Fortra's Q3 2025 Data Protection Advances: Enhanced User Experience and Expanded Platform Integration

Fortra's Data Protection portfolio continued its evolution throughout Q3 2025, with releases focused on delivering more intuitive interfaces, strengthening platform integration, and expanding compatibility across diverse enterprise environments. These updates reflect our commitment to making sophisticated data protection capabilities more accessible while ensuring our solutions work seamlessly within the complex technology ecosystems our customers depend on. This past quarter brought significant advances across both Fortra Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Data Classification products focusing on modernization and integration.

Modern Interfaces and Seamless Platform Integration

Q3's releases emphasized the importance of user experience in security tools. The preview of the rebranded Network DLP Management Console represents a significant step toward a more intuitive administrative experience, while DCS Policy Manager's integration with the Fortra Platform marks an important milestone in unified security management. These improvements reflect our understanding that effective security tools must be both powerful and accessible—enabling security teams to work more efficiently without sacrificing control or visibility.

Beyond interface improvements, this quarter delivered substantial advances in platform interoperability. Enhanced support for Microsoft's evolving email infrastructure, including refined handling of the New Outlook Add-in across multiple platforms, ensures that data protection policies work reliably within modern collaboration environments. The introduction of SharePoint interoperability features in DCS for Windows addresses real-world challenges that arise when organizations use multiple classification systems, preventing metadata conflicts that can disrupt workflows.

Expanded Compatibility and Enhanced Reliability

A consistent focus throughout Q3 was ensuring our solutions remain compatible with the latest operating systems and applications. Certification for macOS 26 (Tahoe), extensive Linux kernel support including RHEL 10.0, and confirmed support for Windows 11 24H2 demonstrate our commitment to supporting customers as they adopt newer technologies. These aren't merely technical checkboxes—they represent assurance that security controls will continue functioning as organizations modernize their infrastructure.

The quarter also brought meaningful reliability improvements. Critical fixes addressed issues ranging from email flow disruptions to application crashes, while enhancements like Fast Path Filtering in the Windows Agent improve performance by intelligently reducing unnecessary system overhead. For organizations managing data protection at scale, these operational improvements translate directly to reduced administrative burden and more consistent policy enforcement.

Notable Releases

Fortra Network DLP Appliance 13.0

This release introduces an early preview of the upcoming Fortra-branded Management Console interface, giving administrators a first look at a refreshed user experience. While the preview is primarily for visual reference and feedback rather than full functionality, it signals the direction of future enhancements. The release also delivers critical operational improvements that enhance monitoring reliability and prevent service disruptions. Specific fixes address issues with password-protected file detection, cloud service scanning, and HTTPS traffic monitoring. Most notably, the release resolves a problem where service crashes could trigger full system reboots and disrupt email flow. These updates all go toward building a more trustworthy and streamlined user experience, meaning you’ll spend less time dealing with failed scans, undetected files, and tedious errors, and more time on high-fidelity security concerns worthy of your attention.

Fortra DLP Agent for Windows (Multiple Versions)

The DLP Agent for Windows saw several releases throughout Q3, addressing compatibility, performance, and functionality needs. The most substantial update introduces Fast Path Filtering that intelligently reduces system overhead by skipping irrelevant or safe system files during security scans. In other words, scan times will be shorter without sacrificing any part of your overall security posture, meaning continuous security and improved threat response times are made more possible without creating more headaches for your security teams. What’s more, additional improvements to Fast Path Filtering are planned for future releases.

These releases bring enhanced control over email event handling in the New Outlook Add-in. Administrators can now choose whether to process SendMail events and configure what happens when the Add-in times out, either allowing or blocking emails based on their organization's risk tolerance. These controls address real-world scenarios where timeout handling impacts both user productivity and security enforcement.

Additional updates ensure the agent runs correctly on Windows 11 24H2, giving customers time to plan upgrades. A configurable option for clipboard monitoring recognizes that while necessary for Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP) in Word, it may cause issues with other applications. Fixes addressed network-related crashes affecting remote desktop and file transfer applications, application sync problems, service conflicts, and browser responsiveness. One notable enhancement prevents email header properties from propagating unnecessarily, which is recommended for customers encountering Outlook header quota limits.

Microsoft Outlook Add-in for Fortra DLP Agent 5.1 & 6.0

The Microsoft Outlook Add-in saw significant functional improvements closely coordinated with Agent releases. These updates introduce better tracking of email send actions and enable prompts to display reliably before emails are sent, addressing previous limitations and offering a more consistent user experience. Fixes resolved a compatibility issue that prevented the Add-in from loading properly in legacy Outlook on Windows. These coordinated updates between the Add-in and Agent ensure data protection policies function reliably across Microsoft's evolving email ecosystem. Users can rest assured that security incidents as a result of Windows and/or Outlook coverage gaps will be few and far between, meaning your teams’ efforts can go toward preventing multi-stage attacks, responding to zero-day exploits, fixing misconfigurations, and addressing other high-fidelity threats and vulnerabilities.

DCS Data Detection Engine 5.0

This release expands global data protection capabilities with support for additional personally identifiable information (PII) formats across seven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain. Organizations operating in these regions can now implement more effective data protection policies that account for local regulatory requirements and data formats. The release also enables deployment in highly secure or air-gapped environments with no internet access, and confirms support for Windows Server 2025. Updates include updated Fortra DCS branding and removal of support for 32-bit systems and RHEL deployment, reflecting industry trends toward modern computing environments.

DCS Policy Manager (SaaS) 2025.07 & 2025.07.1

These releases center on platform integration and expanded functionality. Updates introduce integration with the Fortra Platform for unified security management. The DCS Console now includes a "Login with Fortra" button for integrated customers, while those not using the Platform continue using Microsoft authentication. Note that Configuration Targeting is not available for Platform-integrated customers in this release.

For DCS for Windows, new capabilities include policies that trigger when users open emails or calendar items, a manual policy check button for users, and the ability to require justification when users update classification values—providing valuable audit information. Additional enhancements help preserve document formatting when applying visual markings and address metadata conflicts that arise when organizations classify documents in both SharePoint and other repositories. For Data at Rest, a new action enables modification of custom properties during scans. Infrastructure improvements include certificate renewals and cloud service updates.

Additional Fortra DLP Releases

Analytics & Reporting Cloud (ARC) 5.4.0 and 5.5.0

These releases improved workspace navigation by remembering the last tab users were working in, eliminating repetitive navigation. Fixes addressed export functionality, filter application, domain synchronization issues, link bindings, and alarm triggering.

Fortra DLP Agent for Mac 9.2.0

This release brings certification for Apple macOS 26 (Tahoe), ensuring compatibility with the latest Mac operating system. Updates provide more granular control over which traffic is monitored, allow administrators to enable or disable Proxy Monitoring when Transparent Proxy is active, and support improved email tracking in the New Outlook Add-in (similar to the Windows Agent). Fixes addressed context menu behavior, installation warnings, classification tag persistence, and text pasting issues.

Fortra DLP Agent for Linux 11.0.0

This release delivers extensive kernel certification, supporting numerous new kernels across RHEL 10.0, 9.6, 9.4, 8.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04. This broad support ensures the Linux Agent remains compatible as organizations update their infrastructure. The release also improves diagnostic collection capabilities.

Fortra Secure Collaboration 3.24.2

This release extends support to SharePoint and OneDrive files on Windows and adds support for PDF-XChange Pro-Editor Plus plugins. The SaaS version updates security permissions—note that all existing Azure app shares must be reauthenticated following this release. A fix addresses an issue where the Mac Client's workflow with Excel failed to secure files properly.

Additional Data Classification Releases

DCS for Windows 6.0.1 and 6.0.2

These releases fixed issues with incorrect classification selections displayed in the Outlook ribbon, dialog display problems, and a condition property exception. Both releases support Windows 10, Office 2016, and Office 2019.

DCS for OWA 2024.0.1

This release updates authentication infrastructure in response to Microsoft turning off legacy Exchange Online tokens, ensuring continued functionality for Exchange Online mailboxes. The release also updates to .NET 8.0.

DCS One (On-premises) 5.0

This release provides a customer-hosted solution ensuring Outlook emails and Office Online documents are classified before distribution. The solution supports Chrome, Edge, and Firefox for web-based Office applications and enables message classification in New Outlook for Windows.

Fortra Data Classifier Mail Add-in 3.13.4

This release updates authentication for Exchange Online mailboxes in response to Microsoft's token changes. A fix resolves Unicode character display issues in alert messages.

SAFEmail Product Line 3.9.3

Includes: SAFEmail, SAFEmail GreenShield Expansion Pack, SAFEmail P7 Transport, and SAFEmail Security

These releases confirm support for Microsoft Office 2021 and Microsoft 365. Updates include enhanced control over ribbon button visibility, allowing administrators to hide certain buttons unless explicitly enabled. Fixes address Outlook crashes, configuration issues on Windows 11 24H2, and attachment handling problems.

SharePoint Classifier 3.11.3

This release addresses Microsoft's custom script blocking by adjusting permission requirements. SharePoint Classifier now only requires elevated permissions during initial configuration by administrators—after setup, users don't need these permissions to label files.