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Quality Enhancements

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Enhanced User Experience with Email and Summary Notifications

SQL Compliance Manager 6.0 extends the capabilities of the current SQL CM Agent to support remote auditing on SQL servers on EC2. Allowing users to add SQL Servers active on the share network location to write/read data and support DBaaS SQL Server Instances.  The Cloud Agent consists of the same behavior and functionality as the current SQL Agent, but the RDS agent is a separate agent deployed into the cloud with its own configuration auditing settings. 2 improved to determine if an Alert Rule has been configured as 'Email Notification' or 'Email Summary Notification', users no longer are required to edit the alert rule. The rule description has been enhanced to make it convenient to distinguish between the two without the need for alert rule modifications.

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Command Line Interface (CLI) Enhancement

SQL Compliance Manager 6.0 adds support for Amazon RDS to audit servers, databases, Sensitive Data, and Activities while alerting and reporting on them. Users can select Amazon RDS as their Server Type when adding a new server in the Specify SQL Server configuration window. According to the selection, SQL CM asks to Specify Connection Credentials for the authentication, and once registered, users can begin auditing the database activity on that server.

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SQL Compliance Manager 6.0 permits the creation of storage accounts to place its components within AWS. In Amazon RDS, users can audit Microsoft SQL Server databases using the built-in SQL Server auditing mechanism. For additional information on Support for SQL Server Audit, visit the SQL Server Audit User Guide.

Performance Enhancements

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2 upgraded to provide a CLI command line for registering a server, grooming, archiving, and verifying audit data integrity - version 6.2 is now augmented with CLI for enabling and disabling auditing servers.

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Reports

SQL Compliance Manager 6.2 improved and added the number of rows at the end of the reports to ease access to the information contained in each report.

Security Enhancements

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SQLCM-6760
Encryption

SQL Compliance Manager 6.2 enhanced security by deploying a strong Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm to meet the latest high standards of our large enterprise customers. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an algorithm that uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt protected data. Instead of a single round of encryption, data is put through several rounds of substitution, transposition, and mixing to make it harder to compromise.

6.2 Fixed Issues 

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    DDL, DML, and DROP events are correctly shown in the "Audit Events" tab after performing the DDL action on the "Sensitive Column" when using the "via Audit Logs" collection method.
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    SQLCM-6728
    SQLCM-6728
    Audit events for "insert" are accurately being recorded for Sensitive columns with "select and DML activity" enabled.
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    SQLCM-6729
    SQLCM-6729
    Resolved the issue where Trace events were not being correctly captured for "delete from <table>" audit events when sensitive columns with "select and DML activity" were configured.
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    SQLCM-6403
    SQLCM-6403
    Fixed an issue where the number of Logout events captured was significantly more than the number of Login events.
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    SQLCM-6539
    SQLCM-6539
    Resolved the issue where a warning message was displayed in the Event Viewer after execution of the trace file out to the collection Server for processing.
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    SQLCM-6773
    Fixed an issue where the "Delete" DML events were shown twice after executing a single "Delete" query on the "Sensitive Columns" table when "Trace" or "Audit Logs" collection methods were used.
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    SQLCM-6769
    SQLCM-6769
    Resolved the issue where the events table integrity check did not detect changes done on hash columns.
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    SQLCM-6750
    SQLCM-6750
    The “SQL Statement” content is correctly displayed in the “Event Properties” after executing the DDL query if the “via SQL server Audit specification” is used.
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    SQLCM-6749
    SQLCM-6749
    Resolved the issue where the "+" icon was missing for the DDL column-sensitive event in the "Audit Events" tab.
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    SQLCM-6721
    SQLCM-6721
    Addressed an issue where the layout was broken for reports downloaded in PDF and TIF formats.
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    SQLCM-6697
    SQLCM-6697
    Resolved an issue where Events were not captured as expected with Extended Events and SELECT auditing was enabled.
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    SQLCM-6671
    SQLCM-6671
    Fixed the issue where the Bin file was not getting updated for the Privileged User set up through a domain group at the server level.
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    SQLCM-6629
    Resolved an issue where "Unknown Publisher" was displayed in the "User Account Control" when installing SQLCM.
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    Addressed an issue where an error message would come up when trying to import audit settings.

Upon upgrading to SQL CM 6.0 or preparing a new installation, SQL Compliance Manager Event Collection Method Capture Default Setting changes to "SQL Server Audit Specifications". All audit logs for 'DML and Select Activities' are captured and filtered properly both for the existing CM architecture and the cloud support platform. 

6.0 Fixed Issues 

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For more information about new features and fixed issues in version 56.9.x1, see Previous new features and fixed issues.

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