{"id":15079,"date":"2020-07-17T12:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=15079"},"modified":"2024-10-05T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T21:00:14","slug":"chrome-84-sophos-authentication-for-thin-clients-satc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/07\/17\/chrome-84-sophos-authentication-for-thin-clients-satc\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome 84 &amp; Sophos Authentication for Thin Clients (SATC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Stop.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/chrome-84-sophos-authentication-for-thin-clients-satc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]A brief note for administrators who use Sophos Authentication for Thin Clients (SATC) in conjunction with a Chromium 84 browser There will be problems with authentication using SATC and the XG firewall. The recommendation is to prevent updating the Chromium browser and use Firefox as the browser.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg04.met.vgwort.de\/na\/202358b1d95f4e2e839cfb299563e867\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>This week, the Google Chrome browser was released in version 84 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/07\/15\/chrome-84-0-4147-89-freigegeben\/\">Chrome 84.0.4147.89 released<\/a>) and is now being rolled out step by step. Microsoft has also released a security update for the Chromium Edge Browser 84 (<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/07\/17\/microsoft-edge-84-0-522-40-freigegeben\/\">see<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2>Authentication issues with SATC and the XG Firewall<\/h2>\n<p>German blog reader Bernie refers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/chrome-84-0-4147-89-freigegeben\/#comment-92096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this comment<\/a> to a email distributed to Sophos users (see also this Sophos support article). Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Sophos customer,<\/p>\n<p>You are receiving this email because our records show that you are using Sophos Authentication for Thin Clients (SATC).<\/p>\n<p>If your default browser is Mozilla Firefox, there is no need to take action.<\/p>\n<p>Version 84 of Google Chrome and other chromium-based browsers is expected to be released on 14 July 2020.<br \/>\nThis version will remove a feature that is required to ensure compatibility with SATC.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, authentication with SATC and the XG firewall will no longer be able to correctly identify the user associated with web browsing traffic in Chrome.<br \/>\nThis leads to policy and web traffic reporting errors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Who is affected?<\/h2>\n<p>According to Sophos, all XG firewall customers using SATC on thin client deployments running multi-user Windows services such as Windows Remote Desktop or Terminal Services using Chrome or Chromium-based browsers will be affected. The measures recommended by Sophos are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use Mozilla Firefox, this browser is still fully compatible with SATC<\/li>\n<li>Prevent updating in Google Chrome by disabling automatic updating.<\/li>\n<li>If you are using the new Microsoft Edge browser, disable automatic updating. The original Microsoft Edge Browser is not affected by this issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information and links to instructions on how to manage settings in different browsers, see the knowledgebase article. However, Sophos is working on a new approach to authentication to multi-user Windows services, which will be compatible with future versions of Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. The vendor intends to provide information as soon as there is any news on this. Maybe it will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]A brief note for administrators who use Sophos Authentication for Thin Clients (SATC) in conjunction with a Chromium 84 browser There will be problems with authentication using SATC and the XG firewall. The recommendation is to prevent updating the Chromium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/07\/17\/chrome-84-sophos-authentication-for-thin-clients-satc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[872,463,1547],"tags":[780,466,254,2524],"class_list":["post-15079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser","category-issue","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-problem","tag-sophos","tag-xg-firewall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35904,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15079\/revisions\/35904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}