Community Update - April Edition

[derek.putnam]

There are some changes in the community, and we’re not joking!

What’s New in the Netwrix Community

New Product Names

To reflect the name changes for our products, you’ll notice that some of your favorite categories have also been updated! Here’s a handy table:

Previous name	New name
Enterprise Auditor	Access Analyzer
GroupID	Directory Manager
PolicyPak	Endpoint Policy Manager
Strongpoint for NetSuite	Platform Governance for NetSuite
Strongpoint for Salesforce	Platform Governance for Salesforce
Usercube	Identity Manager

Don’t worry! Any bookmarks or shortcuts you set will auto-forward to the updated names.

Product Announcements in the Community

Now that announcements are in the community, we’re working to standardize several aspects about them, such as when they’re posted and how they look!

Announcement Schedule

As part of the new process, if there is going to be an announcement about your product, it will be made at 7 AM CST on Tuesday or Thursday (e.g, 12:00:00 PM or 12:00:00 PM) in the respective product announcement category.

This does not include critical updates. Those will be sent ASAP.

Be sure to subscribe to announcements in those specific categories to receive alerts. For more info on how to subscribe to categories and tags, check out our guide here.

Announcement Format

Have you viewed any of the existing announcements in your favorite product? If it was within the last week (or if a fresh one has been posted), odds are it follows our new announcement template.

This template aims to help announcements stand apart while looking similar. Each announcement starts with a relevant image to convey the type: major, minor, or patch.

After that, you’re at the core of the announcement: what’s new! It will start with the big new shiney changes to the product, then the changes to the adjacent aspects, and finally the bug-fixes.

Lastly, now that announcements are in the community, we invite you to leave feedback on them!

Security Updates in the Community

In addition to product announcements coming to the community, general security announcements and product-specific security advisories are here as well!

Did you notice the Trust & Security link in the sidebar?

This displays all security-advisory topics that have been made in the community, across all categories.

What are your thoughts?

We are always happy to hear from our users on what you like, and what you hope to see in the future. Please, share your thoughts below!

[matheus (Matheus Nascimento)]

Nice, the new names better reflect what each product does.

[mrakov (Martin Rakov)]

I love the new naming in general except the Enterprise Auditor. It fits much more than Access Analyzer in my opinion as Access Analyzer sounds like its going to be deeply focused and mainly on accesses and thats not really true… its an auditor and its more enterprise than Netwrix Auditor. Whats the logic behind this name? All of the rest are perfect fit.

[Tatiana.Severina]

Hi Martin,

Thank you for the feedback, and it’s good to hear the rest of the naming landed well

You’re right that the product goes well beyond access governance. We chose Access Analyzer to reflect the key drivers we’ve seen in recent years: understanding and reducing risks tied to access, whether to data, systems, or AD itself.

We also wanted to clearly differentiate it from Netwrix Auditor, since the naming overlap was causing confusion despite very different scopes.

That said, you are absolutely correct, it’s a powerful, enterprise-grade tool, and we’re working to ensure the messaging reflects the product’s full value.

Really appreciate your perspective here, feedback like yours helps us keep improving how we tell the story. Always open to more if you have it!

[mrakov (Martin Rakov)]

Hi Tatiana,

Well i am confused from your answer but… i am 100% sure that StealthAudit isnt Access Analyzer only in what the IT world understands and this name may create some confusion, but hopefully not.
Let me give you a few examples from a well-established names on the market that use this term:
About Access Analyzer - Palo Alto mention this regarding their Prisma SASE solution and its concerning only accesses.
AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer - Amazon Web Services - in AWS this is part of their IAM offering and is the part of the product concerning only accesses.
Access Analyzer - ServiceNow also mention this only as part of the product concerning the access rights analyzing of every identity in the platform

I did my research for the rest products and they all fit perfect.