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What's new in the
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent for
macOS

What's new for the
macOS
agent 3.3.1000

Feature
Description
USB device control
The
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent for
macOS
3.3 now supports the USB device control feature, which allows administrators to control whether to allow or block access to USB mass storage devices. Administrators can turn on device control for
macOS
devices from the device policy for storage devices classified as USB optical drives or USB storage drives (such as hard drives or flash drives).
Removed support for
macOS
10.14 (Mojave) and 10.15 (Catalina)
The
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent no longer supports devices running
macOS
10.14 (Mojave) or 10.15 (Catalina). However, legacy support for
macOS
10.15 devices running
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent version 3.2.100x is still available.

What's new for the
macOS
agent 3.2.1000

Feature
Description
Background threat detection on-demand scan
Administrators can now initiate a background threat detection scan on demand from the management console. The command can be sent from the Device Details screen for an individual device, or for multiple devices at once from the Devices screen.
Added support for
macOS
14 (Sonoma)
The
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent for
macOS
3.2 now supports devices that are running
macOS
14 (Sonoma). You must use this agent version even though previous versions of the agent might continue to run on the device.
The supported upgrade path is that you must upgrade to agent 3.2.1000 first, before you upgrade to
macOS
14. For example, upgrade the agent to version 3.2.1000 while the device is running
macOS
13, then upgrade to
macOS
14.   

What's new for the
macOS
agent 3.1.1000

Feature
Description
Added support for
macOS
13
The
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent 3.1 now supports devices that are running
macOS
13 (Ventura).
You must upgrade to
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent 3.1 on devices that are running
macOS
13, even though agent version 3.0 might continue to run on these devices after upgrading to
macOS
13.
Custom interval for background threat detection scanning
Administrators can now set a custom interval to run background threat detection scanning from the device policy. The scan interval can be set between 1 and 90 days. The default scan interval is 10 days. Note that increasing the frequency of the scans might impact device performance. You can also start the scan manually from the command line.
The date of the last scan for each device is logged in the management console.

What's new for the
macOS
agent 3.0.1000

Feature
Description
Added support for
macOS
12
The
CylancePROTECT Desktop
agent now supports devices that are running
macOS
12 (Monterey).

What's new for the
macOS
agent 2.1.1594

Item
Description
Apple
Mac M1 ARM processor support
The
CylancePROTECT Desktop
now supports devices that use the
Apple
Mac M1 ARM processor.