Lastline Defender and Analyst Hosted Release Notes

Version 6.6

New features

  • Email analysis improvements
  • IDS improvements

Email analysis improvements

  • Increased performance: this version significantly increases the number of emails per hours that a Sensor can process (the actual rate depends on the hardware and the type of email traffic).
  • Support for SSL/TLS and STARTTLS for SMTP (both sending and receiving).
  • Increased robustness during email processing/delivery.

For in-line MTA mode:

  • Better handling of nexthop server errors, including the generation of Delivery Failure Notification messages. Notifications can be sent to the original sender of the email and/or a configured email address.
  • Ability to customize the email subject tag added when suspicious/malicious content is found.
  • Ability to customize the text used to replace blocked URLs.
  • Note: the format of the text added to the body of email messages has changed as compare to previous versions.

IDS improvements

  • Fix for a problem that allowed IDS signature events to indicate blocking via TCP RSTs when blocking is actually disabled.
  • Performance and robustness enhancements.

Released appliance versions

As part of this release, we are making available the following versions of Lastline appliances:

  • Lastline Sensor version 608.1

Deprecation of API methods

The following API methods of the legacy API (/ll_api/ll_api) are being deprecated in this version:

  • query_file_downloads
  • query_binaries/binaries
  • query_downloaded_files
  • set_appliance_geoposition
  • query_network_status
  • switch_to_key
  • switch_to_timezone

The Lastline API documentation includes a deprecation schedule for methods in the legacy API, as well as information on how to replace usage of these deprecated methods with supported methods.

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