Release Notes - 1.9.0

Owned by Jon Taylor
Last updated: Mar 09, 2022 by Alexander Eck
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Nanitor announces version 1.9.0, a milestone release of the Nanitor platform, now available!

With Nanitor organisations can accurately collect, analyse, report and prioritise security issues that are affecting their IT assets. Nanitor provides compliance, security and risk officers with the visibility and control they need to effectively manage cyber security.

Nanitor is committed to continual improvements to our cyber security platform, delivering best-in-class real-time analysis of security configurations, vulnerability risk management, reporting, and analytics.

Dynamic Risk-Based Prioritisation

Core to the Nanitor platform is the need for meaningful intelligence that pushes organisations towards improved cyber security. Compliance, risk, and security officers can use Nanitor to effectively categorise assets, which directly impact security issue importance. With dynamic risk-based prioritisation organisations can focus on the most important issues at any time.

Security Operations Dashboard

Address your security landscape by improving the clarity of your cyber security posture. With the Nanitor RISC dashboard, your operations teams stay focused on the most important issues at any given time, enabling accurate tracking and risk prioritisation using the Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability triad.

Compliance Frameworks & Regulatory Requirements

Nanitor introduces support for the use of multiple parallel compliance frameworks, giving assurance that you are addressing the issues that are most important to your company as part of regulatory and cyber security requirements.

Nanitor introduces reporting against key cyber security compliance frameworks, including:

  • ISO 27001 Information Security Management Standard,

  • PCI DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard,

  • NIST 800.53 Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organisations,

  • SAMA CSF Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority Cyber Security Framework,

  • NCA ECC National Cybersecurity Authority of Saudi Arabia, Essential Cybersecurity Controls, and

  • CIS CSC Center for Information Security Critical Security Controls.

New Reports

New reports included in the Nanitor platform are:

  • Issue prioritisation

    • Prioritised list of issues using asset criticality (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) rating.

  • Activity log

    • Detailed log of events that Nanitor is monitoring and using for issue identification and prioritisation.

  • Compliance Framework

    • Key reporting for corporate stakeholders that shows compliance status.

Additional platforms supported:

  • New Cloud Security Configuration Benchmark support for Office365.

  • New OS support for Red Hat Enterprise 8 and CentOS 8.

  • New Application support for Microsoft IIS 10.0.

  • New Database support for MySQL 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0, enterprise and community.