July 18, 2025: WitnessAI Update

Discovered Apps addresses the critical need for AI visibility by providing a source of truth for finding and investigating new AI applications being used in your environment, and providing an encyclopedia of knowledge about these applications.

This enables your team to quickly identify what's new in AI usage, understand risks that may require immediate action, and take actions directly on the same screen.

Discovered Apps is tightly integrated with the App Catalog, so the job of discovering, evaluating, and applying policy guardrails is a single integrated workflow!

Key Capabilities

Advanced filtering: Filtering discovered apps by risk and usage.

Filter persistence: Ensure filters persist after session timeout.

App list accuracy: improvements for incomplete or inconsistent discovered app listings.

New Apps notifications: Notify users when new apps are discovered.

Apps sorting: Filtering and sorting by risk and other attributes.

View the new Discovered Apps and App Catalog under the Discovery menu in your WitnessAI instance.

Learn more in the Discovered Apps documentation.

App Catalog

App Catalog has been completely updated, as well as integrated with our new Discovered Apps feature. Now the job of uncovering, investigating, and evaluating new AI Apps in use across your org becomes a single integrated workflow!

Evaluating new Application risks, data criticality, certification compliance, and security practices of Apps and Providers is all in one place, so your team can quickly make decisions and apply the appropriate policies to keep your organization, employees, and customers safely adopting new AI Apps.

Key Capabilities

Users: Tagging, search improvements, and navigation updates.

Search: Improvements in search speed and relevance.

User interface: Refined browsing experience and expanded app details.

Catalog: Add tagging for apps to aid categorization.

App details export: Allow exporting app metadata for offline use.

Fixes: Resolved crashes related to missing metadata.

Try the new App Catalog and Discovered Apps features under the Discovery menu in your WitnessAI console.

Learn more in the App Catalog documentation section.

Audit Logs

Comprehensive Audit Logs are now available for all actions performed by users on the WitnessAI platform. This enterprise-critical feature addresses compliance requirements and adoption barriers organizations face when implementing AI security configuration, policy enforcement, model protection, and governance.

Audit Logs are essential for organizations requiring comprehensive audit trails for compliance frameworks like SOC2 and ISO 27001.

Key Capabilities

Audit logs: Collect changes and updates across all product functions. Going forward all new features will be included in audit logs.

Complete logging: Logging of all configuration and settings changes, with detailed tracking.

SIEM forwarding: SIEM integrations can received audit logs alongside prompts and alerts.

Role-based access controls: Audit log access is restricted to users with admin roles.

Console access: Console provides filtering, search, and export capabilities.

API access: Filtered log retrieval is available via API.

Learn more in the Audit Logs documentation section.

Status Page

Status Pages now provide every customer an individual password-protected status page to view the status and availability of critical services for their dedicated WintessAI instance.

Key Capabilities and Monitored Services

HTTP GET to the Console.

HTTP GET to the API.

TCP 8443 for the Proxy (Witness-Anywhere).

Scheduled maintenance alerts

Subscriptions to status alerts and scheduled maintenance notifications support email, SMS, Slack, and Teams.

Learn more in the Status Page documentation.

Feature Updates

Secure AI Portal Enhancements

Initial release of Secure AI Portal for centralized AI governance.

Reporting: New detailed reporting capabilities.

User Access Controls: Enhance user management and access restrictions.

Logins: More reliable login experience.

User Interface: Improved portal navigation.

AI Model Monitoring: Added monitoring for AI model usage.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Enhancements

More granular user permissions and roles.

Bulk User Management: Enable bulk role and access changes.

Logouts: Resolve logout issues.

Role Propagation: Improved speed when applying role changes.

User Session Monitoring: Added session tracking for users.

User Activity Reports: Added reporting on user activities.

List Management Enhancements

Streamline blocklist and allowlist management features.

Import/Export: Enhanced import/export reliability.

Synchronization: More reliable synchronization.

Data Corruption Fixes: Resolve corruption in imports.

List Versioning: Version control for lists.

List Access Controls: Enforce permissions on list edits.

Behavioral Activity Analysis

New capabilities include:

Data Export: Support CSV and JSON export.

Filters: Additional filters for Behavioral Activity data.

Real-time Updates: Reduced data latency in dashboards.

User Behavior Reports: Added new report templates for Behavioral Activity analysis.

Risk Scoring: Corrected inconsistencies.

Settings UI & Config Enhancements

Add API key and proxy configuration options and improve UI navigation.

Navigation: Simplify navigation settings.

Help Tooltips: Add contextual help.

Mobile Crashes: Fix crashes on mobile.

API Key Management: Better API key lifecycle management.

Proxy Configuration: Enhanced proxy settings UI.

Known Issues

Current known issues include:

Discovered Apps: Filters Reset After Timeout: Filters may reset after user session timeout requiring reapplication.

App Catalog: Search Results Missing New Apps: New apps sometimes do not appear immediately in search results.

Analytics: Export Timeout on Large Data: Exports may time out for very large datasets and require retries.

Conversations: Message Ordering Errors: Messages may occasionally appear out of order, affecting audit timelines.

Users: Role Propagation Delays: Changes to user roles may take time to propagate.

Alerts: Delivery Delays: Alerts can be delayed during periods of heavy system load.

Lists: List Sync Failures: Intermittent failures observed during list synchronization.

Secure AI Portal: Secure AI Portal Browser Issues (): Some features may not load properly on older browsers.

Settings: Settings Changes Require Refresh: Certain configuration changes require a page refresh to take effect.

Fixed Issues

Notable issues fixed since the prior release include:

Home: Chart Rendering Fixed: Resolved issues where some charts failed to render correctly.

Discovered Apps: Complete App List Retrieval: Fixed bugs causing incomplete app list displays.

App Catalog: Crash Fixes on Missing Metadata: Prevented crashes when app metadata was missing.

Analytics: Risk Scoring Corrections: Corrected inconsistencies in risk scoring reports.

Conversations: Deleted Messages Removal: Deleted messages no longer appear in conversation logs.

Users: Logout Fixes: Fixed logout failures experienced by some users.

Alerts: Alert Dismissal Saving: Fixed issues where alert dismissal states were not saved reliably.

Lists: List Import Corruption Fixes: Resolved data corruption errors occurring during list imports.

Secure AI Portal: Login Fixes: Fixed login failures under specific scenarios.

Settings: Mobile Settings Crashes Fixed: Resolved crashes on the settings page for mobile users.

Breaking Changes

No breaking changes identified in this release.

WitnessAI Release Notes - July 18 2025