Released May 2021
WebTitan Cloud 4.16 focuses on user identification and management, bringing new endpoint agents for Windows and Chromebooks with flexible policies and remote configuration. Azure Active Directory users can now also be identified and filtered using the latest version of DNS Proxy and our new WebTitan Azure AD Enterprise App.
What's new?
WebTitan Cloud 4.16 sees the introduction of the concept of devices and device management to WebTitan, allowing you to add devices that can then be remotely managed and configured. A device is an entity that can be configured to send DNS requests to WebTitan Cloud for filtering per your policies, such as an endpoint agent like WebTitan OTG 2 (described below).
The WebTitan OTG agent has been re-architected as a single-threaded application, meaning that our WebTitan OTG 2 agents are more stable and secure and require less CPU overhead from the user machine. The WebTitan OTG 2 agent family offers several other improvements:
You can remotely manage and configure OTG 2 devices after installation from your WebTitan Cloud, using the new device management UI.
You can view detailed device information on all your devices in WebTitan Cloud and apply global or individual configuration changes.
Reliance on a user's IP address has been removed, with OTG 2 now using an EDNS tag to identify a user and their device.
You can now automatically assign a specific policy to new devices during installation.
OTG 2 uses a customer-specific install key that improves security during installation. The install key can also be regenerated in the WebTitan UI if necessary.
Based on the new WebTitan OTG 2, WebTitan OTG for Chromebooks is the first agent from our OTG 2 family, delivering user and device-level web filtering specifically for Chromebooks. Designed for the education sector, it is a fast, affordable security filtering solution for Chromebooks that supports CIPA compliance. See WebTitan OTG 2 for Chromebooks Guide.
WebTitan Cloud can now filter users in Azure Active Directory (AD) using the new version of DNS Proxy and the WebTitan Azure AD Enterprise App. The WebTitan Azure AD Enterprise App is responsible for synchronizing Azure AD users & groups to DNS Proxy and can support filtering using just an on-prem AD, an Azure AD, or a hybrid AD setup. See WebTitan AzureAD Enterprise App Guide.
You can now delete OTG users in the UI from the Users tab. See Editing and Deleting Users.
You can now include a description when adding a Static IP Location using the Rest API. See apidoc.webtitancloud.com for more information.
What has been improved?
In keeping with a larger global effort to improve technical vocabulary, the terms blacklist and whitelist have been removed from WebTitan Cloud and replaced with block list and allow list.
WebTitan OTG 1 for Mac has been updated to improve VPN handling and compatibility with Catalina and Big Sur. An issue causing the external IP to not always resolve has also been fixed.
What has been fixed?
Category incorrectly taking precedence over included default allow list (resolved).
Long URLs could overflow the container in Block Pages (resolved).
Allow and block domains with uppercase characters did not work in the Rest API (resolved).
Reporting Filter editing issue (resolved).
High Cloud Key max use-values issue (resolved).
Scheduled reports not running when quotes appear in the subject or description (resolved).
Rest API accepting far out-of-range timestamps (resolved).
Pagination issue on Reporting History by blocked action (resolved).
Customer time zones affecting the global WebTitan log (resolved).
Issue exporting allow or block domains if there is a quote in the policy name (resolved).
Out of date inline Help (resolved).
Global allow and block list entries not working in the Rest API (resolved).
An issue with the scheduled resolution of Dynamic DNS locations (resolved).
Issue deleting a non-existent user in the Rest API (resolved).