Secure Endpoint Agent release notes - Version 7.13

If automatic agent updates are disabled, you can assign an agent version to your account's Windows and Mac devices to prevent agent upgrades. To determine if you want to assign agent version 7.13, review this topic to learn about the improvements included in this version of the Secure Endpoint Agent.

About the Secure Endpoint Agent

The Secure Endpoint Agent is a small software client that resides on devices that are managed in the Secure Endpoint Console. After the agent is initially installed on a new device, it is activated with the first connection to the Absolute Monitoring Center.

Each agent package includes software specific to its supported operating system, including the agent and its associated agent components, an installer, and a readme file.

System requirements

The 7.13 package bundle contains Secure Endpoint Agent software that now supports devices running the following operating systems:

Operating system Supported versions
Windows Versions 7, 8.1, and 10
macOS Versions 10.13 to 10.15

NOTE  The Data Delete security action is not supported on macOS 10.15. If you currently use Data Delete to protect your devices, we recommend using macOS 10.13 or 10.14.

Agent improvements and fixes

Version 7.13 of the Secure Endpoint Agent includes improvements and fixes to the following agent components:

Platform Component Component version Improvements and fixes
Windows

Anti-Malware

(AVP)

1.0.1.25
  • Logging and error handling improvements.

Component manager

(CTES)

1.0.0.2339
  • The component manager now supports HTTP compression of downloaded binary files.
  • Logging, error handling, and performance improvements.

Core Service

(CtesPersistence)

2.0.0.231
  • CTESPersistence now makes use of an embedded intermediate certificate during the CTES certificate chain validation. You no longer need to open remote access to Certificate Authorities or manually download and install the intermediate certificate if the certificate is missing from the local store.

Device Usage

(DUR)

1.0.2.25
  • Further updates have been added to a fix introduced in agent version 7.12.0.2. The DUR component's scan results are now successfully compressed for upload.
  • Logging, error handling, and performance improvements.

Full-Disk Encryption

(ESP)

1.0.1.23
  • Logging and error handling improvements.

Firmware Persistence Management

(Instt64)

8.972.0.0
  • New Toshiba Dynabook devices are now correctly identified, and the devices' Persistence Status is now reported correctly.

Inventor

(Identprv)

8.874.1.19
  • The correct Persistence status shows for devices with more than three Wi-Fi adapters.
  • The boot status is reported for Windows devices running Windows 10.

Remote File Retrieval Utilities

(Cdta)

1.0.0.23
  • Remote File Retrieval requests that include a large number of file types no longer return an empty file.

Web Usage

(WMA)

7.13.1.4
  • The Chrome extension is now named Absolute Analytics in the Chrome Web Store.
  • The permissions for the Chrome extension have been updated to "Read and change your data on 127.0.0.1" from "Read and change your data on localhost".

Wipe

(SDW)

1.0.1.14
  • When a Wipe request is configured to restart a wiped device, the device is now restarted as expected, even if it is configured to restart on a schedule.
  • Previously, if the following BitLocker setting was enabled, a user may have been able to use the remotely backed up recovery key to access files on the wiped device:

    Do not enable BitLocker until recovery information is stored to AD DS for operating system drives

    The component now disables this setting during the Wipe process.

Mac

Component manager

(CTES)

1.0.0.2339
  • The component manager now supports HTTP compression of downloaded binary files.
  • Logging, error handling, and performance improvements.

Data Discovery

(DARAgent)

7.13.1.2
  • The Data Discovery component no longer scans any .sparsebundle folders or .sparseimage files found on a Mac device. Previously, when these files were present, the scan may have taken a long time to complete, or they may have been falsely identified as sensitive data.
  • When a Mac device's files are stored in OneDrive with the Files On-Demand feature enabled, and local copies of the files do not exist, the files are no longer downloaded during a scan for sensitive data.

Geolocation (Classic)

(Geo)

0x0100000a
  • Previously, when Google Maps Wi-Fi Positioning was used to locate a Mac device, the device's location failed to be calculated if the device detected a very large number of Wi-Fi hotspots. This issue is now fixed.

Software Information

(Sysinfo)

0x0148
  • Software information is now collected when Spotlight search isn't available on Mac devices.
  • Software information is collected on devices running macOS 10.15.

Wipe

(SDW)

1.0.0.40
  • The Secure Endpoint Agent now detects if the user specified in the Wipe request doesn't have administrative rights. If this is the case, the following text now shows in the Status > Failure reason column on the Action History page: "The input user does not have administrative rights".