Release Notes 2024

June 2024

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in June 2024.

• Sensitive Data Protection now available for OneDrive: Nightfall now supports sensitive data protection in Microsoft OneDrive for Business. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Sensitive Data Protection now available for Teams Chat: Nightfall now supports protection of sensitive data in Microsoft Teams for chat messages. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Bulk Remediation for Google Drive Violations: Nightfall now supports bulk remediation for violations reported in Google Drive. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Ability to Detect UK and Canadian Street Addresses: Nightfall has enhanced the Street_Address detector to detect UK and Canadian street addresses. Click here to learn more about this detector.

• Ability to Detect UK Phone Numbers: Nightfall has enhanced the Phone_number detector to detect UK and Canadian street addresses. Click here to learn more about this detector.

• Exfiltration Protection for macOS Devices (early access): Nightfall now supports exfiltration prevention in macOS devices.

May 2024

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in May 2024.

• Launch of Firewall for AI: The rebranded and retargeted version of Nightfall Developer platform is now available as Firewall for AI, which focuses on Generative AI model building. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Nightfall Data Exfiltration for Google Drive: Nightfall has launched exfiltration prevention platform. Google Drive is the first tool that is currently supported by Nightfall for exfiltration prevention. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Sensitive Data Protection for Gmail: Nightfall now provides security against sensitive data exposure through emails; specifically Gmail. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Ability to Include and Exclude Drives in Google Drive Policies: Nightfall now provides you the flexibility to include or exclude specific drives from being scanned. you can configure these settings while creating a Google Drive policy. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Updates to ID document Classifiers: Nightfall has now updated the detectors that pick up shared drivers licenses, passports, credit cards, and us social security cards. Click here to learn more about this detector.

April 2024

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in April 2024.

• Nightfall Sensitive Data Protection (early access): Nightfall sensitive data protection for emails is now available for early access. With this feature, you can protect sensitive data in your emails sent through Gmail. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• In-product Announcements: Nightfall has now introduced in-product announcements. You can click the question mark icon a the bottom right of your screen from any Nightfall page and select the News option to view the latest announcements.

• Support for directory Sync via Identity Providers (early preview): Nightfall now supports the Directory Sync feature. This feature is available in early access. With this feature, you can now import users and user groups via identity providers like Google Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. Click here to learn more about this feature.

March 2024

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in March 2024.

• Introduction to GitHub Deduplication feature: Nightfall has introduced the deduplication feature for GitHub integration. This feature automatically detects and prevents duplicate entries of GitHub violations on the Violations page. You can refer to this document to learn more about this feature.

February 2024

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in February 2024.

• Introduction of APIs to detect sensitive data: Nightfall has now introduced APIs to detect sensitive data in SaaS applications. You can use these APIs to You can use these APIs to fetch violations, search through violations, annotate findings, and so on. You can navigate to this link for API documentation for SaaS applications.

• Introduction of the Independent ML Services: Nightfall now uses independent Machine Learning services to enable Real-Time File Scanning.

• Enhanced Database Connection String Detector: The Database Connection string detector is now updated. This detector can now recognise URI-based, driver-based, and key-value pair based connection strings. Click here to learn more about this detector.

• Enhancements to the Password Detector: The Password detector is now enhanced to recognise commonly used password placeholders in code. These placeholders are no longer identified as violations by the detector, thus reducing the false positive cases. Click here to learn more about this detector.

• New "Ignore All" Option for Google Drive Violations: Nightfall now allows you to ignore all the current and future Violations arising out from a specific file in your Google Drive. Click here (refer to step 5) to learn more about this feature.

January 2024

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in January 2024.

• Improvements to the Person Names Detector: The Person Names detector is now enhanced to recognize synthetic names from Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and Colombia countries.

• New Pending and Resolved Tabs in Violation Management: The Violations page now has two new tabs, Pending and Resolved. The Pending tab displays the list of Violations to be resolved and the Resolved tab displays the list of Resolved and Ignored Violations.

• Improvements to the Street Address Detector: The street address detector is now enhanced to identify Spanish and Portuguese street addresses, resulting in enhanced address detection.

• Improvements to the Password Detector: The Password detector is now updated to recognize and ignore commonly used development environment passwords, environment variables, and encrypted passwords.

• New Ignore All Option for Google Drive Violations: Nightfall now allows you to ignore all the current and future Violations arising out from a specific file in your Google Drive.

• Automatic Annotation and Auto Resolution of Findings: Nightfall now allows you to automatically annotate all the findings that are similar to a Finding. With this feature, if all the Findings of a Violation are false positive the Violation is automatically ignored.

• Introduction of Custom Date Range Filters: Previously, you could filter historic Dashboard and Violation data using fixed time frames like Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, and so on. Nightfall now allows you to set custom date range filters on the Dashboard and Violations pages.