ThingsRecon Version 5.4 Release Notes

Release Date: 23 July 2025

Dashboard Update

Introducing a powerful new Dashboard experience that delivers key insights at a glance for any selected "Thing". This update brings enhanced visibility, faster navigation, and richer context across your organization’s digital footprint.

Dashboard Overview

The new Dashboard view provides an at-a-glance summary of relevant findings, and by default, it includes three core widgets:

• Heatmap
• Worldmap
• Things

A fourth widget, Supply Chain, is available to customers with an active subscription to this service.

Selecting a Thing from the top bar dynamically updates all widgets to reflect associated findings—including applications, domains, IPs, and more.

Heatmap

The Heatmap widget offers a detailed view of discovered assets and associated metadata for:

• Discovery
• Hygiene
• Actions

These categories appear on the left and can be expanded via the arrow icon. Within each category, the "# others" option reveals additional filters. 

For instance, selecting "SSO" under Discovery filters the assets on the right-hand side to show only those using Single Sign-On. Clicking the filter again removes it.

• Asset Tiles:
  • The right side lists discovered assets.
  • Each tile includes a risk score and category tags (e.g., web app, file sharing, third party).
  • Clicking a tile opens the detailed Things Passport view for deeper insight.

Worldmap

The Worldmap widget visualizes asset distribution and risk indicators globally, based on selected filters.

• It updates in real time when a Thing or filter (e.g., applications with a clear login form under Hygiene) is applied.

• Clicking the widget opens the full Worldmap view, where the same filters and discovery options can be explored in greater detail.

Things

The Things widget summarizes discovered assets by type (applications, domains, IPs, etc.).

• Each button displays a count of identified assets for the selected Indicator.
• Clicking a button opens the Things table view, where users can sort, filter, and analyze findings.
  Note: if a Discovery, Hygiene or Action parameter has been selected, the Things table view will reflect this filtered data.

Supply Chain (Subscription Required)

For subscribed users, the Supply Chain widget provides visibility into:

• The number of digitally connected suppliers.
• The number of supplier connections discovered (e.g., MX, SPF, Certificates, Software).

This offers a high-level overview of third-party exposure in your digital ecosystem.

Architecture Improvements

An event-driven orchestration architecture has been implemented to enable more advanced features and better performance.

Users will see a new scan status description called "queued". This means that the orchestrator will run the scan when a slot comes available.

In case of subscription, Suppliers get scanned automatically in case no result was available. 

UX Improvements

• "Things" UI presents properly when breadcrumb menu is opened.
• New columns for customers integrating with external testing systems. "Sync Status" and "Sync Status Details" columns have been added to the "Things" table. 
• Chatbot implementation for user searchability
• Left side navigation collapsed by default
• Improved dashboard side navigation, new icon, deeper drill down.
• Implemented priority queues for jobs to ensure that short tasks aren't delayed by longer ones, especially when the platform is under heavy load.
• New column "Failure exit description" now added to "Jobs" view.
• Supply Chain: Supplier Scan Status visible from Supply Chain for subscribed suppliers.

Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements

• Abort request filter fix
• Date filter issue resolved
• Fixed an issue with TRA results showing NA upon refresh
• TRC screen message updated for first comparison. Previously showed a "failed" message.
• Views take browser size into account
• Third party detection improvements
• Multiple scan crash cases fixed
• Resolved Risk Score Letter overlaps "Cyber Hygiene Resilience"
• Fixed incorrect supplier detections

Read more from our team in the ThingsRecon blog