Release Date – 28 April, 2022
What’s New
Seqrite HawkkProtect includes the following features.
Dedicated Visibility Tab
- Create user and application hierarchy and view real-time connection flow between the users, applications/services across your organizational IT infrastructure.
- Generate graphic presentation of user and connection statistics for all application services.
- View complete details for connection between users and applications/ services such as detection time for attempted connections, source IP address, destination IP address, user details, and applications/ services details. View status for policies applied to users.
Tag Management
- Create static tags using key and value pairs and assign them to users and applications.
- Create dynamic tags using attributes fetched from IdP/ application parameters. These tags are assigned to the users and applications automatically.
- Granular and custom policy rules can be created using tags.
Effective Policy Management
- Create explicit allow policy rules using user and application tags for granting enterprise application access only to required users.
- Create policies with Observe mode ON to monitor specific connection attempts.
Other features
- IdP management: Identity Providers (IdP) are used to manage users and access privileges in organizations.
- Site management: Site is the gateway which is automatically deployed on Seqrite AWS cloud account. You can configure it by choosing appropriate IdP and Certificate details.
- Application catalog: A list of organizational applications and services to which connections are attempted.
- App connector management: App connectors allow the user to safely access private organizational applications and lets you integrate on-premise AD without the use of VPN.
Known Issues
Some of the important known issues in version 1.0.3 are as follows.
- User portal SAML logout with google IDP is not working.
- Admin portal is not supported on Safari browser for HawkkProtect v1.0 release.
- In RDP application, user is able to access all the applications from the file explorer option.
Work around: The administrator can use AD 2016 options on the UI to configure AD 2019 as an IDP. - If Entity ID and Reply URL are modified from the UI, reauthorization does not work for Google workspace IdP.
- Names of policies, certificates, and applications is appearing in lowercase across few pages.
- For all the IdPs, if users are deleted, the policy access rules related to the user are not getting removed from HawkkProtect.
- In globe view, incorrect user location might be visible sometimes.
- ‘Incorrect username/ password’ error is displayed for users for whom Administrator has selected ‘user must change password at next logon’ option in On-premise AD.
- The relative URL path is not appended to the URL if a user directly accesses the application instead of accessing it via user portal.
- Password based authentication does not work for WebVNC.
- For web RDP port type; after the application is minimized, user is not able to maximize the application.
Workaround: The user must wait for one minute. After one minute, the user can relaunch the application from the application portal. - CPU utilization of the client machine is very high when tried to load the connections on the visibility page.