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Release Notes Benchmark (Version 2.4)
Tanium Benchmark 2.4.63
Release Date: 29 August 2023
Features
- Added a new feature that allows (admin) customers to define their preferred organization name in the Benchmark workbench settings.
- Added support for Tanium Certificate Manager to Tanium Benchmark for existing metrics and future metrics and workflow enhancements.
- Added 5 new Benchmark Metrics in the Operations category.
- Domain Membership
- High Disk Consumption
- High Memory Consumption
- High Server Uptime
- High Workstation Uptime
- Added 10 new Benchmark metrics to the Security category.
- Firewall Disabled
- LSA Protection Disabled (LSASS as PPL)
- Remote UAC Local Account Token Filter Disabled
- Secure Powershell Execution Policy Not Enforced
- Secure USB Storage Policy Not Enforced
- User Account Control Disabled
- Windows Data Execution Prevention (DEP) Disabled
- Windows Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Not Enabled
- Windows Workstation Antivirus Disabled
- Windows Workstation Antivirus Out of Date
Improvements
- Added Benchmark Health reporting for all of the new metrics.
- Added support for the latest SSL/TLS Server Audit Tanium Core Content.
- Added additional filtering improvements for Benchmark Metrics Health reports.
- Added additional help information to Benchmark User Interface (UI) graphs when a metric has no measureable endpoints in the environment for the selected Computer Group.
- Added filtering improvements for several Metrics.
- Transitioned existing "Insecure TLS/SSL" and "Expired Certificates" Risk vectors to Certificate Manager for auditing and data collection.
- Added new Tanium solution entitlement detection capabilities.
- Added support for managing Certificate Manager port exclusions for Benchmark customers.
- Deprecated existing SSL Server Audit Core Content, Scheduled Actions, and data collection.
- Renamed "Antivirus Out of Date" and "Missing Antivirus" Metrics to "Windows Defender Disabled", "Windows Defender Out of Date".
- Renamed "Missing Disk Encryption" to "Windows (Systems) Missing Disk Encryption".
- Removed "Is Virtual" filter from Enforce TPM Not Enabled metric to include for Virtual TPM (vTPM) reporting.
- Fixed hover text tooltip date for Risk Vector Calculation information.
- Improved Benchmark content removal on uninstall or entitlement change.
Fixes
- Updated the Administrative Access metric to use Domain Role content source instead of Domain Member.
- Updated the Benchmark Goal API implementation to correct percentages reporting when displaying goals information.
- Modified TPM health report to no longer show unsupported endpoints.
- Updated sensor data collection for "Enforce - Anti-Malware Definition Outdated" metrics.
- Improved metrics graph display when a metric is collected for the first time after previously having no reportable data.
- Updated drill-down chart graphics to never be below the X axis.