (manual or with shared accounts) via the Centrify Connector(s) as a Jumpbox without visiting the admin portal.
• Maintains platform features:
  • Authentication Profiles (MFA)
  • Watch and Terminate
  • Access Request (Workflow)
  • Agentless DirectAudit (if available)
• You can use this feature for native SSH clients on Windows, UNIX/Linux and Mac OS.

Built-in Reports for Secrets

• Available via Core Services > Reports > Built-in Reports > Systems > Secrets
• All Secrets (contains secret size) & secrets by type
• Modified Secrets (last 7 days)
• Retrieval Counts (most popular secrets)

Resolved Issues and Behavior Changes

The following list records issues resolved in this release and behavior changes.

• In 17.6 and earlier, when syncing groups for Office 365 provisioning they were incorrectly synched to a depth of 2. When the sync traverses to the second level, immutable IDs were not properly mapped for migrated users and this could cause group sync to fail, depending on timing. From 17.7 sub-groups are no longer synced unless explicitly included for sync (CC-48105).
• In the Box provisioning page, the option “Allow personal folder to be synced by Box clients” has been renamed to “Sync all personal folders to admin’s desktop via Box Sync”. The function of this option has not changed, but the label has been changed to better reflect the functionality (CC-47392).
• External CA revocation checks are now performed on a per-CA chain basis (CC-48358).
• IWA now works for the Ring Central desktop app (CC-48942).
• Sha256, sha384 and sha512 have been added as options for the algorithm and digest method for encrypted keys in SAML apps (CC-48526).
• Custom CBE internal apps now function correctly on iOS devices after the built-in browser’s cache is cleared (CC-48007).
• An issue was resolved where Connectors could not reach Active Directory domain controllers. The issue was caused by a failure to retrieve the distinguished name of the NTDS settings object from a domain controller running in Windows 2008 Domain Mode. Any registry changes implemented during 17.6 to work around this issue should be removed with this new release (CISSUP-3178, CISSUP-3180).
• Connectors will now connect to any available domain controller if the Connector does not belong to any site (CC-48052).
• Active Directory per-user customization (for example, OATH tokens) are no longer removed when a Connector is removed (CC-49334).
• The correct license type for Office 365 ProPlus is now shown in the license summary, previously it would show “officesubscription” (CC-48528).
• IWA now succeeds with the Ring Central desktop app when configured for single sign-on (CC-48942).

For security advisories and known issues, please see attached file.

Note: To receive release notes prior to the monthly product update, subscribe to the Centrify Cloud Highlights and Release Notes Tech Blog. This release information is posted in advance of the release date. Please check back at release time for updates.

In case you hadn't heard, we will be upgrading our platform (Centrify Identity Service and Centrify Privilege Service) to version 17.6 this weekend (Saturday, July 8th).  The complete list of new features is available in the release notes, but as always I will tell you about my favorites here:

MFA Policies for User Account Settings

We have added security improvements to enable policies to require users to provide additional authentication factors when doing the following:

• changing passwords,
• configuring OATH OTP clients,
• setting security questions, or 
• modifying their profile.

All of these policies now appear under a new heading called "User Account Settings" (you will also note that we moved a few policies from other areas to make use of these policies more convenient).  For each of these policies, the Admin can choose which Authentication Profile should be called when the user makes these changes. 

Admin Control over Signing Certificates

With this release we have also given control to Administrators to better manage the signing certificates used by our service.  As you probably already know, Google recently cracked SHA1 certificates and as a result many service providers have announced that they will deprecate support for SHA1 certificates.  If you have a Centrify tenant that was created before July 2016, then the default certificate used by your tenant is SHA1.  As you probably know, when using a signing certificate for SAML, you can upload your own certificate so you can use one with a stronger algorithm; however, we wanted to address this problem in a more turnkey manner and wanted to give you more control over your options.  In 17.6 you will see that we have a new Signing Certificates feature that works exactly as our Authentication Profiles feature works.  We now have a "Signing Certificates" page in our "Settings" menu for managing certificates, and we leverage that page directly in the App configuration UI (Admins can choose a certificate from a drop-down menu, or create a new one).  

If you want to change a certificate for an application, don't forget, you will need to go into the administrative console for that application and upload the new signing certificate in order to make sure your SSO still works.  For Office 365, we have automated that step through a new "Re-Federate" option.

In addition to the above, this release includes two performance improvements that I wanted to call out:

1. Addition of "Sets" in Users, Apps and Endpoints.  Why is this a performance improvement?  The Sets UI enables the Admin to set a default view for each of those pages based on the filter selected.  More importantly, Admins can set their default view to have nothing selected so that pages with long lists (e.g. the Users page) loads immediately, as the default view is simply the search bar!
2. Intelligent selection of Connectors for IWA and RADIUS.  With 17.6, we have improved our connector selection logic to first look for a matching IP address, then a matching sub-net and if neither are found then to randomly select a connector.

We hope you like these new features and look forward to hearing your feedback!

New Features - Centrify Identity Service

MFA Policies for User Account Settings

MFA Everywhere – now able to set policies requiring step-up authentication for:

• Password changes
  
  
• Configuring OATH OTP client
  
  
• Setting Security Question
  
  
• Modifying Personal Profile
  
  
  •  All policies under Policies > User Account Settings
  • “Show QR code for self-service” and “OATH OTP Display Name” policies moved from “OATH OTP”
  • “Enable users to change passwords” moved from “Password Settings”

Sets Added to Identity Service Tabs

Optimized page viewing and performance by grouping large lists into Sets of like items:

• Users
• Apps
• Endpoints
  • Click Set name to filter list
  • Set Default using ellipsis menu
    • All page visits for that user will remember the selection
    • Sets UI slides in and out on click
    • To improve page load performance, choose “Remove as default” (and remove check mark) for page with no results (search only)

Intelligent Selection of Connectors

Previously, calls to connectors for IWA and RADIUS were made randomly.  Connectors are now selected based on IP address as follows:

• Choose Connector with matching IP Address
  • Randomly choose between Connectors when there are multiple matches
• Choose Connector with matching sub-net
  • Randomly choose between Connectors when there are multiple matches
• Randomly choose Connector
  
  

Dropbox Provisioning Support for Union

Admins can now choose to provision users into Dropbox using the following options:

• Union of all Groups, or
• Single Group

Improved 3rd Party RADIUS Support

When setting up 3rd party RADIUS authentication, some systems do more than a simple username / password authentication and need additional time to complete the request.

• Default value of 5 (seconds) is set
• Values from 5 to 55 are valid

Admin Control over Signing Certificates

Admins can see and manage all certificates in use in their tenants under
Settings > Authentication > Signing Certificates

• Older tenants (created prior to July 2016) used SHA 1 certificates by default, and later tenants used SHA256
• App UI has been updated to include a pick-list for choosing which certificate to use
  • Office 365 certificate is now exposed
  • Office 365 re-federate option to push new certificate

Mobile Features – Policy to Disallow Incoming Calls

New policy to prevent incoming calls on device