Identified - On May 19, Wiz made a change to its API that impacted Expel’s ability to sync alert statuses from Workbench back to Wiz. As a result, we have temporarily disabled the status syncing feature while we work on a fix.

Importantly, this issue does not affect Expel’s ability to deliver MDR services for Wiz. Workbench continues to ingest alerts from Wiz as expected, and our SOC is actively monitoring and responding to those alerts.

We’re actively collaborating with Wiz to update the integration and restore status syncing functionality. While we don’t have a specific timeline to share yet, we’ll provide an update as soon as the fix is deployed and syncing is re-enabled.

Thank you for your understanding.

Jun 11, 2025 - 13:13 EDT
Identified - Microsoft is rolling out deprecation of legacy Exchange tokens that may prevent your users from being able to report emails using the Expel custom Office 365 Phishing button.

Expel is working on development and testing of an updated Expel O365/M365 Phishing button for web and desktop applications that will work with the NAA authentication scheme.

Until Expel is able to deploy the newly developed Phishing button, you should follow the instructions from Microsoft (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/outlook/turn-exchange-tokens-on-off) to enable legacy tokens for your tenant. It can take up to 24 hours for this change to take effect.

Contact support if you need assistance with this process.

Mar 17, 2025 - 10:03 EDT
Monitoring - As part of a previously communicated Microsoft deprecation, Expel is no longer ingesting Microsoft Defender for Identity alerts (via the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps integration). Any customers who have onboarded a Microsoft Defender XDR device have coverage and alerts are being processed.

We recommend that customers who have the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps integration, but have not yet onboarded Microsoft XDR to Workbench, complete the onboarding as soon as possible (https://support.expel.io/hc/en-us/articles/38928860545299-Microsoft-Defender-XDR-Setup-for-Workbench).

Please contact your Customer Success Manager if you need assistance with onboarding or if you have additional questions.

Apr 28, 2025 - 10:34 EDT
Workbench availability Operational
Workbench global network connectivity Operational
Workbench login Operational
Workbench features Operational
Investigative actions Operational
File uploads Operational
Notifications Operational
Email Operational
Slack Operational
Teams Operational
Ticketing systems (via email, such as Jira) Operational
PagerDuty Operational
Opsgenie Operational
ServiceNow Operational
Assembler connectivity Operational
Alert ingestion Operational
Slack channels for customers Operational
Phishing submissions Operational
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Scheduled Maintenance

Scheduled Infrastructure Maintenance Jun 16, 2025 10:00-11:00 EDT

We will be undergoing routine maintenance between 10:00 - 11:00am ET on June 16th.

All notifications and alerts will be processed during the maintenance window, but may be affected by intermittent delays.

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Jun 12, 2025
Resolved - Expel has completed processing the backlog of alerts caused by the Google Cloud interruption today. Expel Workbench and alert ingestion are operating normally.
Jun 12, 17:49 EDT
Update - Google reports that its engineers have identified the root cause of the Google Cloud outage and have applied appropriate mitigations.

Expel Workbench remains online and is ingesting alerts, and our analysts are processing the backlog.

Expel continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide an update when we’ve completed processing the backlog.

Jun 12, 15:57 EDT
Update - Google reports that its engineers are continuing to mitigate the issue and confirmed that Google Cloud is recovered in some locations.

Expel Workbench is back online and ingesting alerts. Expel is reviewing and processing the backlog of alerts.

Expel continues to monitor the situation closely as we work through this backlog, and will provide an update by 4pm ET.

Jun 12, 15:42 EDT
Update - Google reported that Google Cloud experienced an outage affecting Expel Workbench connectivity, including alert ingestion, which Expel observed starting at approximately 1:50pm ET. Google Cloud is showing signs of partial recovery, although some Expel services including Workbench are still not fully operational.

Expel is monitoring this situation closely and taking action to expedite full recovery of Workbench. Expel will provide an up an update by 3:30pm ET.

Jun 12, 15:11 EDT
Monitoring - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is experiencing an outage which is affecting Expel Workbench connectivity, including alert ingestion. Expel is monitoring the situation and will provide an update by 3pm ET.
Jun 12, 14:38 EDT
Investigating - At approximately 1:50pm ET, we began experiencing a problem with network connectivity to the Workbench platform that is affecting alert ingestion and the Workbench web interface. We will provide an update by 2:30pm ET.
Jun 12, 14:13 EDT
Jun 11, 2025
Jun 10, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 9, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 8, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 7, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 6, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 5, 2025
Resolved - We have restored the correct "updated at" metadata for these records. No further unintentional notifications should be triggered.
Jun 5, 22:39 EDT
Monitoring - We have corrected the incorrect "updated at" metadata for investigation records and we are currently monitoring system activity.
Jun 5, 22:12 EDT
Identified - At approximately 11:20 am Eastern Time "updated at" metadata for Investigation records were incorrectly altered to a more recent time. This has triggered unintentional notifications to organizations.

We are currently working to restore the correct "updated at" metadata for these records

Jun 5, 21:22 EDT
Jun 4, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 3, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 2, 2025

No incidents reported.

Jun 1, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 31, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 30, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 29, 2025

No incidents reported.