Design Update: February'24

Summary of usability and design enhancements from `2024.2.x` releases.

Recent Veza releases feature a range of improvements for product usability and changes in product design. We've heard your feedback, and our design team is committed to improving your experience, making features more intuitive to use, and boosting efficiency and productivity across the Veza platform.

This month's updates focus on improved navigation, deeper insights, and refined Access Reviews and Lifecycle Management features. We hope that these improvements will empower you with better tools and a streamlined interface for understanding and managing access controls with Veza.

As always, your guidance is welcome as we incorporate your insights into our iterative development efforts. See the rest of this update to learn about recent improvements, and please reach out with your feedback and questions.

Veza Platform

• The global Veza navigation is updated to better organize features and typical operational areas. For more information about the changes or to submit your feedback, see UX Update - New Navigation Experience.

Access Search and Intelligence

• Details for Queries with Risks: On the Access Intelligence > Risks > Queries with Risks page, you can now click on the small graph next to each query to open an expanded view of changes in results over time.

• Snowflake Data Governance and Salesforce Access Security Dashboards: Two new dashboards are now available, providing tailored insights into inert users, roles and role access, and least-privilege anti-patterns.

• Risk Scores for Authorization Graph: When enabling Display Options > Risk Scores to highlight risks in the Authorization Graph, Risk Scores now appear next to each entity's name for better visibility into relative risk across different entities in search results.

• Alert Details: When a Rule triggers an Alert, events are logged on the Access Intelligence > Alerts page for tracking and remediation. For Alerts associated with a Jira Orchestration Action, an Actions column now includes the issue key and a clickable link to open the ticket in Jira. You can now click on actions of any type for more details about the rule that triggered the alert.

Access Reviews

• Access Reviews Terminology Changes: Based on customer feedback, we've updated the legacy term for the original query and settings from Workflow to Review Configuration. A single instance of access review for that configuration (previously a Certification) is now a Review.

• Automation Details: Access Reviews using Intelligent Automations now include an optional column to help identify results accepted or rejected when the Review was created. Clicking the value shows more information about the automation rule that was applied, and the resulting decision.

• Access Review Builder: The Access Reviews workflow creation modal now uses a step-by-step wizard for adding a description, specifying the query, and configuring email notifications and orchestration actions.

• The full text is now consistently shown when hovering over results in Access Reviews containing long strings.

• Expired and completed Reviews now support the row actions View Action Log and See Row Details, providing additional information about results in past Access Reviews.

Lifecycle Management

• Pending Tasks: Added a new page showing jobs queued for future execution based on a provisioning policy, including the scheduled time, job type, and provisioning source and target.

• Event Log Filtering and Column Improvements: Added the option to filter the list of completed provisioning events by user name and event type. The Timestamp column is now shown on the left and can be resized. Column width is optimized for better readability.