Release notes - Guardium Insights Version 3.3.0
IBM® Guardium® Insights is a hybrid cloud data security hub that helps you improve visibility into user data activity and risk. Guardium Insights helps you protect data more efficiently, enhance information technology flexibility, and reduce operational costs as you embrace new business paradigms (such as moving data to the cloud). Guardium Insights helps reduce the cost and complexity related to collecting, managing, and retaining data security and compliance data. It provides new analytics to enhance threat investigations - and it provides quick reporting functionality (including prebuilt reports). Risk scoring and alerting in Guardium Insights help you prioritize your activities.
Version 3.3.x This content only applies to Guardium Insights Version 3.3.x.
Guardium Insights is a powerful tool that can help you secure your data. Simple to use, Guardium Insights allows you to set up connections to your data sources.
Guardium Insights provides tools to help you analyze data:
- Outlier mining: Detecting anomalies in activities and exceptions.
- Risk events: Identifying assets at risk using broad data points.
- Reports: Dive into the raw data for deep investigation.
Contents
Download Guardium Insights v3.3.0
Guardium Insights V3.3.0 can be downloaded as an archive file (2.3.0.tar.gz) from: https://github.com/IBM/cloud-pak/tree/master/repo/case/ibm-guardium-insights
You can install only the products for which your site is entitled.
For further instructions, read the README.md file located after unzipping the latest tar file.
The Quick Start Guide for this offering is available at Passport Advantage (https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage) (search for Part Number “M0H7GML”).
Install Guardium Insights v3.3.0
Before installing Guardium Insights, review the system requirements.
This offering is deployed as a new installation of Guardium Insights – or as an in-place upgrade. Please follow these instructions:
What's new in IBM Guardium Insights Version 3.3.0
- Ease of use
- Improved performance for online reports.
- Enterprise maturity
- Support for direct-to-Guardium Insights communication protocol when integrating with Guardium Data Protection. This change improves and simplifies network requirements.
- Multi-tenant support
- Guardium Insights now supports adding additional tenants after installation. For more information, see Creating and using additional tenants after installing Guardium Insights.
- Technical debt
- Guardium Insights now supports OpenShift® Container Platform Version 4.14.x. To learn more about OpenShift Container Platform support, see here.
- As of Version 3.3, the initial user that is created by Guardium Insights is assigned the Administrator role. If you are upgrading from a previous version of Guardium Insights and you create a new tenant, the role of the default user of that tenant will be granted the Administrator role upon upgrade.
- In previous releases of Guardium Insights,
ibmc-block-goldwas used for Db2 block storage on IBM Cloud® (Classic). This has changed toibmc-file-gold-gid.
Bug fixes in Guardium Insights v3.3.0
| Issue key | Description |
|---|---|
| INS-34225 | After upgrading OpenShift Container Platform to Version 4.12 from 4.10, the Guardium Insights user interface becomes slow to respond and eventually stops responding. |
| INS-26139 | Errors in Guardium Insights were being caused by an outdated version of Ansible. Ansible in Guardium Insights has been updated. |
| INS-23621 | Throughput metrics were missing from the datamart-processor log. |
| INS-22638 | During AWS data ingestion, records were being duplicated. |
| INS-22382 | When creating a connection to AWS, it was possible to enter a Consumer group name that was longer than 128 characters and have the connection created. Now, the 128-character limit is enforced. |
| INS-22293 | Data mart files were not properly ingested when Db2 was brought up after manually scaling down. |
| INS-22288 | The Data mart ingestion page stopped responding when Db2 tables were locked. |
| INS-20299 | When adding an AWS connection, the Port number field was missing navigation arrows. |
| INS-19606 | After creating a policy, you can set it to include result-set rules. Previously, if you did this and then added a result-set rule, the Enter a custom regular expression field had no character limit. |
| INS-17040 | In the Guardium Insights Notifications page, the Performed by column was empty for file downloads and other actions. |
| INS-12909 | Db2 for z/OS
SYSADM administrative user was not available in the predefined Administrator group
(Admin users - default). This user has now been added to the default group -
and the Administrative user login report now includes login activity for this user. |
| INS-11716 | After creating an IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault integration, the configuration indicated that the account was connected, even after the account was locked. Now, the PAM integration configuration status is marked with a connection error when the account is locked. |
Known limitations and workarounds for Guardium Insights v3.3.0
| Issue key | Description |
|---|---|
| INS-45231 | After upgrading from Guardium Insights version
3.2.x, risk events are not generated and the risk-analytics-classification log
includes this error:Workaround: Connect to the MongoDB pod, select the relevant database, and run these commands: After issuing these commands, restart all
|
| INS-39477 | After upgrading from Guardium Insights version 3.2.1
and later, risk events are not generated and the risk-analytics-engine log includes
this
error:Workaround: Connect to the MongoDB pod, select the relevant database, and run these commands: |
| INS-38008 | Upgrading Guardium Insights fails with
non-zero return code error when the length of the
spec.guardiumInsightsGlobal.ingress.hostname value in your custom resource (CR)
file is longer than 58 characters.Workaround: Before upgrading, ensure that the length of
the |
| INS-37829 | An additional cp-serviceability pod is in the
ContainerCreating state. This prevents the Guardium Insightsmustgather tool from working, as
documented.Workaround: Choose one of these options:
|
| INS-37724 | When working with compliance milestones, you can Refine alerts with the
Configure alert recipients action. When you choose this action and refine
alerts, you can elect to send emails for actions. When you click the Send email
to action and then click Invite users, the resulting landing page
includes an Add users button that does not work. Workaround: Go to the user management screen and add the user. Then return to the Refine alerts page to add the user to the list. |
| INS-37360 | After upgrading from Guardium Insights Version
3.2.x, an existing S3 connection that was healthy before upgrading becomes
unhealthy. Workaround: Editing the connection will cause it to be healthy again. |
| INS-37352 | When there are very large amounts of data, the Data mart ingestion page displays this
error:Workaround:
If the Data mart ingestion page displays this error, you can access the data mart ingestion
information by opening the Data mart ingestion status
report. This report includes data marts collected from both collectors and aggregators. To open the reports page, select Reports in
the main menu. Open this menu by clicking the main menu icon ( |
| INS-37220 | After upgrading , the datamart-processor may not be able to write files to
storage. As a result, data ingestion no longer takes place (the files are not ingested, but they are
preserved).Workaround: To re-upload the files that have been preserved - and to resume
ingestion - restart |
| INS-36860 | In Guardium Insights Version 3.3, support for the Universal Connector plugin for Amazon Neptune is temporarily paused. New versions of some of the dependencies required for this plugin could introduce security vulnerabilities and stability issues. Remediation of these dependencies is in progress and full support for Neptune will resume in the future. Customers who rely on the Universal Connector to monitor Amazon Neptune are advised to remain on Guardium Insights Version 3.2.x until Version 3.3.x support is fully available. |
| INS-35876 | There is a known issue for compliance reports when filtering with very large groups
(performance is degraded when groups defined for compliance have greater than 2000
members). Workaround: Keep group members for all compliance groups at 2000 members or fewer until future performance improvements can be made. |
| INS-29331 | In rare cases, there are Db2 errors for services
such as the reports and risk services. These may prevent report execution or risk event generation.
When this occurs, these errors are seen in the logs for the related
service:Workaround: See Db2 errors for reports and risk services. |
Resources
IBM Guardium Insights documentation: http://ibm.com/docs/SSWSZ5_3.3.x/
Guardium Insights v3.3.x system requirements and prerequisites
IBM Security Learning Academy: https://www.securitylearningacademy.com
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