Release Notes November 2024

Here's a summary of the changes coming on November 6th.

If you only read one thing: User Access Reviews - Change/Look-Back Reports!

New Features

UAR Look-Back Reports (Change Tracking)

We are introducing a new reporting/inspection option for User Access Reviews Look-Back reporting.

Since User Access Reviews represent access at a "point in time", it’s common for the current state of access to change between when the review was generated and “now”.  When that happens, it’s often a challenge to ensure the review contains everything it’s supposed to contain.  Someone coming along later looking for a specific piece of access (that was removed) or seeing a piece of access (that was created after the review was started) might think things aren’t complete and accurate.

With Look-Back inspection, Clarity will show all access changes (creation / deletion / remediation) after the review was kicked off (that would have been included in the view if it was run “now”) or access that has since been removed and won’t be found except in the review itself.  

This data should make it easy to determine if there’s enough change that an incremental review is justified, or if access changes to a system warrant re-creating the review.

This feature is continued investment in making it easy to prove Clarity is complete and accurate for user access review compliance controls.

Ongoing Improvements

User Experience Performance Boosts!

We’ve continued to optimize queries that impact users within the tool.  The Dashboard, reports, and admin detail pages are all getting a boost with this release.  We always love when things are faster, and hopefully y’all notice it.