What's New in Quantum Spark R81.10.00

Enhancement and New Features

• This release supports Locally Managed (Local + Quantum Spark Portal) and Centrally Managed configurations

• Improve and Simplify SSL inspection operation

  • Some network devices do not support installation of an SSL certificate, therefore making SSL inspection not possible.

  • When you use the gateway capability to automatically sense and identify network elements, you can now select on which network element SSL inspection is enabled.

  • Appliance administrators have full control on which network elements SSL inspection will operate:

    • Desktops and laptop are automatically selected, and other network devices can be easily added.

    • You can also select bypassing inspection on macOS devices.

• Smart Accel (Early Availability level)

  • Improves gateway performance by accelerating low risk traffic sources:

    • Video streaming (Netflix, YouTube, Spotify).

    • Well known corporate services (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Check Point Services).

    • Social Media services (Facebook, Tiktok).

    • Web Conferences (Skype, WebEx, Zoom).

• Password Complexity

  • Set password complexity to high to harden the Gateway Admin Password.

  • Password length, number of different characters, Password history, Password Expiration.

• Updatable objects and FQDN in the Rule Base

  • Use fully qualified domain name (FQDN) object in the Access Policy.

• VoIP improvements

  • Enable bidirectional traffic with the SIP provider service when SIP traffic inspection is disabled.

• VPN Monitoring

  • New information was added to the VPN tunnels monitoring page.

• Support Radius 2.0 server

• FTP AV - Inspect FTP protocol by Anti-Virus Software Blade

• ZScaler (VPN 3rd party) support

• Mirror port

  • Allows duplicating all the traffic that goes through one or more LAN ports, into one of the other LAN ports.

• TCPDump in WebUI

  • Additional capabilities for TCPdump tool. Includes additional filters, custom filter, and RT output.