What's New

This release supports ISA8000 and ISA6000 hardware devices.

This version is a hardware enablement release. The following are the improvements in this release:

Secure Boot with TPM: The Secure Boot feature offers protection against unauthorized bootloader and kernel images, malware, and rootkits, and ensures compliance with security by design principle while improving boot time. For more information, see Secure Boot with TPM/vTPM .

•Rotate Internal Storage Key: This process encrypts sensitive information like passwords when storing them internally and ensures the encryption key is unique and random for every IPS instance. For more information, see Rotate Internal Storage Key .

•Shared Secret key: This feature configures a Shared Secret for each source/target pair at time of creation of Push Config Target. For more information, see Configuring Targets .

•Password key Generation: New API's introduced to generate and fetch the password key. For more information, see APIs .

•Next Generation Web server: The Next Generation Web Server has been developed to enhance the performance and scalability of web server infrastructure. For more information, see Next Generation Web Server . Web server logs are implemented for web-related event codes with debug severity. Fore more information, see Debug Logs .

•SELinux Security Policy: The IPS system provides an Enforcing only SELinux capability, ensuring that even the root user or admin cannot switch SELinux to permissive mode without rebooting the system. For more information, see SELinux Security Policy. 

•Verbose Log: Administrators can toggle SELinux verbose logging to control the detail level of SELinux-related logs. For more information, see SELinux Verbose Log .