Welcome to version 16.1.0! This update brings significant improvements across the platform, including a more intuitive navigation experience, brand-new compliance frameworks, enhanced risk scenario tracking, and a host of stability and performance upgrades.

Here is a summary of what is new, changed, and fixed in this release.

🌟 Highlights & Key Features

  • ‍Unified Navigation Experience: We have redesigned the left-hand navigation menu. Instead of navigating separate menus for each service, you can now access all platform services from a single, unified nested menu.
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  • ‍New Compliance Frameworks: We are thrilled to announce out-of-the-box support for NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and NERC CIP controls.
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  • ‍Automated Welcome Emails: The platform now supports automated welcome emails for new users, ensuring a smoother onboarding experience.
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  • Enhanced Risk Scenarios: We've overhauled how Threat and Method data interacts within Risk Scenarios, providing much deeper tracking for Protective and DCR (Detective, Corrective, Responsive) controls.

🛠️ Module Updates - Platform & Core

  • Data Export: Added the ability to export generic CSV files across various platform entities.

Governance & Compliance

  • Organizationally Defined Parameters (ODPs): Expanded ODP capabilities significantly. You can now define, list, and filter ODPs with new configuration options, including descriptions, types, and calculation flags.
  • Framework Management: Users can now create and upload custom frameworks.
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  • Compliance Tracking: Improved the interface for viewing compliance requirements. You can now easily pull summaries of controls and view specific asset dependencies tied to your compliance requirements.

eLearning

  • Dynamic Status Updates: Training statuses will now automatically update to "In Progress" the moment a user begins answering questions.
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  • Clean Deletion: Enhanced the module deletion process to ensure all associated data is cleanly removed from the system.

Profile Management

  • Certifications: Added a new suite of tools to create, view, and list user Certifications.

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  • Workforce Directory: Added a new Workforce list feature, allowing managers to easily pull and view directories of user profiles.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Stability

  • Caching: Improved memory caching logic to prevent data staleness and ensure you are always seeing the most up-to-date information.

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