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Introduction of Rule Builder User Interface for Creating and Managing Rules

The user interface for rule management has been simplified and made more intuitive in this release. You can now write most of the rules by simply clicking and selecting elements on the Rule Builder, which now serves as the central dashboard for defining and editing all rules, irrespective of whether they are out-of-the-box rules or new rules.

The main changes in this release are:

• The differentiation between out-of-the-box rules and new rules has been deprecated. As a result, you can now configure all rules using a single page.
• The Scoring Configuration page has been deprecated. You can configure the scores for the rules by using the Rules and Scoring Management page.
• You can build your own rules using the Rule Builder and add them to a Ruleset. Several new rules can be written using GeoLocation information available in the Rule Builder. Refer to the CA RiskMinder Administration Guide for a list of custom tags that can be used to write a rule.
• The approach to model configuration has now changed.
  • You can configure the URL and connection parameters for the model under the Services and Server Configurations tab.
  • By default, the model is disabled for execution for each organization. The model is an optional custom module. Only Global Administrators (not Organization Administrators) can enable the model for an organization.
  • If the model is enabled for any organization, it will use the configuration done at the global level for evaluating the model score. Rule writers will be able to use the element called "MODEL_SCORE" in the Rule Builder to write a rule based on Model Score.

Other changes include:

• The Rule Builder page now displays a list of all currently configured rules. There is separation of the "Read-only" view and "Edit" mode for each rule.
• To define a new rule, you must first specify Channel, Action, and the Element(s) that the rule will depend on. Only then, you can proceed further.
• The Enable or Disable Execution option is has been removed. The Rule Builder automatically decides if a rule needs to be executed or not. As a rule writer, you only need to specify whether a rule is enabled for scoring or not.
• Changing the scoring priority is now intuitive.
• You can now create multiple instances of all of the out-of-the-box rules, except Exception User Check rule.
• Since the Rule Builder needs the Transaction element to start building a rule, it is very important that the channel be defined carefully. Channel definition is usually a one-time activity in a given deployment.

  Contact CA Support to define your custom channels.

Note: From this release, all reports will display all rule results in one column. This was not the case in the previous releases, where the out-of-the-box rule results were displayed in individual columns, but all Add-On rule results were displayed in one single column as name-value pairs, separated by semicolons (;).