CISCO Secure Workload SaaS Software User Guide

CISCO Secure Workload SaaS Software

Specifications

• Product Name: Cisco Secure Workload SaaS
• Release Version: 3.9.1.25
• Release Date: April 19, 2024

Product Information
The Cisco Secure Workload platform provides comprehensive workload security by establishing a micro perimeter around every workload. It offers features such as firewall and segmentation,
compliance and vulnerability tracking, behavior-based anomaly detection, and workload isolation. The platform utilizes advanced analytics and algorithmic approaches to enhance security  capabilities.

Cisco Secure Workload SaaS Release Notes, Release 3.9.1.25

First Published: 2024-04-19
Last Modified: 2024-04-19

Introduction to Cisco Secure Workload SaaS, Release 3.9.1.25

The Cisco Secure Workload platform is designed to provide comprehensive workload security by establishing a micro perimeter around every workload. The micro perimeter is available across your on-premises and multicloud environment using firewall and segmentation, compliance and vulnerability tracking, behavior-based anomaly detection, and workload isolation. The platform uses advanced analytics and algorithmic approaches to offer these capabilities.
This document describes the features, bug fixes, and behavior changes, if any, in Cisco Secure Workload SaaS, Release 3.9.1.25.

Release Information

• Version: 3.9.1.25
• Date: April 19, 2024

New Software Features in Cisco Secure Workload, Release 3.9.1.25

Integration
Integration of Cisco Vulnerability Management for

Deep CVE Insights with Cisco Risk Score for Prioritization

| To assess the severity of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE), you can now view the Cisco Security Risk Score of the CVE, including the attributes on the Vulnerabilities page. Use Cisco Security Risk Score to create inventory filters, microsegment policies to block communication from the impacted workloads, and virtual patching rules to publish the CVEs to Cisco Secure Firewall.

For more information, see Vulnerability Dashboard, Cisco Security Risk Score- Based Filter, and Cisco Security Risk Score Summary.

Hybrid Multicloud Security
Visibility and Enforcement of

Well-known IPv4 Malicious Traffic

| You can now detect malicious traffic from workloads to well-known malicious IPv4 addresses. To block any traffic to these malicious IPs and to create and enforce policies, use a predefined read-only inventory filter Malicious inventories.

Note This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, please contact Cisco TAC.

Enhancements in Cisco Secure Workload, Release 3.9.1.25

• The following software agents are now supported:
  • AIX-6.1
  • Debian 12
  • Solaris zones
• Ubuntu 22.04 as Kubernetes node
• Support is now restored to the software agent, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
• The traffic page now shows the SSH version and ciphers or algorithms used in the observed SSH communications.
• Cisco SSL component inside Windows agent now operates in FIPS mode.
• AIX agent forensic now detects and reports SSH login events.
• Windows agent CPU and memory usage have improved.
• Windows agent impact on network throughput has reduced.
• Secure Connector support has been added to Cloud Connectors.
• Label Management Change Impact Analysis: You can now analyze and preview the impact of changes in label values before committing the changes.

Changes in Behavior in Cisco Secure Workload, Release 3.9.1.25
Clusters force agents to refresh the client certificate if the certificates are close to expiration.

Known Behaviors in Cisco Secure Workload, Release 3.9.1.25
For more information on known issues for Cisco Secure Workload software release, refer Release notes 3.9.1.1.

Resolved and Open Issues
The resolved and open issues for this release are accessible through the Cisco Bug Search Tool. This web-based tool provides you with access to the Cisco bug tracking system, which maintains information about issues and vulnerabilities in this product and other Cisco hardware and software products.
You must have a Cisco.com account to log in and access the Cisco Bug Search Tool. If you do not have one, register for an account.

Note
For more information about the Cisco Bug Search Tool, see the Bug Search Tool Help & FAQ.

Resolved Issues
The following table lists the resolved issues in this release. Click an ID to access Cisco’s Bug Search Tool to see additional information about that bug

able to push rules from CSW to FMC
CSCwi98814| Error retrieving attack surface details for workload in security dashboard
CSCwi10513| Agent installed on Solaris Sparc is unable to monitor ipmpX devices with IPNET frames
CSCwi98296| tet- enforcer crashes on registry corruption
CSCwi92824| RO user cannot see workspace matching inventory nor scope inventory of their own scope
CSCwj28450| Realtime events not captured on AIX 7.2 TL01
CSCwi89938| API Calls for CSW SaaS Platform result in bad gateway
CSCwi98513| Azure cloud connector inventory ingestion issue with VM NIC with multiple IPs

Open Issues
The following table lists the open issues in this release. Click an ID to access Cisco’s Bug Search Tool to see additional information about that bug.

API] Agent Network Policy Config need to show enf status consistent with data shown in UI
CSCwh95336| Scope and Inventory Page: Scope Query: matches .* returns incorrect results
CSCwf39083| VIP switchover causing segmentation issues
CSCwh45794| ADM port and pid mapping is missing for some ports
CSCwj40716| Secure Connector configuration gets reset during edits

Compatibility Information

For information about supported operating systems, external systems, and connectors for Secure Workload agents, see the Compatibility Matrix.

Related Resources
Table 1: Related Resources

Secure Workload Documentation| Provides information about Cisco Secure Workload,

its features, functionality, installation, configuration, and usage.

Cisco Secure Workload Platform Datasheet| Describes technical specifications, operating conditions, licensing terms, and other product details.
Latest Threat Data Sources| The data sets for the Secure Workload pipeline that identifies and quarantines threats that are automatically updated when your cluster connects with Threat Intelligence update servers. If the cluster is not connected, download the updates and upload them to your Secure Workload appliance.

Contact Cisco Technical Assistance Centers
If you cannot resolve an issue using the online resources listed above, contact Cisco TAC:

• Email Cisco TAC: tac@cisco.com
• Call Cisco TAC (North America): 1.408.526.7209 or 1.800.553.2447
• Call Cisco TAC (worldwide): Cisco Worldwide Support Contacts

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