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Common Services: Identity and Access Management Release Updates

Learn about the latest features and known issues related to Common Services: Identity and Access Management.
Here’s where you can learn about the latest features related to Common Services: Identity and Access Management and the known issues the team is working on to improve your experience.

Release Updates: Known Issues

These are the issues we’re currently working on. If no issues are listed, then there are no outstanding known issues.

Release Updates: What's New

Here’s what’s new in Common Services: Identity and Access Management. You can also check what’s new for NetSec, Subscription and Tenant Management, Device Associations, and Strata Multitenant Cloud Manager.

What's new in April 2024

The following new items were released in April 2024.

Enhancements to View Only Administrator Role

In Identity and Access Management, the View Only Administrator role is extended to include support for the Strata Logging Service application.

What's new in October 2023

The following new items were released in October 2023.
New Features in October 2023
PAN resource name update
In PAN Resource Names, the app_id property field contains updated application IDs.

What's new in September 2023

The following new items were released in September 2023.
New Features in September 2023
Assign roles redesign
You can now assign multiple roles to one application, and the web interface displays more clearly which roles are inherited and can't be deleted.

What's new in July 2023

The following new items were released in July 2023.
New Features in July 2023
Custom role support for Common Services
When managing custom roles through Identity & Access/Access ManagementRolesAdd Custom Role, all menu items related to Common Services are now supported.

What's new in June 2023

The following new items were released in June 2023.
New Features in June 2023
Strata Cloud ManagerDepending on your licensed products, and if you have received information about the migration of your tenant, you might begin to manage and monitor your network and security infrastructure through Strata Cloud Manager. You still use the same Common Services for identity and access management, but you access it through Settings.

What's new in April 2023

The following new items were released in April 2023.
New Features in April 2023
Tenant mapping
You can now map tenants for authorization and update tenant mapping for authorization to grant authorization to your users by passing the login information through your Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) provider.
Role names
The following role names have been revised:
  • from MSP Superuser to Multitenant Superuser
  • from MSP IAM Administrator to Multitenant IAM Administrator
  • from MT Manage User to Multitenant Manage User
  • from MT Monitor User to Multitenant Monitor User

What's new in March 2023

The following new items were released in March 2023.
New Features in March 2023
Clone roles
If you require more granular access control than the predefined roles provide, you can now create a new role by cloning a role from an existing predefined role or an existing custom role, and making changes to it.
Custom role API permissions Custom role permissions are now split between Web UI and API for even more granular permissions.
Supported apps per role
About roles and permissions is updated to show which apps can be used with each predefined role.

What’s new in February 2023

The following new items were released in February 2023.
New Features in February 2023
Posture Security roles
You can now assign the Posture Security Administrator or Posture Security View only roles for managing access to standalone Saas Security Posture Management (SSPM).
Custom roles
You can now add custom roles and modify custom roles if you require more granular access control for your users and service groups than the predefined roles provide.

What’s New in December 2022

The following new items were released in December 2022.
New Features in December 2022
Third Party Identity Provider Integrations
You can now manage third party provider integrations so that users of different enterprises or domains can use the same digital identity to access all their applications.
ADEM Tier 1 Support role
You can now assign the ADEM Tier 1 Support role to third party helpdesk employees for access to specific incident remediation workflows in Prisma Access Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM).

What’s New in November 2022

The following new items were released in November 2022.
New Features in November 2022
Browser role
You can now assign the Browser role for user access to only the common services features required by Palo Alto Networks UI.