Fortra's Q2 2025 data protection releases represent a significant step forward in making enterprise data protection both more powerful and more accessible. These updates reflect our commitment to addressing the evolving needs of organizations managing increasingly complex data environments while maintaining the highest standards of protection and compliance. Here's what customers can look forward to in our most recent releases:
Simplified Operations and Enhanced User Experience
The complexity of modern data protection shouldn't burden the teams responsible for implementing and maintaining these critical solutions. This past quarter's releases focus heavily on streamlining operations and reducing the administrative overhead that often accompanies robust security measures. By introducing more intuitive interfaces, automated processes, and clearer organizational structures, these updates enable teams to accomplish more with less effort while maintaining comprehensive protection.
Enhanced Integration and Reliability
Organizations also benefit from enhanced integration capabilities that work seamlessly with existing Microsoft environments and other common tools. As enterprises continue to adopt cloud-first strategies and modern productivity solutions, having data protection solutions that integrate naturally with these platforms becomes essential for maintaining both security and operational efficiency. Alongside these integration improvements, this past quarter's releases include numerous stability enhancements and bug fixes that ensure consistent, reliable performance across diverse enterprise environments.
Q2 2025 Product Updates
Digital Guardian Management Console (DGMC) 9.0
DGMC 9.0 introduces a fundamentally simplified approach to data protection policy management through its new top-down methodology. This release makes it significantly easier for administrators to create, deploy, and maintain comprehensive data protection policies across their organization.
Key features include:
- Streamlined rule language: Reduces complexity while maintaining granular control
- Enhanced menu visualization: Removes excessive icons for a cleaner interface, preparing for the upcoming simplified Control Policy Manager
- MVP Control Policy Manager: Enables a functional but basic preview designed for early feedback (not intended to replace existing policies)
- Reportable summaries: Provides clear, actionable insights for business and compliance users without requiring deep technical expertise
Operational improvements focus on workflow efficiency:
- Asynchronous policy import: Allows users to continue working while policies are imported in the background
- Improved policy import tracking: Provides detailed visibility with comprehensive activity logs
- Flexible configuration options: Choice between synchronous and asynchronous imports, plus automatic or manual proxy configurations
- Transparent Proxy Network Extension for Mac: Streamlines traffic routing and reduces network configuration complexity
Data Classification Suite (DCS) for Windows 6.0
DCS for Windows 6.0 brings significant enhancements for organizations operating in modern Microsoft environments, with comprehensive support for Microsoft Entra ID users and groups in cloud environments. This enables more sophisticated and tailored targeting of classification configurations based on your organizational structure and access requirements.
Integration and compatibility improvements include:
- Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Information Protection support: Flexible deployment paths aligned with existing Microsoft infrastructure
- Microsoft Office 2024 compatibility: Confirmed support while maintaining compatibility with systems approaching extended support deadlines
- CAD file support: New CAD Embedded Metadata Adapter extends classification to AutoCAD files (.dwg and .dxf) for 2013 and later versions
Enhanced customization options provide greater control over user experience:
- Classification bars: Configure color associations, selection formats, and user control options for Classification Preview and Information bars
- Ribbon integration: Support for Favorites makes frequently used classifications more accessible
- Content Validation Profiles: New configuration options available in DCS Policy Manager
This release includes numerous reliability improvements and bug fixes that enhance overall stability and performance, particularly in virtual server environments and when working with roaming profiles, ensuring confident deployment across diverse enterprise environments.
Additional Digital Guardian Releases
The Digital Guardian platform received various other updates focused on reliability and compatibility improvements across both Windows and Mac environments. Digital Guardian for Windows 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 resolved critical issues with forensic reporting accuracy, browser compatibility, and proxy resolution in restricted DNS environments. Key improvements include enhanced Microsoft Outlook stability, better NetOp control rule processing through internal proxies, and resolved system crashes.
Digital Guardian for Mac 9.1 introduced support for localhost as an upstream proxy when Transparent Proxy is enabled, along with enhanced process flags support for ADE features. Digital Guardian Analytics & Reporting Cloud (ARC) 5.3 received an upgraded Angular version that enhances security, supportability, and performance with smoother page transitions.
Additional Data Classification Releases
Our Data Classification solutions saw significant improvements in cloud integration and policy management capabilities. DCS for Data at Rest 6.0 and 6.1 enhanced SharePoint integration with support for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, resolved folder name compatibility issues, and introduced new cloud actions for SharePoint managed metadata and date offset capabilities.
DCS Policy Manager and DCS One updates focused on expanded authentication options and enhanced customization. Notable additions include the Smart Regular Expression Custom Condition, Microsoft's Nested App Authentication (NAA) for improved single sign-on, and expanded PowerPoint Online support. The new DCS One (on-premises) offering provides organizations with full data protection capabilities for Microsoft 365 Online tools while maintaining complete infrastructure control—something particularly valuable for organizations with strict data residency requirements.
Fortra's Q2 Data Protection enhancements collectively demonstrate Fortra's commitment to simplifying data protection management while expanding integration capabilities and ensuring robust, reliable performance across all supported platforms.
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