Enhancements

This release of the product includes these enhancements.

Enhancements in Forcepoint NGFW version 7.0

Enhancement Description
Action options are now configurable in the Inspection Situation Tree Action options can now be configured for situations directly in the inspection policy's Inspection tab where the global inspection situation tree with Permit and Terminate actions are configured.
Re-factor and optimize dynamic DNS matching DNS based rule matching has been enhanced to optimize the rule matching speed.
Blacklist and Whitelist terminologies are not used in customer views The old terminologies "Blacklist" and "Whitelist" are replaced with "Block List" and "Allow List" respectively.
Enhanced version of the SNMP Agent used by default in NGFW Engine version 7.0 When upgrading to NGFW 7.0, with SNMP Agent enabled in configuration, NGFW engine automatically switches to enhanced SNMP Agent. For more information, see Knowledge Base article 41106 .
4096 bit RSA key support for Browser Based User Authentication (BBA) Browser Based User Authentication (BBA) HTTPS settings now support generating 4096 bit RSA key certificate request for the BBA server component.
IPv6 small packet performance has been improved. Packet processing performance has been improved for small IPv6 packets.
Policy changes are installed faster for remote NGFW Engines With policy refresh only files with configuration changes are uploaded to the NGFW Engine. Rules alone are now stored on their own configuration file reducing amount of data to be uploaded to NGFW Engine with just a policy change. As result policy refresh for remote engines behind slow throughput Internet connection is faster.