[Advanced Browser Security] New! When an end user downloads a file, the browser extension displays a toast notification. We've added a progress bar to the toast notification. The progress bar shows the specific task that is being performed, and an estimate of the download completion percentage.

[Advanced Browser Security] You can now display your organization's name in all end-user toast notifications. The organization name that you specify will replace the default "Perception Point" in the toast notifications. You specify the organization name in the Settings > General Settings page in the Advanced Browser Security Console.

[Advanced Browser Security] Block pages that prevent access to downloaded files and to websites can include custom messages. You can now add a link that will appear below the custom messages. For example, you could add a link to a page that enables users to open a support ticket to request access to the blocked file.

This new functionality is included in the "Custom Messages" tab inside extension profiles. You specify the text of the link, and the URL that will open when the link is clicked. 

The new Incident Response Summary page gives you greater visibility into the work that our incident response team is constantly doing: protecting your organization; saving you time and money. 

Here are some of the key features you'll find on the new Incident Response Summary page:

1. Incident tracking: The summary page provides real-time updates on the number of incidents reviewed by our incident response team, so you can see the scope of the work being done to keep your organization safe.
2. Breakdown of incident review and time saved: The summary page provides a breakdown of the number of incidents reviewed and the total hours saved by our incident response team, giving you a more detailed understanding of the impact of the IR team.
3. Incident trends: We've included a section that shows the number of incidents that were reviewed over time, so you can track trends and identify areas of concern.
4. Blog posts: We've added a shortcut to our latest blog posts about incident response - so you can stay up to date with the latest industry trends and best practices.

With the Incident Response Summary page, you can have confidence that our incident response team is working tirelessly to protect your organization, and you can see the impact of their work in real-time.

We’ve added the following new detection improvements to the Browser Extension:

• Phishing website detection via ML-based image recognition
• Detection of additional malicious web attack techniques (e.g. XSS, Clickjacking)
• Detection of files delivered via HTML smuggling

You can now display the Perception Point-X-Ray user interface in Japanese. This is in addition to the languages that were previously available: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Korean. 

To change the UI language, click the Language icon on the right of the Perception Point-X-Ray toolbar, and then select the required language. 

We've updated the look of the toast messages that are displayed by the Advanced Browser Security [ABS] Browser Extension. We removed the Perception Point logo, and added icons to improve visual recognition of the message content. In addition, the toast messages are now color coded to make the meaning and significance of each toast immediately apparent to the end-users.

We are happy to announce the release of our new Microsoft API connection method for Office 365 installations.

This new connection method provides you with an additional way to connect your Office 365-based email services to Perception Point’s Advanced Email Security – using the Microsoft Graph API.

The new Microsoft API connection method incorporates a super-simplified connection procedure – that doesn’t require you to perform any configurations in your Microsoft account, and allows you to easily select which domains and users to protect.

The existing Inline connection method is still available. Here's a quick comparison between the two connection methods:

• Inline (Prevention mode): This connection method scans and blocks malicious email pre-delivery. The inline method requires adding a TXT record to the DNS, and then running an automated onboarding script.
• Microsoft API (Detection and response mode): This connection method scans emails in parallel with the delivery of the emails. A TXT record is not required. End users may see malicious emails in their inboxes for a few seconds before the email is deleted.

For implementation details, see the Perception Point Documentation Center.