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 Title:                       XPU 53 Release information

 Number:                 24      Date: 16 th November 2006
 

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XPU 53 Release information

Introduction

This Assuria Bulletin announces the availability of XPU 53, which introduces new internal features to Assuria Auditor.

This XPU is fully compatible with the Assuria Auditor and ISS System Scanner range of products, and is managed by the Assuria Auditor Console (formerly ISS System Scanner Console).

Transition to Assuria

Assuria and ISS have been working closely together on a 12 - 18 month program to achieve the seamlessly transition of ISS System Scanner customers to Assuria and Assuria Auditor.

XPU 48 introduced the first feature that was a result of the transition program and subsequent updates have added further underlying features.

Assuria will be generating Licence keys for customers in the future and XPU 48 introduced Console support for Assuria generated licence keys in addition to keys generated by ISS using the ISS WOS system.

XPU 49 –> 53 have introduced Console and Agent support for code, check and policy signed by Assuria in addition to ISS.

The next steps

The final piece of this process is X-PressUpdate.exe - the XPU download / installation program. 

Assuria’s plans are that a new version of the XPressUpdate.exe will be available in mid December 2006. This version is currently undergoing extensive testing by Assuria.

The Users view of X-PressUpdate.exe transition.

The Users view of this final step will be:

- Users will receive notification of the availability of a new XPU via an Assuria Bulletin.

- Users will initiate XPressUpdate.exe in the normal way to obtain the new XPU and will receive a message to say "A new version of XPressUpdate.exe is available, do you wish to download this new version".

- Users should respond “Yes” the new version of XPressUpdate.exe will be downloaded and will then replace the current ISS version and restart a new Assuria version.

- The new XPressUpdate.exe (Assuria AutoUpdate) program will automatically 'point at' the Assuria AutoUpdate Web site and will ‘search for’ and download the latest XPU from the Assuria download area.. Note that XPUs / X-Press Updates are to be called AutoUpdates by Assuria.

- Users will install the Assuria AutoUpdate onto their Console with no change in normal process.

Subsequent AutoUpdates will be downloaded from the Assuria AutoUpdate area by the Assuria AutoUpdate.exe and will require no further or special action by Users.

Disclaimers

ISS, System Scanner, X-Force and X-Press Update are trademarks of Internet Security Systems Inc. 

Assuria Auditor powered by Internet Security Systems.
Assuria Auditor is a trademark of Assuria Limited.

 

 

Features introduced at this Update release

 

Assuria signed Assuria Auditor components

This XPU provides updates to the Assuria Auditor agents for:

  • HPUX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11 and 11.23 (PA-RISC)
  • Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 & 4
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

These agents will now accept agent components signed with either an Assuria key or an ISS key. Users do not need to take any special action at this time. Assuria Auditor will continue to support all current ISS signed components.

Anti Virus Keys

 

The user configuration virus keys have been updated on windows platforms to include

  • McAfee Security Center
  • AVG AntiVirus

 

 

Files issued with this Update

 

Console update

 

    o Updated Files

      - treeutils.tbc

      - scrolledhtml.itk

 

Agent updates

 

Updates are included for the following agents:

    o HPUX  (Version 10.20 PA-RISC)

    o HPUX  (Version 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 PA-RISC)

    o RHEL  (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

    o Windows (2000 Professional, 2000 Server, 2003 Server)

 

HPUX  (Version 10.20 PA-RISC)

    o New Files

     - bin/procs/proc_packages.tcl

     - ssl/assuriaCert.pem

 

    o Updated Files

     - bin/checker

     - lib/verify/libverify.so.0.0.0

     - lib/verify/libverify.so.0.0.0.sgn

 

    o X-Press Update Files

      - rulesets/unarchivePolicy

      - signatures/rulesets/unarchivePolicy.sgn

      - lib/xpud3_53.zip

      - lib/xpud3_53.sgn

 

HPUX  (Version 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 PA-RISC)

    o New Files

     - bin/procs/proc_packages.tcl

     - ssl/assuriaCert.pem

 

    o Updated Files

     - bin/checker

     - lib/verify/libverify.so.0.0.0

     - lib/verify/libverify.so.0.0.0.sgn

 

    o X-Press Update Files

      - rulesets/unarchivePolicy

      - signatures/rulesets/unarchivePolicy.sgn

      - lib/xpud3_53.zip

      - lib/xpud3_53.sgn

 

RHEL  (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

    o New Files

     - bin/procs/proc_packages.tcl

     - ssl/assuriaCert.pem

 

    o Updated Files

     - bin/checker

     - lib/verify/libverify.so.0.0.0

     - lib/verify/libverify.so.0.0.0.sgn

 

    o X-Press Update Files

      - rulesets/unarchivePolicy

      - signatures/rulesets/unarchivePolicy.sgn

      - lib/xpud3_53.zip

      - lib/xpud3_53.sgn

 

WIN2000

    o New Files

     - bin/procs/proc_packages.tcl

     - ssl/assuriaCert.pem

 

    o Updated Files

     - bin/checker.exe

     - lib/verify/verify10.dll

     - lib/verify/verify10.dll.sgn

     - userconf/antiVirusKeys

     - userconf/serviceTemplate

 

    o X-Press Update Files

      - rulesets/unarchivePolicy

      - signatures/rulesets/unarchivePolicy.sgn

      - lib/xpud3_53.zip

      - lib/xpud3_53.sgn

 

WIN2000 Server

    o New Files

     - bin/procs/proc_packages.tcl

     - ssl/assuriaCert.pem

 

    o Updated Files

     - bin/checker.exe

     - lib/verify/verify10.dll

     - lib/verify/verify10.dll.sgn

     - userconf/antiVirusKeys

     - userconf/serviceTemplate

 

    o X-Press Update Files

      - rulesets/unarchivePolicy

      - signatures/rulesets/unarchivePolicy.sgn

      - lib/xpud3_53.zip

      - lib/xpud3_53.sgn

 

WIN2003 Server

    o New Files

     - bin/procs/proc_packages.tcl

     - ssl/assuriaCert.pem

 

    o Updated Files

     - bin/checker.exe

     - lib/verify/verify10.dll

     - lib/verify/verify10.dll.sgn

     - userconf/antiVirusKeys

     - userconf/serviceTemplate

 

    o X-Press Update Files

      - rulesets/unarchivePolicy

      - signatures/rulesets/unarchivePolicy.sgn

      - lib/xpud3_53.zip

      - lib/xpud3_53.sgn

 

 

 
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