What's New

For the new features and fixed issues in the latest version of SQL Secure, see SQL Secure New Features and Fixed Issues.

System Requirements

Version History

Version 4.2

• SQL Secure now allows you to take a snapshot of your registered servers at once.
• The Server Roles report now shows members from Windows groups.
• The Database Roles report now displays the creation date of the database.

Version 4.1

• The Configuration Security Checks now allows you to configure your backup compliance more freely with the Backups compliance with RTO and RPO requirements check . Now, you can set up the backup frequency and select the databases to backup.

Version 4.0

• The SQL Secure Data Collector Job Keys allow you to manage snapshot collection jobs. Use this option to throttle the collector jobs so that they do not overload the SQL Server instance.
• SQL Secure supports TLS 1.2 to send email requests to SMTP.

Version 3.4.1

There are no new features for this product version release.

Version 3.4

• SQL Secure adds a DISA-NIST STIG policy and security check templates for SQL Server 2016, with 11 security checks enabled by default.
• An additional policy field filtering option was implemented in the Assessment Comparison report.

Version 3.3.2

• SQL Secure now supports Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2019.
  • Install, upgrade, uninstall SQL Secure using SQL Server 2019 based repository.
  • Monitor SQL Server 2019 based instances where SQL Secure repository uses SQL Server 2019 or previous versions.
  • Monitor SQL Server 2019 and previous versions from environments where SQL Secure repository uses SQL Server 2019.
  • Register SQL Server 2019 on Azure VM and Azure SQL Database, generates all available reports.
  • Register SQL Server 2019 on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for SQL Server, generates all available reports.
• SQL Secure adds policy templates: CIS for SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2019.

Version 3.3.1

There are no new features for this product version release.

Version 3.3

• Adds audit support for Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2
• Installs on Azure VM and Amazon EC2
• Added security checks to support GDPR and provide GDPR policy template
• Updated  IDERA level 1 to 3 policy templates
• Enhanced import and export policy
• Added an option to make bulk changes to email notification settings
• Archive snapshots for decommissioned servers

Version 3.2

• Added security templates
• Updated security templates
• Added configuration checks
• Added access checks
• Added auditing checks
• Added login checks
• Added permissions checks

Version 3.1.200

• Reference decommissioned server instance snapshots

• Supports TLS 1.2

• New product versioning

Version 3.1

• Supports auditing of Azure SQL Database and SQL Server running in Azure virtual machines
• Expands installation options
• Moved to Windows .NET Framework 4.6

Version 3.0

• Added SQL Server file import
• Added tags for easier server management
• Added suspect SQL Server logins report
• Expanded Risk Assessment reporting

Version 2.9

• Improved name matches selection of rule filter properties
• Enhanced reporting
• Supports SQL Server 2016
• Updated guest user enabled access functionality

Version 2.8

• Supports SQL Server 2014
• Supports Always On Availability Groups
• Install repository on a failover cluster
• Updated policy templates to use latest versions of SQL Server and OS
• Updated to a granular process for exporting and importing policies
• Improved process for registering new SQL Server instances
• Supports sequence objects for SQL Server 2012
• Supports users in contained databases for SQL Server 2012 and 2014
• Added security checks