Common Services: Identity and Access Management Release Updates
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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 October 2024
- What's new in April 2024
- What's new in October 2023
- What's new in September 2023
- What's new in July 2023
- What's new in June 2023
- What's new in April 2023
- What's new in March 2023
- What’s new in February 2023
- What’s New in December 2022
- What’s New in November 2022
What's New in October 2024
The following new items were released in October 2024.
Browser Role Deprecation
The Identity and Access predefined Browser role is no longer required and access to
essential Strata Cloud Manager features is now automatically enabled. To complete
identity and access creation for new users, simply add the required predefined or custom roles.
For users who already have a predefined or custom role assigned for All Apps &
Services, access will be uninterrupted. For users who had only the predefined
Browser role assigned for All Apps & Services, the access policy will be
removed; you will need to create a new role and assign a predefined or custom role
for All Apps & Services or any other app service.
Tabs for Custom and Predefined Roles
The Identity and Access Roles page is redesigned with tabs to separate the predefined
and custom roles. This changes the navigation. To add custom roles, for example, you
navigate to .
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Table Data Download
You can now download the Identity and Access access management table data in CSV
format. The download icon is available at . The downloaded list displays the same titles that you see in the
table: Type,Display Name,Identity,Applications,Role,Scope,Inherited
From.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 , all menu items related to Common Services are now supported.
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What's new in June 2023
The following new items were released in June 2023.
| New Features in June 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Strata Cloud Manager | Depending 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.
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| Role names |
The following role
names have been revised:
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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.
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| 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.
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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).
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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).
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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.
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