CylancePROTECT Mobile

release notes

Support for the Play Integrity API

The May release of the

CylancePROTECT Mobile

app adds support for the

Play Integrity

API for attestation of the app on

Android

devices.

Play Integrity

attestation replaces

SafetyNet

attestation. Older versions of the app will continue to support

SafetyNet

attestation until Google removes support.

To ensure that

Play Integrity

attestation works as expected, instruct users to update to the latest version of

Google Play

.

Change to

Android

OS support

The May release of the

CylancePROTECT Mobile

app removes support for the

Android

9 OS.

Record of the most recent device scan

The Device Health section of the

CylancePROTECT Mobile

app will indicate when the most recent scan for threats occurred.

Browser support

The

CylancePROTECT Mobile

app now supports the

Firefox

and

Brave

browsers for

Android

.

New name for the app

The late July release rebrands the

BlackBerry Protect

app to the

CylancePROTECT Mobile

app.

Samsung Knox

Enhanced Attestation

This release supports the use of

Samsung Knox

Enhanced Attestation in regular intervals to validate the integrity of users’

Samsung

devices.

Knox

Enhanced Attestation is hardware-based and can detect device tampering, rooting, OEM unlock, and IMEI or serial number falsification, in addition to performing app health checks.

Enhancements to SMS monitoring for

Android

devices

This release introduces new options in

CylancePROTECT Mobile

policies that allow you to specify an age threshold for SMS messages that can be scanned (up to 7 days old), and the ability to obfuscate certain pieces of data that

Cylance Endpoint Security

collects, including URLs and the email or phone number of the sender. When a malicious URL is detected in a text message, an alert is reported in the management console on the Protection > Protect Mobile Alerts page.

Administrator controls for detecting developer mode on

Android

devices

Previously, the ability to detect developer mode on

Android

devices was always on and you did not have the option to turn this feature off. In this release,

CylancePROTECT Mobile

policies now include the option to turn this feature on or off. When developer mode is detected on a device, an alert is reported in the management console on the Protection > Protect Mobile Alerts page.