Flow Network Security Next-Gen 7.6 makes it easier to build, manage, and scale network security policies. This release simplifies policy creation, improves Kubernetes support, expands scalability, and adds new insights into how your security rules are being used.
Review the detailed release notes before deploying any product updates.
New
- Create policies with greater flexibility. Build security rules independently with a new rule-centric policy model for more precise traffic control.
- Secure workloads using domain names. Define policies with fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) instead of manually managing changing IP addresses.
- Organize security by project. Manage policies, groups, and security resources within project boundaries for stronger tenant isolation and simpler administration.
- Monitor policy usage with built-in analytics. Use new Flows and Rules dashboards to understand how security policies are performing across your environment.
Improvements
- Simplify Kubernetes onboarding. Reduce setup steps and automate cluster registration to get protected faster.
- Automatically detect Kubernetes networking. Discover service IPs, ports, load balancers, and egress gateways without manual policy updates.
- Increase service resilience. Improve availability with active-active service insertion and stronger disaster recovery support.
- Scale larger environments. Support significantly more security rules and address groups for growing deployments.
- Improve accessibility. Enhance keyboard navigation and assistive technology support, including better focus controls and inactivity warnings.
- Install automatically with AOS 7.6 and Prism Central pc.7.6. Deploy or upgrade with Flow Network Security Next-Gen included as part of the bundled software package.
Fixes
- Improve failover reliability. Resolve an issue affecting planned failovers for protected virtual machines.
- Fix Flow enablement on dual-stack deployments. Restore successful enablement through both the UI and API.
- Strengthen role-based access controls. Prevent users from viewing security policies outside their assigned scope.
- Reduce unnecessary memory growth. Fix an issue that increased Prism Central memory usage after recovery operations.