Release Notes (2023-10)

October release notes detailing the evolution of the Stairwell platform

October 30, 2023

Checkpoint Backscans

Team: Forwarder

Stairwell mac forwarders can now checkpoint backscans and resume scan from where it left off instead of having to restart the entire scan. This is made available in 1.4.0 versions.

October 27, 2023

Investigations

Team: Frontend

Stairwell now provides an investigations section to save and collaborate on investigations together.

October 25, 2023

Asset Limit

Team: Frontend

The asset screen supports pagination over 100 objects when sorting on name or creationtime. More to be added in the future.

October 24, 2023

Policy Groups

Team: Backend

Asset groups to apply custom policies is now available on the backend. Frontend work to be added.

October 23, 2023

Foundations to Spanner

Team: Backend

Moved environment calls and functions to spanner for improved speed and scalability for environment interactions like get, create, set, and more.

MalEval Unloading Limit

Team: General

MalEval will only unpack a max amount of child objects and was set to ignore the rest. There is now added UI logic to further unpack these once selected.

October 19, 2023

Auto-detonate Threat Report Hashes

Team: Backend

Auto detonation of objects that match threat reports.

October 09, 2023

Improved Load Balancing

Team: Backend

Improved load balancing algorithm to ensure more intelligent and efficient balancing to reduce latency.

Command Click Improvement

Team: Frontend

Command clicking hashes will function similar to normal clicks and will not close virtual preview panes.

October 07, 2023

Collecting Wait Duration

Team: Backend

There is an optional flag to set the max time to collect objects before processing. This will allow for improved on-demand speed.

October 06, 2023

Move Rule Match Counts

Team: Backend

Instead of getting rule match counts from getyararules, it's now available in listruleobjectmatchcount.