September 2023
Flexera One introduced the following new features and enhancements this month.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Flexera One introduced the following new features and enhancements in September 2023.
Additional properties in recommendation table
This enhancement is available with Cloud Cost Optimization.
Understanding your spend recommendations is paramount to optimizing your cloud spend and usage. To make rate and usage recommendations more actionable, the following additional recommendation properties are added to the Cloud Cost Optimization recommendation table:
- Resource Name
- Term
- Platform
- Payment Option
- Scope
- License Model
- Deployment Option
- Avg Utilization
- Lookback Period
- Recommended Resource Type
- Threshold
- CPU Utilization (Avg)
- CPU Utilization (p95)
- CPU Utilization (Max)
- Memory Utilization (Avg)
- Memory Utilization (p95)
- Memory Utilization (Max)
- Size
- State
- IOPS Utilization (Avg)
You can now easily filter, sort, and export the additional recommendation properties. This enhancement enables you to understand and take action on the recommendations to optimize your cloud cost and usage.
For more information about creating a recommendation, see Create a Recommendation From a Policy Template.
Cloud Cost Optimization Azure Enterprise Agreement (legacy) Bill Connect migration
This enhancement is available with Cloud Cost Optimization.
Microsoft is deprecating the legacy Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) APIs on May 1, 2024. Using these APIs, the Azure EA cost and usage details are imported into Cloud Cost Optimization. Your account manager will work with you to migrate to the new Azure Cost Management APIs to maintain your Azure cost reporting in Cloud Cost Optimization and ensure a seamless transition.
As Microsoft has introduced the new Azure Cost Management APIs and is deprecating the Azure EA APIs, you must migrate to the new Azure Cost Management APIs to maintain your Azure cost reporting in Cloud Cost Optimization. For more information, see Microsoft Azure Enterprise Agreement (Legacy).
This enhancement enables you to see costs and usage and also shows parity with the Azure Cost Management Dashboard.
You can now create an Azure Bill Connect, using one of the following options:
- Azure Cost Management APIs—Use this option, if your annual cloud spend is no more than $30 million USD.
- Exports—Use this option, if your annual cloud spending is more than $30 million USD.
FinOps Bill Connect API
This feature is available with the Flexera One API.
A new FinOps Bill Connect API is introduced to ingest the cloud spend into Cloud Cost Optimization. This new API replaces the legacy Bill Connect API.
The legacy Bill Connect API is no longer being updated so you must migrate to the new FinOps Bill Connect API.
With the introduction of the FinOps Bill Connect API, consider the following changes:
- The API host name is changed to the following based on the server location of your account:
- api.flexera.com
- api.flexera.eu
- api.flexera.au
- The API resource path is changed to /finops-onboarding.
- The session name is changed to flexera-finops.
- The events such as create, read, update, and delete are recorded in the Flexera Events API for auditing of changes to the bill connections.
- The supported cloud vendors are AWS, Google, and Azure Enterprise Agreement (Legacy). Common Bill Ingestion (CBI) is also supported.
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This feature will be implemented for Azure MCA and Azure Modern Commerce Agreement CSP in future releases.
New capabilities and enhancements in Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards and billing centers
These features and enhancements are available with Cloud Cost Optimization.
Flexera One has released significant enhancements to Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards and billing centers to improve the usability and functionality for viewing and analyzing cloud spend.
New capabilities
The Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards and billing centers contain the following new capabilities:
- Added the Rate Reduction Savings dashboard to show savings from rate reduction optimization. To see the different values with the spend, you can use the following new metrics: List Price, Savings, and Savings Percent. These metrics show details on the savings and savings percentage for commitment purchases such as Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
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The new metrics are only available for AWS. This feature will be implemented for other vendors in future releases.
- Added the ability for the Billing Center users to see their potential savings from recommendations in the Billing Center.
- Added the ability for the dashboard designers to create and maintain a single dashboard at the Organization level that is also available at the Billing Center level. This feature enables the designers to create one dashboard that can be viewed and maintained at the organization level.
As part of these changes, the Billing Center Tabular View has moved from the root Billing Centers page (Cloud > Cost Optimization > Billing Centers) to the main Cloud menu as a separate submenu item Tabular View (Cloud > Cost Optimization > Tabular View). The Tabular View remains on both the parent and child billing centers. For more information, see Tabular View in the Flexera One Help.
Enhancements to existing functionality
The Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards have the following enhancements:
- Improved user interface to align with rest of Flexera One.
- Renamed dashboard reports to widgets.
- Improved dashboard layout editor —You can now place the dashboard widgets anywhere within the dashboard to visualize and analyze your cloud spend.
- Added the View Anomalies link —You can now identify significant changes in your cloud spend and take necessary actions to keep your costs under control from the Dashboard Table View.
- Added the copy dashboard link —You can now share a direct link to your dashboard with other users by clicking the copy dashboard link. The dashboard link is copied to your clipboard and you can now paste it into an email, a text message, or anywhere else where you would like to paste the link.
- Improved usability of the dashboard filter widget —You can now scale down the data to your exact specifications.
As part of these changes, the option to view the AWS Blended costs has been removed from the dashboards and the Tabular View.
For more information, see the following Flexera One Help topics:
New cost dimensions for cloud cost reporting
This enhancement is available with Cloud Cost Optimization.
With this release, Flexera One has added new Cloud Cost Optimization dimensions to help you better understand your cloud spend. The following dimensions are now available in Dashboards, Tabular View, and Rule-Based Dimensions:
| Cloud cost optimization dimension | Cloud provider | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Availability Zone | AWS | us-east-1d |
| Billing Account ID | 00CED7-4C399A-CF2753 | |
| Database Edition | AWS | 5.6.7 |
| Database Engine | AWS | Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL |
| Deployment Option | AWS | Multi-AZ, Single-AZ |
| Instance Type Family | AWS | M5 |
| License Model | AWS | Bring your own license, License included |
| Operating System | AWS, Azure EA | Linux or Windows Note: Not currently supported with Azure Cost Management Data. |
| Meter Category | Azure EA | Database, Storage, Virtual Machine, and so on |
If your organization participated in the pre-release of these dimensions, these dimensions are now deprecated. To help you identify the deprecated dimensions, the suffix DEPRECATED is added in the dimension name. You must replace the deprecated dimensions with the new dimensions in custom Dashboards, Tabular View, and Rule-Based Dimensions before November 1, 2023.
For more information about cost dimensions, see the following Flexera One Help topics:
- Group by Filter in Tabular View
- Using Rule-Based Dimensions to Analyze Cost
- Accessing the Cloud Dashboard
Rule-Based Dimensions now available in Flexera One user interface (Beta Release)
This beta feature is available with Cloud Cost Optimization and is not available to all customers yet. If you would like the Rule-Based Dimensions beta feature enabled in the user interface, contact Flexera Support. For more information, see Contacting Flexera Support.
Previously, you could work with rule-based dimensions using an API. Now, with this beta feature, you can also work with rule-based dimensions using the Flexera One user interface to create user-defined dimensions to look at your costs from new, meaningful perspectives. Use these rule-based dimensions to view your organization’s cost data categorized in groups that fit your particular business needs.
With rule-based dimensions, you can automatically group costs to a business unit, department, product, project, or any other dimension, and you can combine rules to meaningful categories for cost reporting and analysis.
For more information about managing rule-based dimensions, see Using Rule-Based Dimensions to Analyze Cost.
AWS Reserved Instance and Savings Plan reallocation
This feature is available with Cloud Cost Optimization.
Starting September 13, 2023, all new AWS Bill Connects allow Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plan (SP) costs to be reallocated to areas where the discounts have been applied. Bill Connects made prior to September 13, 2023, may have been manually updated to support this feature or the reallocation may not have been enabled. If you have an AWS Bill Connect created prior to September 13, 2023, and want the reallocation enabled, contact Flexera Support.
For more information, see the Reserved Instance and Savings Plan Reallocation topic in the Flexera One Help.
Flexera One ServiceNow app
Flexera released an updated version of the Flexera One app in the ServiceNow Store in September 2023.
Flexera One app version 1.1 available now on the ServiceNow Store
The Flexera One app for ServiceNow supports IT Visibility.
Flexera helps you improve the value you derive from your ServiceNow investment-from aggregation, normalization, and enrichment of hardware, software, SaaS, and cloud IT asset inventory data to IT service delivery. With Technopedia®, the most trusted source of IT product information in the world, Flexera enhances IT service management (ITSM), Configuration Management Systems, and Software Asset Management with a reliable foundation and accurate data.
The current version of the Flexera One ServiceNow app includes the following new capabilities.
Business service mapping
This version supports Flexera's Automated Business Service Mapping from Cloud Migration and Modernization (formerly RISC Networks) data and can create application services as well as a full mapping of your company's dependencies and relationships—including application services and infrastructure.
Delta data loads
Support for both "snapshot" and "delta" data loads to keep your environment more up to date than ever.
Scheduled imports and exports from IT Visibility
- Added an interface to trigger ad-hoc snapshots and delta data loads from ServiceNow using native ServiceNow schedules.
- Added an interface to trigger exports of data from ServiceNow to IT Visibility using native ServiceNow schedules.
- Added support for export filters so you can further control what data is exported out of your environment. You can define your own filters for exported data by creating and applying table "queries" to the new UI page.
Enhanced logging
Now capturing detailed log records on the ServiceNow side to provide you fuller insight into the progress of the data during and after it is loaded.
IntegrationHUB support and out-of-the-box ServiceNow focused
- Uses Robust Transform Maps and IRE and leverages out-of-the-box ServiceNow functionality to integrate more seamlessly into your ServiceNow environment than ever.
- Can plug into any multi-source CMDB environment with or without Service-Graph and behave the same way you'd expect it to by adhering to ServiceNow best practice.
The Flexera One app supports ServiceNow releases San Diego, Tokyo, and Utah.
See the Flexera One ServiceNow App Help Library for installation, configuration, and troubleshooting information as well as answers to frequently asked questions and an updated data model.
A migration path exists for Data Platform and ServiceNow users who want to take advantage of the Flexera One app. The migration process is explained in the knowledge base article, Migrating from Data Platform to IT Visibility with the Flexera Integration ServiceNow App.
IT Asset Management
IT Asset Management released the following new feature and enhancements in September 2023.
New Active Directory reporting object
This feature is available with IT Asset Management.
Custom reports can now include a new AD Group object. The AD Group object is extremely useful, as it allows you to report on users and their corresponding AD Groups, letting you see the applications that users are permitted to access by way of AD Groups.
An Active Directory group is a group of users that have been given access to certain resources. Administrators can give access and permissions to a group rather than assigning rights individually to each member of the group. Details of AD groups are imported by means of the out of the box Active Directory import (generally triggered once a day from the Beacon).
When creating the report in the Report Builder, reports can start from the AD Group object and link to the User object, similarly, reports starting from the User object can be linked to the AD Group object. As the number of AD groups is typically high, it's recommended to apply a filter when creating the report. For example, the combination of AD groups and users can quickly surpass one million.
Creating a report with an AD Group object and applying the intelligent license restriction, allows you to influence the scope of license coverage in a more automated way. For example, you can create a Microsoft CAL license report to count all users from a specific AD Group, meaning the license can consume based on user application assignments, rather than recognizing applications on devices.
For more information on how to create a custom report, see Creating a Custom Report.
Support for BMC Helix Discovery
This enhancement is available with IT Asset Management.
IT Asset Management now supports the latest SaaS-based product offering from BMC - BMC Helix Discovery.
BMC Helix Discovery is a cloud-native discovery and dependency modeling system that provides instant visibility into hardware and software.
The BMC Helix Discovery adapter works in complete parity with BMC Helix Discovery and older On-Prem technology offered by BMC. No additional setup or configuration is required for BMC Helix Discovery cloud integration.
For more information, see BMC Helix Discovery Adapter in the IT Asset Management Inventory Adapters and Connectors Reference.
Changes to compatibility with other products
This enhancement is available with IT Asset Management.
The following product versions have been added to the compatibility list of IT Asset Management with other products:
- CyberArk 13.0
- IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or HCL BigFix Inventory on Microsoft SQL Server 9.2.32
For the full lists, see Compatibility with Other Products in System Requirements and Compatibility.
Additional currencies supported
This enhancement is available with IT Asset Management.
The list of currencies supported by IT Asset Management has been expanded to coincide with the currencies supported by SaaS Manager.
Currencies can be selected from the Currency drop-down list located in the Currency Settings tab of System Defaults.
The following table contains a full list of all currencies supported by IT Asset Management.
A selection of legacy currencies are available should you need to review any historic purchases.
| Currency code | Currency name |
|---|---|
| ADP | Andorran Peseta |
| AED | United Arab Emirates Dirham |
| AFA | Afghanistan Afghani |
| ALL | Albanian Lek |
| AMD | Armenian Dram |
| ANG | Netherlands Antillian Guilder |
| AOK | Angolan Kwanza |
| ARS | Argentine Peso |
| AUD | Australian Dollar |
| AWG | Aruban Florin |
| BBD | Barbados Dollar |
| BDT | Bangladeshi Taka |
| BGN | Bulgarian Lev |
| BHD | Bahraini Dinar |
| BIF | Burundi Franc |
| BMD | Bermudian Dollar |
| BND | Brunei Dollar |
| BOB | Bolivian Boliviano |
| BRL | Brazilian Real |
| BSD | Bahamian Dollar |
| BTN | Bhutan Ngultrum |
| BUK | Burma Kyat |
| BWP | Botswanian Pula |
| BZD | Belize Dollar |
| CAD | Canadian Dollar |
| CHF | Swiss Franc |
| CLF | Chilean Unidades de Fomento |
| CLP | Chilean Peso |
| CNY | Yuan (Chinese) Renminbi |
| COP | Colombian Peso |
| CRC | Costa Rican Colon |
| CUP | Cuban Peso |
| CVE | Cape Verde Escudo |
| CYP | Cyprus Pound |
| CZK | Czech Republic Koruna |
| DKK | Danish Krone |
| DOP | Dominican Peso |
| DZD | Algerian Dinar |
| ECS | Ecuador Sucre |
| EEK | Estonian Kroon (EEK) |
| EGP | Egyptian Pound |
| ETB | Ethiopian Birr |
| EUR | Euro |
| FJD | Fiji Dollar |
| FKP | Falkland Islands Pound |
| GBP | British Pound |
| GHC | Ghanaian Cedi |
| GIP | Gibraltar Pound |
| GMD | Gambian Dalasi |
| GNF | Guinea Franc |
| GTQ | Guatemalan Quetzal |
| GWP | Franc |
| GYD | Guyanan Dollar |
| HKD | Hong Kong Dollar |
| HNL | Honduran Lempira |
| HTG | Haitian Gourde |
| HUF | Hungarian Forint |
| IDR | Indonesian Rupiah |
| IEP | Irish Punt |
| ILS | Israeli Shekel |
| INR | Indian Rupee |
| IQD | Iraqi Dinar |
| IRR | Iranian Rial |
| ISK | Icelandic Krona |
| JMD | Jamaican Dollar |
| JOD | Jordanian Dinar |
| JPY | Japanese |
| KES | Kenyan Schilling |
| KHR | Kampuchean (Cambodian) Riel |
| KMF | Comoros Franc |
| KPW | North Korean Won |
| KRW | (South) Korean Won |
| KWD | Kuwaiti Dinar |
| KYD | Cayman Islands Dollar |
| LAK | Lao Kip |
| LBP | Lebanese Pound |
| LKR | Sri Lanka Rupee |
| LRD | Liberian Dollar |
| LSL | Lesotho Loti |
| LYD | Libyan Dinar |
| MAD | Moroccan Dirham |
| MGF | Malagasy Franc |
| MNT | Mongolian Tugrik |
| MOP | Macau Pataca |
| MRO | Mauritanian Ouguiya |
| MTL | Maltese Lira |
| MUR | Mauritius Rupee |
| MVR | Maldive Rufiyaa |
| MWK | Malawi Kwacha |
| MXN | Mexican Peso |
| MXP | Old Mexican Peso |
| MYR | Malaysian Ringgit |
| MZM | Mozambique Metical |
| NAD | Namibian Dollar |
| NGN | Nigerian Naira |
| NIO | Nicaraguan Cordoba |
| NOK | Norwegian Kroner |
| NPR | Nepalese Rupee |
| NZD | New Zealand Dollar |
| OMR | Omani Rial |
| PAB | Panamanian Balboa |
| PEN | Peruvian Nuevo Sol |
| PGK | Papua New Guinea Kina |
| PHP | Philippine Peso |
| PKR | Pakistan Rupee |
| PLN | Polish Zloty |
| PYG | Paraguay Guarani |
| QAR | Qatari Rial |
| RON | Romanian Leu |
| RSD | Serbian Dinar |
| RUB | Russian Ruble |
| RWF | Rwanda Franc |
| SAR | Saudi Arabian Riyal |
| SBD | Solomon Islands Dollar |
| SCR | Seychelles Rupee |
| SDP | Sudanese Pound |
| SEK | Swedish Krona |
| SGD | Singapore Dollar |
| SHP | St. Helena Pound |
| SKK | Slovak Koruna |
| SLL | Sierra Leone Leone |
| SOS | Somali Schilling |
| SRG | Surinamese Dollar |
| STD | Sao Tome and Principe Dobra |
| SVC | El Salvador Colon |
| SYP | Syrian Pound |
| SZL | Swaziland Lilangeni |
| THB | Thai Baht |
| TND | Tunisian Dinar |
| TOP | Tongan Paanga |
| TPE | East Timor Escudo |
| TRY | Turkish Lira |
| TTD | Trinidad and Tobago Dollar |
| TWD | Taiwan Dollar |
| TZS | Tanzanian Schilling |
| UAH | Ukrainian Hryvnia |
| UGX | Uganda Shilling |
| USD | US Dollar |
| UYU | Uruguayan Peso |
| VEF | Venezuelan Bolivar |
| VND | Vietnamese Dong |
| VUV | Vanuatu Vatu |
| WST | Samoan Tala |
| XAF | Communauté Financière Africaine BEAC, Francs |
| XAG | Silver, Ounces |
| XAU | Gold, Ounces |
| XCD | East Caribbean Dollar |
| XDR | International Monetary Fund (IMF) Special Drawing Rights |
| XOF | Communauté Financière Africaine BCEAO - Francs |
| XPD | Palladium Ounces |
| XPF | Comptoirs Français du Pacifique Francs |
| XPT | Platinum, Ounces |
| YDD | Democratic Yemeni Dinar |
| YER | Rial |
| YUD | New Yugoslavia Dinar |
| ZAR | South African Rand |
| ZMK | Zambian Kwacha |
| ZRZ | Zaire Zaire |
| ZWD | Zimbabwe Dollar |
IT Visibility
IT Visibility added the following new features in September 2023.
New Hardware Evidence page
This feature is available with IT Visibility.
The new IT Visibility Hardware Evidence page (Inventory > IT Visibility Devices > Hardware Evidence) enables you to see all your discovered hardware evidence, including last inventory source and date with match counts overall. This evidence is aligned with normalized results where applicable.
For more information, see the Identifying Hardware Using Evidence topic in the Flexera One Help.
Configuring the Private Catalog for software
This feature is available with IT Visibility.
It is important for customers to see and manage software that is not part of the global Technopedia catalogue; for example, in-house software, custom third-party software, and software that is inappropriate or of too low priority to be included in the global Technopedia catalog. Previously, customers were not able to configure these types of software in Flexera One.
Now, IT Visibility provides the new functionality to configure software in the Private Catalog. You are able to:
- Create new releases in your Private Catalog with custom-defined information such as manufacturer, product, version, edition, and so on.
- Map your software evidence to your Private Catalog.
- Check whether the evidence is mapped to the global Technopedia catalog or your Private Catalog.
- Modify the mapping between evidence and linked releases.
- Remove the mapping to the Private Catalog and recover the mapping to the global Technopedia catalog.
For more information about using this new functionality, see Working With the Private Catalog.
Viewing discovered software evidence details
This feature is available with IT Visibility.
Previously, IT Visibility users were able to see all the discovered software evidence with overall m atch counts, aligned with normalized results where applicable, on the IT Visibility Software Evidence page (Applications & Evidence > IT Visibility Software > IT Visibility Software Evidence). However, users were not able to see the additional details of the discovered software evidence.
Now, the IT Visibility Software Evidence page also provides evidence details for the discovered software. You can click any evidence displayed on the page to view additional evidence details, such as type, data source, last found date, and so on. These details can help you better understand the link between evidence and normalization results.
For more information about the IT Visibility Software Evidence page, see Identifying Applications Using Evidence.
SaaS Management
SaaS Management released the following new features and enhancements in September 2023.
New SaaS Management insights for Microsoft 365 cost analysis and license downgrading
This enhancement is available with SaaS Management.
Flexera One’s SaaS Management includes the following new insights in the Users tab (SaaS > Managed SaaS Applications > Users) for analyzing Microsoft 365 cost analysis and downgrading Microsoft 365 user licenses.
- Block Credentials
- Sign in to M365 Domain
- Last Used M365 Application
- Is MFA Turned On
For more information, see the following topics in the Flexera One Help:
Improved data accuracy display of ServiceNow license consumption
This enhancement is available with SaaS Management.
Within the SaaS Management Overview tab (SaaS > Managed SaaS Applications > Overview) for ServiceNow Licensing and ServiceNow Licensing OAuth2, the Licenses table tracks your organization’s ServiceNow license consumption. If the total number assigned licenses is not available in SaaS Management, a dash “ - ” now displays in the Assigned column for data accuracy.
New Power BI reporting insights for ServiceNow subscriptions and allocations
This feature is available with SaaS Management.
Flexera One’s SaaS Management now offers Power BI extensible reporting for ServiceNow. The following new insights for analyzing ServiceNow subscriptions and allocations help identify license reclamation or downgrading opportunities.
- Executive Summary Report
- License Overview
- Use Verification Report (ServiceNow Audit Report)
- Subscriptions
- ServiceNow User Activity Tracking
While these insights will not be available within the SaaS Management user interface, you can use Power BI reporting to utilize these insights now. For further information, see the ServiceNow Power BI Reporting for Flexera One's SaaS Management Knowledge Base article.
Mapping ServiceNow role types to identify potential cost savings
This enhancement is available with SaaS Management.
By default, ServiceNow offers out-of-the-box (OOB) roles that are linked to subscriptions. Additionally, you can create a custom role for a subscription to grant access to approve requests or allowing a user to edit, create, or delete a record. Within the SaaS Management Users tab (SaaS > Managed SaaS Applications > Users) for ServiceNow Licensing and ServiceNow Licensing OAuth2, you can now map the ServiceNow Role Types to the number of OOB Roles and Custom Roles for each account user. Clicking a user’s Email in the Users tab opens a slideout to display the user’s assigned OOB Roles and Custom Roles. Users identified as being inactive or never active in using their custom roles may provide cost saving opportunities by having their custom roles disabled.
Technopedia
Technopedia released the following enhancements in September 2023.
Hardware specification enrichment data available in Technopedia UI
This enhancement is available with Technopedia.
This enhancement is only available for users who have the Flexera One Enrichment Pack entitlement. For more information, contact your account representative.
Enriched hardware inventory specification data includes hardware Technopedia attributes such as battery life, AC and DC power consumption, energy star certification, power rating of the device, and so on. This enrichment data can help you estimate your carbon footprint, plan for power consumption needs, and understand the environmental impact of your IT infrastructure.
Previously, the hardware specification enrichment data was only available in the Flexera One Technopedia API, but not in the Technopedia UI.
Now, you can also access this enrichment data in the Flexera One Technopedia UI hardware dashboards. For more information about how to use the Technopedia dashboards, see Technopedia Dashboards.
Open source enrichment data available in Technopedia UI
This enhancement is available with Technopedia.
This enhancement is only available for users who have the Flexera One Enrichment Pack entitlement. For more information, contact your account representative.
Enriched open source data that is normalized against Technopedia can help you identify whether a particular software component in your environment or from the Technopedia catalog is open source, along with the type of restriction associated with it. Using this data, you can manage the risks associated with open source software selection and deployment and protect yourself from unintended open source consequences.
Previously, this open source enrichment data was only available in the Flexera One Technopedia API, but not in the Technopedia UI.
Now, you can also access this enrichment data in the Flexera One Technopedia UI software dashboards. For more information about how to use the Technopedia dashboards, see Technopedia Dashboards.
Complete Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) data in Software Vulnerability Enrichment Pack
This feature is available with Technopedia.
Enriched data vulnerability and threats associated with software releases has been made available in Technopedia. However, previously this data pack only included data for all Secunia Advisory IDs (SAIDs) from the Secunia database, as well as the most critical and urgent Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVEs) that are linked to the SAIDs, but did not include data for the entire CVE set from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
Now, the Software Vulnerability Enrichment Pack incorporates comprehensive CVE data from NVD, which enhances user access to invaluable security risk insights and provides better assistance for users to prioritize their security response.
Changes to vulnerability enrichment data in Technopedia API
This enhancement is available with Technopedia.
Using Flexera One’s Technopedia API, you can manage vulnerable software and threats associated with your normalized inventory that gives directional insight and intelligence into your security risks. Using this data, you can see the risks in deployed software and patch versions, which will help you prioritize your security response.
With this enhancement, the following changes have been made to the Flexera One Technopedia API Datasets:
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Added the cvss3Vector field to the Vulnerability dataset.
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Added the logic for displaying the values of the following fields in the Vulnerability dataset:
- cvssVector —If cvssScore is 0, the cvssVector value does not display.
- cvss3Vector —If cvss3Score is 0, the cvss3Vector value does not display.
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Changed the field names of the following fields in the Cve dataset:
Old field name New field name cveRules threatRulescveScore threatScoreexploitScore threatScore -
Changed the CveRule dataset name to ThreatRule dataset.