Release Notes 2024

September 2024

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

• Ability to Search Within Google Drive Event Attributes: Nightfall now allows you to search Google Drive Events by using the values from Google Drive Event Detail View. You can now search and filter Google Drive Events with Google Drive shared drive name, Link settings, Shared with internal users & groups, Shared with external users & Group, File owner, and Last edited by attributes. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Introduction of Events and Policies in Data Encryption (early preview): Nightfall has now introduced Events and policies in Data Encryption. You can now create policies in Data encryption and view Event data for these policies. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Sender, Recipient, and Domain Filtering in Email DLP: Nightfall now allows you to configure Email DLP policies to include or exclude specific senders, recipients, and domains for monitoring. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Support for Okta as an Identity provider (early preview): Nightfall now allows you to perform Directory Sync by using Okta as an Identity provider. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Slack User and User Group Filtering (early preview): Nightall now allows you to configure Slack policies by filtering specific users and user groups. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Detector for Philippines Tax ID Number (early preview): Nightfall has now introduced a detector that can detect the TIN (tax ID number) in Philippines. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Improvements to the PHI Detector: Nightfall has now enhanced the PHI detector. This enhancement ensures improved data output handlings, greater accuracy in file classification, greater model precisions, and validation of findings. Click here to learn more about this feature.

August 2024

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

• Detectors for Southeast Asian Countries: Nightfall has released new detectors which support sensitive data protection for southeast asian countries namely Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. Click Standard PII - APAC to learn more about the detectors.
• Risk Scoring: Nightfall now allows you to rank violations in accordance to the risk associated with them. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• New Vendor Specific API Key Detectors: Nightfall has launched vendor specific API key detectors for four vendors namely OPenAI, Pagerduty, Databricks, and, Hugging Face. Click here to learn more about the detectors.

• Introduction of Exfiltration Prevention for Salesforce (early access): Nightfall now supports exfiltration prevention for Salesforce. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Enhanced Image ID Detectors: Nightfall has significantly enhanced the capabilities of image ID detectors. These enhancements reduce false positives and improve detector coverage. Click here to learn more about the detectors.

• Unified Events Page: Nightfall has now unified all the events across all the products on a single page. Going forward, Violations would now be known as Events. Click here to learn more about the feature.

• Ability to Exclude Applications from Google Drive Exfiltration: Nightfall now allows you to exclude applications from being monitored in Google Drive exfiltration policies. Click here to learn more about the feature.

• Introduction of Lineage-Based Policies in macOS (early preview): Nightfall has now introduced endpoint lineage and lineage based policies for macOS. Click here to learn more about the feature.

July 2024

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

• Introduction of Data Exfiltration and Posture Management for Google Drive: The Google Drive integration is now equipped with exfiltration prevention and posture management capabilities. For more information, refer to this document for exfiltration prevention and this document for posture management.

• IDP Integration with Corporate Directory Services: Nightfall now supports directory service in Microsoft Entra and Google Directory. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Introduction to Nightfall Data Encryption: Nightfall has now introduced data encryption for the Gmail integration. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Sensitive Data Protection to Emails: Nightfall can now scan your emails for sensitive data. This feature is currently available in Gmail. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Introduction of AI-powered Automated Labelling in Google Drive (early preview): Nightfall now allows you to use Labels in Google Drive policies. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Introduction of Role Based Access Control (RBAC): Nightfall now supports RBAC for better resource management. Click here to learn more about this feature.

• Improved Navigation Bar: The Nightfall application's navigation bar is now enhanced for better user experience. You can view the latest navigation bar by logging in to Nightfall.

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 (early preview): 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.