Introducing The New Mac Cloud Agent |BEST|

In my previous blog post, I wrote about the ways our new Windows Cloud Agent addresses the identity and access management challenges that come with the shift to the cloud-based infrastructure and distributed workforce. This week, I am excited to introduce you to the new Idaptive Mac Cloud Agent extends the benefits of cloud-centric identity management to organizations with large deployments of macOS devices. The new Idaptive Mac Cloud Agent makes it easy for you to deploy Mac devices to remote employees, ensure that devices have the right set of security policies, and are protected with Multi-Factor Authentication.

The Idaptive Mac Cloud Agent connects all of your Mac endpoints to the Idaptive platform so that your local and remote users can seamlessly sign in to their devices with their Active Directory or Idaptive Cloud Directory credentials. Previously, the process of providing Mac devices to remote workers was challenging. The devices had to be set up prior to being shipped and, once received, remote users had to establish a direct connection to the corporate network via VPN to complete the enrollment process. With the new Mac Cloud Agent, the enrollment process is drastically simplified. Once the agent is deployed on the device, users can immediately log in with their existing credentials and complete the enrollment process without being connected to a VPN or corporate network.

Offline OTP: With offline one-time-passcodes (OTP), you can sign in to your devices protected by Multi-factor Authentication even when you are not connected to the internet. Offline OTP setup is easily accessible directly in the agent drop-down menu and supports all standard OTP authenticator applications.

In this blog post, I introduced the new Mac Cloud Agent and explained its key features, benefits, and use cases. With Mac Cloud Agent, you can centrally enroll and manage mac endpoints, secure endpoints with Multi-Factor Authentication, and enforce device-level policies. To start using Mac Cloud Agent, simply log in to your Idaptive tenant and download the agent on to your Mac device.

The newly released platform aims to solve some of these challenges with cloud connected, centrally managed, always up-to-date, lightweight agents that are constantly beaming up security and compliance data points to the platform. This innovative approach greatly simplifies deployment and management of these agents. Legacy enterprise agent solutions require deployment of a large amount of infrastructure to manage these agents. The Qualys Cloud Agent Platform with its simplified deployment significantly reduces the complexity and cost of management of agents when compared to these legacy agent solutions.

The Cloud Agent Platform stores a snapshot, which is security & compliance metadata about the target system collected by the Cloud Agent. This starts off with an initial background upload of the baseline snapshot which is a few Mbytes and is beamed up to the platform. After that only incremental deltas are uploaded in small chunks that are only a few kilobytes in size. Since all of the heavy lifting is done in the cloud, the agent needs minimal footprint and processing on the target systems. All target systems can be scanned (via their snapshots) in the cloud as soon as new vulnerability signatures are released. This means threats can be detected without having to wait for the target system to be online. This creates huge improvements in efficiency and speed over current scanning architectures.

The ability to embed the agent in the master images used to create virtual instances greatly simplifies security and compliance in dynamic elastic environments. When new instances are created it can be complicated to automate the scaling of scanners to address the demand. The agent simplifies checking the posture of these instances since the agent activates itself as soon as the instance is booted, registers itself with the Qualys Cloud Agent Platform and uploads all its information into the platform for analysis.

As an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure administrator you can deploy management agents to collect data from services and sources that you want to monitor. Management Agent service manages the lifecycle of the management agent and the plug-ins for the services.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) components communicate with each other using https protocol.

A Management Agent (agent) allows a service plug-in to collect data from the host where you install the Management Agent. It can connect to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure directly using the Management Agent cloud service. The Management Agent is installed on a host. It monitors and collects data from the sources that reside on hosts or virtual hosts.

The Management Agent Cloud Service (MACS), also known as Management Agent service, is a cloud service from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It manages the Management Agents and their lifecycle. Management Agents allow Oracle Cloud services to interact and collect data from entities that are managed by them.

An Agent Install Key is a token required by the Management Agent installation. It authorizes the Management Agent to communicate with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You can use an agent install key for multiple Management Agents installations. When you install a Management Agent, you must provide the agent install key value. You can get the value of the agent install key from the Management Agent service user interface.

With tens of millions of agents deployed worldwide, Qualys Cloud Agents are built for scale. A true, single-agent architecture keeps the Qualys Cloud Agent smaller and more powerful than other multi-agent solutions. Rolling out additional IT, security, and compliance capabilities across global hybrid-IT environments can be achieved seamlessly without the burden of adding and managing additional single-purpose agents. Qualys Cloud Agents work with Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, Patch Management, EDR, Policy Compliance, File Integrity Monitoring, and other Qualys apps.

Together, Qualys Cloud Agent and Qualys Gateway Service provide an easily optimized, bandwidth-efficient platform. Qualys QGS eliminates the cost and complexity of deploying, managing, maintaining, and securing third-party proxies and web gateways for cloud agent installations at scale. It also creates a local cache for downloaded content from Qualys Cloud Agents such as manifests, updates, etc., and stores patches when used with Qualys Patch Management.

Cloud agents improve overall policy compliance efforts by providing the ability to perform configuration checks on endpoint systems, which is extremely difficult to do using traditional network scanning solutions.Qualys Cloud Agents are lightweight

The Cloud Agent architecture greatly simplifies asset discovery, tracking, and compliance monitoring in containers and highly dynamic cloud environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

or issue this command to register the client machine using registration token:"C:\Program Files\BackupClient\RegisterAgentTool\register_agent.exe" -a --token -o register -t cloud

Type in the following command to register the agent using account and password:/usr/lib/Acronis/RegisterAgentTool/RegisterAgent -o register -t cloud -a -u -p

Execute the following command to register the client machine using account and password:sudo "/Library/Application Support/BackupClient/Acronis/RegisterAgentTool/RegisterAgent" -o register -t cloud -a -u -p

or execute the following command to register the client machine using registration token:sudo "/Library/Application Support/BackupClient/Acronis/RegisterAgentTool/RegisterAgent" -o register -t cloud -a --token

This release adds support for ConnectWise Control version 22.1. It also fixes an issue with agent deployment asking for account credentials of the domain controller service when the agent is deployed to a machine within the domain.

The agent's support for .NET Core takes advantage of the compatibility, speed, expanded API features, and cross-platform capabilities of Microsoft's .NET Core. The agent does not support Microsoft .NET Core versions earlier than 2.0.

The .NET agent is open source software. That means you can browse its source code.css-1p7qkn8{margin-left:0.25rem;position:relative;top:-1px;}.css-1vugbg2{fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-width:2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;margin-left:0.25rem;position:relative;top:-1px;}.css-1yhl729{width:1em;height:1em;fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-width:2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;margin-left:0.25rem;position:relative;top:-1px;} and send improvements, or create your own fork and build it. For more information, see the README.

To allow developers to make API requests on the web as part of this latest release, we had to find a way to get around these browser limitations. This work resulted in us developing the Postman agent.

The Postman agent employs a TCP connection using WebSockets to publish and subscribe to a JSON payload that uses our internal collection execution protocol. The above diagram breaks down how the Postman agent works with the agent service to securely route API requests to be executed locally, then also makes sure the response gets routed back to the web application. (Making API calls using Postman in the browser is currently in beta, and so is the Postman agent.)

Download the Postman agent for macOS here. Download the Postman agent for Linux here.Download the Postman agent for Windows 64-bit here.Download the Postman agent for Windows 32-bit here.Access the new web version of Postman here.Give us feedback here. 2b1af7f3a8

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Introducing The New Mac Cloud Agent |BEST|