Release Notes 2025

This document lists all the features released by Nightfall in 2025.

February 2025

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in February 2025.

Support for macOS User and Group-Based Policies: Nightfall now allows you to include or exclude specific users and user groups from being monitored by the mac policy. You can configure these settings in the filter section on the scope page of mac OS policies. Click here to learn more about this feature.
Support for macOS File Upload Blocking (early preview): Nightfall now allows you to automatically block files with sensitive data from being uploaded to untrusted sites. Click here to learn more about this feature.
Support for Human Firewall (end-user remediation) in macOS Policies: You can now configure macOS policies to notify end users about their actions that triggered violations, thus empowering them to take suitable actions. Click here to learn more about this feature.
Support to inspect content in Endpoint policies: You can now leverage Nightfall detection rules to scan endpoint policies for sensitive data like PCI, PII, passwords, and so on. Click here to learn more about this feature.
Ability to Create Endpoint policies for MS Windows (early preview): Nightfall now allows you to create exfiltration policies for Microsoft Windows OS. Click here to learn more about this feature.
Search Filter Operators for Exfiltration Events: Nightfall now provides you with numerous search operators to filter the Exfiltration events and view only the desired events.
Introduction of Customer Referral Program: Nightfall now allows you to refer Nightfall to your colleagues, friends and other acquintices. You can win awesome rewards with this program. Click here to learn more.
Enhancements to the Person Name and PHI Detectors: Nightfall has enhanced the capabilities of the Person name and PHI detectors. these detectors are now capable of generating very less false positive alerts.
Introduction to Automated Supervised Learning : With the Automated supervised learning feature, Nightfall detectors can now automate model retraining based on real-time customer feedback, thus enhancing detection accuracy. Currently, API Key and Password detectors are using this feature.

January 2025

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in January 2025.

Enhanced Detector Accuracy: Nightfall has enhanced the detection capabilities for keys from specific vendors. These enhancements greatly reduce the rate of false positive detections. The vendors are as follows.
- Ping Identity
- Auth0
- Box
- Plaid
- Cohere
- Elastic Search
- Datadog
Horizontal Scaling: Nightfall has now enhanced the machine learning infrastructure. With this improvement, the Nightfall platform is now robust enough to automatically scale to meet fluctuating demands.
Introduction of Custom Branding: You can use the custom branding feature to replace the default Nightfall logo with your organization's logo on all the alert emails generated by Nightfall. Click here to learn more about this feature.

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February 2025

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in February 2025.

Support for macOS User and Group-Based Policies: Nightfall now allows you to include or exclude specific users and user groups from being monitored by the mac policy. You can configure these settings in the filter section on the scope page of mac OS policies. Click here to learn more about this feature.

Support for macOS File Upload Blocking (early preview): Nightfall now allows you to automatically block files with sensitive data from being uploaded to untrusted sites. Click here to learn more about this feature.

Support for Human Firewall (end-user remediation) in macOS Policies: You can now configure macOS policies to notify end users about their actions that triggered violations, thus empowering them to take suitable actions. Click here to learn more about this feature.

Support to inspect content in Endpoint policies: You can now leverage Nightfall detection rules to scan endpoint policies for sensitive data like PCI, PII, passwords, and so on. Click here to learn more about this feature.

Ability to Create Endpoint policies for MS Windows (early preview): Nightfall now allows you to create exfiltration policies for Microsoft Windows OS. Click here to learn more about this feature.

Search Filter Operators for Exfiltration Events: Nightfall now provides you with numerous search operators to filter the Exfiltration events and view only the desired events.

Introduction of Customer Referral Program: Nightfall now allows you to refer Nightfall to your colleagues, friends and other acquintices. You can win awesome rewards with this program. Click here to learn more.

Enhancements to the Person Name and PHI Detectors: Nightfall has enhanced the capabilities of the Person name and PHI detectors. these detectors are now capable of generating very less false positive alerts.

Introduction to Automated Supervised Learning : With the Automated supervised learning feature, Nightfall detectors can now automate model retraining based on real-time customer feedback, thus enhancing detection accuracy. Currently, API Key and Password detectors are using this feature.

January 2025

This section enlists the feature enhancements released by Nightfall in January 2025.

Enhanced Detector Accuracy: Nightfall has enhanced the detection capabilities for keys from specific vendors. These enhancements greatly reduce the rate of false positive detections. The vendors are as follows.

Ping Identity
Auth0
Box
Plaid
Cohere
Elastic Search
Datadog

Horizontal Scaling: Nightfall has now enhanced the machine learning infrastructure. With this improvement, the Nightfall platform is now robust enough to automatically scale to meet fluctuating demands.

Introduction of Custom Branding: You can use the custom branding feature to replace the default Nightfall logo with your organization's logo on all the alert emails generated by Nightfall. Click here to learn more about this feature.