Malwarelytics in November 2021: Management UI and Events API
We brought several neat features to Malwarelytics in the past weeks, and we would like to introduce those briefly. Of course, all our customers can rest assured that we will deliver even more features based on their ideas or our inexhaustible product feature pipeline in the future. Stay tuned!
We are always happy to assist our customers in integrating the Malwarelytics SDK into their applications. But we also see that the whole process could be a lot more instant and smooth.
Application Management
We introduced a new UI to allow application management in this release. Any user with the organization admin role can now create or edit applications.
Organization admins can access the feature to create a new application from the Applications section of the navigation menu or the context menu on the Administration/All Applications page.
To modify an application, click on the application list on Administration/All Applications page.
The dialog to create/modify an application is then displayed:
User Management
The other important management UI we are just introducing is all about users. Organization admins can create users or modify existing users.
Organization admins can reach the management page from Administration/User Management navigation menu. There are two separated tabs—one for your organization users, where the context menu offers the creation of a new user. By clicking on any of the users, the modify dialog will open.
The other tab on the Administration/User Management page allows you to invite a user from another organization (e.g., your software delivery company) and grant access rights to selected applications.
Introducing Malwarelytics API
The Malwarelytics console is an excellent tool for us humans. If you are not a human but, for example, a server application that needs some information, you ideally need an application programming interface (API).
Malwarelytics API can help connect the Malwarelytics data to your systems, such as anti-fraud solution or SIEM. The Event Queue API offers endpoints to access an application stream to track each malware infection or healing.
We have decided to build the API using the“call us when you want to know” approach. This approach avoids any infrastructure obstacles to access your internally hosted systems from our cloud applications.
Two Factor Authentication (2FA)
The protection of any user account can now be increased by activating 2FA, using apps such as Google Authenticator. We recommend that all users use 2FA on their accounts. The activation is swift, and entering a 6-digit number during your login is just a low tax for a huge security improvement.
The 2FA activation can be found on the My Profile page.
Is This All?
From the list of visible enhancements, yes. We have also continuously improved the overall performance and tuned our internal features and tools. And finally, all the bugs we have discovered or were reported are not present anymore.
