April 29, 2025
Assure Security 7.0.22.00–Service Pack Notification
Announcement
Precisely announces the release of Assure Security enhancements, designed to make your user experience more intuitive, strengthen your data security, and enable your product adaptability in cloud environments. To acquire these enhancements, you will need to implement Assure Security Service Pack 7.0.22.00.
This release provides either a new installation or an upgrade from all previous release levels of Assure Security 7.0 and 6.0.
Summary of Feature Additions
This release includes several enhancements including:
Enhancements to Assure Multi-Factor Authentication
The Web UI interface for MFA has undergone continuous improvements. This release includes several enhancements based on user feedback and functionality advancements:
- Enhanced user management capabilities, allowing users to display, sort, search, filter, and update user information.
- Increased efficiency through the ability to copy rules.
- Improved management of rule activation and visibility by incorporating a status field in the rule creation wizard.
- Expanded MFA defense for SFTP file transfers and user sessions accessing the IBM i system, providing better access and data protection.
Integration with Illumio to Incorporate IBM i into Your Zero Trust Strategy
To further safeguard the IBM i system against security breaches, integration between Illumio and System Access Manager (SAM) offers an additional layer of protection:
- Intelligent filtering enhances the existing security framework and integrates seamlessly with other platforms to protect the IBM i environment.
- Micro-segmentation mitigates breach impacts and prevents threats from propagating throughout the network.
- Zero-trust principles for data-in-transit facilitate and ensure regulatory compliance.
- Automated retrieval and import of Illumio policies into SAM, along with monitoring capabilities, enable security administrators to confidently implement these policies.
- Returning information to Illumio through SYSLOG transfers allows better control of information regarding monitored transactions.
Addition of Product Level Security Distribution of Lakeview
Allow the Lakeview configuration to be copied from one install library into another on the same or different LPAR to more efficiently manage Product Level Security.
Reminder
Encryption Mode Update and Impact
With the release of Service Pack 7.0.15.00 in April 2024, we added a new encryption mode, Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) to replace Counter (CTR) mode. If you upgraded to that Service Pack or later, all new encryption definitions use the CBC encryption mode. All encryption definitions created and activated prior to the 7.0.15.00 Service Pack are encrypted using the CTR encryption mode.
We want to remind you of the following information:
- The new CBC mode of encryption provides a stronger encryption algorithm than the previous CTR mode.
- We strongly encourage you to update to this feature as soon as feasible to provide continuous protection to your data.
- The transition from CTR to CBC mode will require you to end field encryption on existing fields and start field encryption using a new field procedure definition. [The detail steps for discovering encrypted fields and changing them to the new mode can be found in the Assure Security Encryption documentation.]
- If you are interested in a more automated process, please reach out to your Account Executive to discuss an "Encrypt While Active Solution."
Our team is on standby to provide comprehensive support and assistance throughout this process. Feel free to contact us for detailed guidance or if you need help at any stage of the update.
Access to the Software Downloads
Precisely Data Experience
Precisely Data Experience allows customers to access their licensed products for download. To access the software, you must have a Precisely (Customer or Partner) Community account established and have license entitlement. To download the software: Use the Precisely Data Experience link.
If you are licensed to Assure Security and do not see that product in the list, please
contact Precisely Support by opening a case at https://support.precisely.com/contact/
Improved access to Assure Security Documentation
Assure Security product documentation is available in a new online format in the Precisely Help Center.
The Precisely Help Center provides a modern experience to help you quickly locate content, personalize your experience, and provide feedback. The Help Center enables you to:
- Search for help across the entire documentation set
- Bookmark topics and create a personalized content library
- Save your searches and get alerts when content is added or changed
- Print selected topics
- Share a link with a colleague
- Send us your feedback and rate content
To access the Precisely Help Center:
- Go to the Precisely Help Center (https://help.precisely.com)
- Click on Assure Security
- Log in using your Precisely Support login (if you don't have a login, create one in the Customer or Partner community).
- Filter, click, or enter search terms to begin.
Minimum Requirements
Products:
- Assure Security 6.0 or higher to upgrade
IBM i OS Levels supported:
Tested browsers for the Assure Security Web User Interface:
- Current versions of Google® Chrome™, Firefox® Stable Channel and Microsoft® EdgeTM
Supported Windows OS for the Installation Wizard:
- Windows® 10, Windows® Server 2016, Windows® Server 2012 R2, Windows® Server 2019
Contact Information
If you would like technical assistance, please contact the Precisely Global Support team at Precisely Support.