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Revision History

Date

Description

7 January 2026

Updated Searching the SmartConsole Rule Bases

15 December 2025

Updated Access Control Policy Insights

14 December 2025

9 December 2025

Updated migrate_server

3 December 2025

Updated Account Units

23 November 2025

Updated External Network Feeds

12 November 2025

Updated Access Control Policy Insights

12 November 2025

Updated Access Control Policy Insights

2 November 2025

Updated Access Control Policy Insights

29 October 2025

Updated:

28 October 2025

Updated Updating the Updatable Objects through the Management Server

9 October 2025

Updated:

1 October 2025

Updated Session Flow for Administrators

28 September 2025

Updated Working with Automatic NAT Rules

16 September 2025

Updated Secure Internal Communication (SIC)

3 September 2025

Updated Creating Application Control and URL Filtering Rules

4 August 2025

Updated:

25 June 2025

Updated Working with Manual NAT Rules

28 May 2025

Updated Connecting On-Premises Management Servers and Security Gateways to the Infinity Portal

7 May 2025

Updated External Network Feeds

27 April 2025

Updated HTTPS Inspection

6 April 2025

Added Blocking TLS Connections

Updated: The Columns of the Access Control Rule Base

23 March 2025

Added Access Control Policy Insights

Update Creating an Administrator Account with SAML Authentication Login

14 March 2025

Updated the chapter UserCheck in the Access Control Policy

25 February 2025

Added SmartConsole Packages

Updated Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades -

in the section "Limitations" added Security Group in Maestro

06 February 2025

Updated:

05 January 2025

Updated:

01 January 2025

Updated Security Zones

29 December 2024

Updated:

30 October 2024

Updated Network Security for IoT Devices

15 September 2024

Updated Network Groups

22 August 2024

Updated Creating an Administrator Account with SAML Authentication Login

13 June 2024

Updated SmartConsole Window

10 June 2024

Updated Updatable Objects

27 May 2024

Updated Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades

23 May 2024

Updated Security Management behind NAT

01 May 2024

Updated Creating an Access Control Policy

15 April 2024

Updated External Network Feeds

13 March 2024

Updated Managing Administrator Accounts

12 March 2024

Updated External Network Feeds

31 January 2024

Updated Planning Security Management

15 January 2024

Updated Configuring the NAT Policy

16 November 2023

Updated:

31 October 2023

Added Getting Started

Updated HTTPS Inspection

06 September 2023

Added the chapter Compliance

05 September 2023

Updated The Columns of the Access Control Rule Base

22 August 2023

Updated Working with Policy Packages

10 August 2023

Updated Account Units

08 August 2023

Updated Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades

22 June 2023

Added Implied Rules

12 June 2023

Updated UserCheck in the Access Control Policy

21 May 2023

Updated:

23 April 2023

Updated Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades - Limitations

03 April 2023

Updated Location of 'user.def' Files on the Management Server

02 April 2023

Updated Creating Application Control and URL Filtering Rules

13 March 2023

Updated Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades

09 March 2023

Updated Managing Administrator and User Accounts

19 February 2023

Updated Configuring Implied Rules or Kernel Tables for Security Gateways

31 January 2023

Updated Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades

11 January 2023

Textual Corrections

19 December 2022

Updated Configuring a Secondary Security Management Server in SmartConsole

04 December 2022

Updated Configuring Implied Rules or Kernel Tables for Security Gateways -

added paths for R81.10.X versions on Quantum Spark appliances

20 November 2022

First release of this document