Details of new and updated features, as well as known and resolved issues for Dynamic User Protection.
ForcepointNeo is a cloud-managed, highly efficient endpoint monitoring platform that runs on Windows and macOS.
Following instructions detail the steps for installing Neo agent on the endpoints in your organization. Follow these steps only if you are a new user of Forcepoint Neo. If you are deploying both Forcepoint Neo and Forcepoint DLP, follow the installation steps for Risk-Adaptive DLP.
If you have previously installed Neo on your endpoints, you can update to the latest version manually, automatically when a new version is available, or on demand to meet your schedule.
The Neo endpoint provides the capability to send data to Forcepoint Web Security Cloud for analysis through either a proxy connection or a direct connection.
Risk-Adaptive DLP ingests Forcepoint DLP data into Forcepoint Dynamic User Protection to perform user-centered modeling and analytics to profile user risk.
Neo cloud portal supporting login via SAML identity providers. This helps the user to login to the Neo cloud portal using SSO. It improves the Neo cloud portal user access experience and eases cross-platform login.
Complete the following steps to configure the Neo cloud portal with the Amazon S3 bucket. This allows replicating the objects like Alerts, Events, or Audit logs from the Neo cloud portal to the Amazon S3 buckets.
Signing in to the ForcepointNeo portal with multi-factor authentication ensures that your account remains secure.
The Dashboards provide overview on user, endpoint and devices activity.
Investigation displays a list of all your end-users, allowing you to view and filter all their activities at a glance or to drill down for further information.
The Endpoint management dashboard is used to view and manage your endpoints.
The Settings dashboard provides access to user configuration for your organization. Administrators can use this dashboard to set up accounts and view tenant information. Analysts do not have access to this dashboard.
Generate PDF or CSV reports on users, devices, alerts, and endpoints.
Enhanced protection for Forcepoint Neo endpoints using a release code.
New features and product updates added in this release.
macOS support extended in Neo 22.12.
Audit log view is enhanced.
Device control prevents data loss via removable storage devices (set the device to read-only), and can protect the endpoints from data copied to the endpoint from removable storage devices.
Improved Neo web control interoperability.
Administrators can control ForcepointNeo endpoint operational mode from the ForcepointNeo cloud portal, for advanced troubleshooting and compatibility with 3rd party applications.
For a specific domain user, who has logged on with more than one endpoint, the risk score will be synchronized.
New alerts tab from Investigation page.
Apple processor support extended in Neo 21.11.
macOS support extended in Neo 21.11
Navigation to alerts investigation view from User overview dashboard.
Bulk deletion of multiple endpoints.
General user experience and performance improvements.
Forcepoint Neo 21.10.01 is a hotfix release that contains performance improvements and several bug fixes.
The Endpoint overview dashboard displays high-level view of the status of Neo endpoints in your organization.
Enhanced protection for Neo endpoints. A release code is now required to uninstall the Neo endpoint.
Generate PDF and CSV reports on user activity and Neo endpoints from dashboard widgets and data tables.
Allows Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway end users to disable or enable the Neo web control.
Neo web control now checks for both the original process file name as well as the current process file name.
Neo endpoint supports hybrid web customers.
Access the Neo portal from Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway without entering login credentials.
Neo diagnostic tool is used by Forcepoint support to troubleshoot issues on the endpoint.
Added 16-August-2021 Forcepoint has released a hotfix for Neo that contains performance improvements and product improvements.
Added 14-July-2021 This release adds usability enhancements to the management portal, including updates to the appearance and functionality of the Executive overview, Investigation, and Endpoint management dashboards.
Added 14-July-2021 This version adds a new Neo classifier for Windows and macOS endpoints.
Added 14-July-2021 Forcepoint Web Security Cloud customers can now install Neo on Mac endpoints to analyze web traffic through either a proxy connection or a direct connection. Neo for macOS is only supported on Intel endpoints running Big Sur 11. Neo is not supported on endpoints running the M1 chipset.
Added 14-Apr-2021 Forcepoint Web Security Cloud customers can now install Neo to analyze web traffic through either a proxy connection or a direct connection. This release supports Neo installation on Windows endpoints.
Some issues have been fixed and integration with Forcepoint DLP is improved.
Added 14-July-2021 This release adds support for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for Windows.
Added 25-Mar-2021 This update adds a new type of management portal user, Analyst, and adds information to the Settings dashboard.
Added 25-Mar-2021 Usability enhancements to the management portal include improved performance and updates to the Endpoint management dashboard.
Added 15-Feb-2021 If you have previously installed Neo on your endpoints, you can update to the latest version manually, automatically when a new version is available, or on demand to meet your schedule.
Added 15-Feb-2021 This update introduces support for installing Neo on macOS endpoint machines.
Added 15-Feb-2021 The Endpoint management dashboard now displays the Neo agent status for each endpoint.
Added 15-Feb-2021 This update enhances the Investigation dashboard with an improved design, filtering, and additional information.
Added 15-Feb-2021 Multi-factor authentication is now available when signing in to the Dynamic User Protection management portal.
Added 10-Dec-2020 Dynamic User Protection version 20.12 is a correction release that includes improvements and fixes, some requested by our customers.
Added 06-Oct-2020 Forcepoint is pleased to announce the initial release of Forcepoint Dynamic User Protection, a user activity monitoring solution designed to alert organizations of risky user behavior so they can protect data and reduce risks.
This update introduces support for installing Neo on Windows 11.
Refer to the Forcepoint Knowledge Base for details of current known issues and former issues that have been resolved.