Introduction
The Endian 6.8.0 release introduces a powerful new authentication system that supports OAuth 2.0 providers such as Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) and Auth0 (Okta). By leveraging your organization’s existing identity provider, you can now effortlessly authenticate users to the Endian Switchboard. In addition, there is a faster and more expansive deep-packet application detection engine with over 430 IT and OT applications supported. Lastly, there is all new certificate management engine with support for external providers like Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL along with a simplified user experience and integrated certificate lifecycle automations. This upgrade not only bolsters overall security but also streamlines management processes, making it easier than ever to protect your sensitive data.
EndianOS Switchboard
OAuth 2.0 Authentication
Businesses can effortlessly connect their identity providers—whether it's Microsoft Entra ID or Auth0—to the Switchboard, enabling streamlined and instant user authentication and onboarding. This powerful integration bolsters security by offering a real-time link to identity provider data, ensuring that users are equipped with the right permissions through our innovative onboarding rule system.
LEARN MORE (COMING SOON)
- How to Setup Microsoft Entra ID Authentication on a Switchboard
- How to Setup Okta (Auth0) Authentication on a Switchboard
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EndianOS UTM, Switchboard & 4i (All Products)
New Application Control Engine
In collaboration with the traffic monitoring and analysis experts at NTOP, we've developed an entirely new application detection and analysis engine powered by their advanced deep-packet inspection technology (nDPI). This engine is exceptionally lightweight and efficient, capable of processing traffic at near-line speed without significantly impacting the underlying platform. Moreover, the new application library has 430 applications including popular IT ones and wide array of OT protocols as well (see below). This helps in providing immense value to our customers by enhancing the ability to better detect and enforce application detection rules.
Popular IT / OT Protocols
| IT Protocols | OT Protocols |
| Signal | Modbus |
| DNP3 | |
| TikTok | Siemens S7 |
| Facebook (App, Messenger, VoIP) | OPC-UA |
| Streaming (Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV+, HBO, more) | Profinet |
| VPN (iCloud Relay, Cloudflare, Ultrasurf, NordVPN, more) | BACnet |
LEARN MORE (COMING SOON)
- How to Create an Application Control Rule to Block TikTok (Policy Enforcement)
- How to Create an Application Control Rule to Block VPN (Policy Evasion)
- How to Create an Application Control Rule to Block Streaming Services (Prevent Bandwidth Abuse)
New Certificate Management
An entirely new certificate management system offers a consistent user experience across all services. Moreover, it incorporates numerous additional features, such as seamless integration with ACME providers (Let’s Encrypt and ZeroSSL), support for multiple CA certificates and intermediate certificates, enhanced import and export capabilities, and support for various file formats. All of these functionalities can be conveniently accessed through an entirely new and intuitive user interface and experience.
LEARN MORE (COMING SOON)
- How to Setup and Install a Let's Encrypt Certificate on the Endian Management Interface
- How to Setup and Install a Wildcard Certificate on an Endian Switchboard Portal
Improved Login Security (2FA)
Now you can login to the web management interface of the Endian appliance using two-factor authentication with the support of a one-time password (OTP). This better ensures that only authorized web management users can successfully authenticate to the web management interface of any Endian system. This improves overall platform security and helps to prevent unauthorized or brute-force login attempts.
LEARN MORE (COMING SOON)
- How to Setup Two-Factor Authentication for Web Management Login
New User & Group Management
By modernizing the technology platform, we've drastically improved the performance and scalability of User and Group management. In addition, we added many new features, including a simplified process for user creation and editing, unified search, filtering, multi-select editing, and much more.
Product News & Notes
- Stay tuned in the next few weeks for updates from us on how to utilize the features of this new release (as described in the Coming Soon sections).
- As Endian solutions are constantly evolving towards more performing and more efficient platforms, we periodically announce End of Sale and End of Life cycles milestones, along with the recommended migration path to the latest generation replacement product. You can check your appliance status by clicking here (or copy and paste this link https://help.endian.com/hc/en-us/articles/218147188-End-of-Life-Policy).
As always, if you have any questions or want to make a purchase, please contact sales@endian.com to reach our sales team.
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