Policy non-compliance: Automatic Updates

Hi Everyone,

We have an official announcement on the reported issue. 

On October 21, 2018, we released a policy update for Macs, which updated the strength of the updating password encryption. This has resulted in some Macs reporting Policy Non-Compliance: Updating, as the systems took in the new encryption. The systems have moved over to the updated policy automatically, so this alert in central can be acknowledged. For more details please refer the below KBA.

Central Dashboard shows Policy Non-Compliance: Updating for Macs

Gowtham - This is poor response on Sophos's part. Sophos botched a roll out. The answer is simple, fix it. It may have been meant to have this in place when the new encryption was available but that failed. Remove it until Sophos either learns how to have it in place without causing invalid alerts or until the new encryption is in place.

Also, your date is incorrect. The first reported instance of this alert in my Sophos Central was Oct 20th at 4:33 PM CDT (GMT -5). The alert does not post until 2 hour after the non-compliance was detected, that puts us at 2:33 PM CDT. Germany is 7 hours ahead of CDT so that would make it Oct 20th at 9:33 PM at the latest, which is still not Oct 21st.

Gowtham - This is poor response on Sophos's part. Sophos botched a roll out. The answer is simple, fix it. It may have been meant to have this in place when the new encryption was available but that failed. Remove it until Sophos either learns how to have it in place without causing invalid alerts or until the new encryption is in place.

Also, your date is incorrect. The first reported instance of this alert in my Sophos Central was Oct 20th at 4:33 PM CDT (GMT -5). The alert does not post until 2 hour after the non-compliance was detected, that puts us at 2:33 PM CDT. Germany is 7 hours ahead of CDT so that would make it Oct 20th at 9:33 PM at the latest, which is still not Oct 21st.