Enterprise Access Control for PC Peripheral Ports and Devices
GuardianEdge Device Control gives enterprises policy-based control of user access to the ports on PCs and the devices connected to them. By providing the ability to set granular device access control policies, it allows administrators to give PC users access to the external devices required to perform their work, while preventing leakage of sensitive business data and electronic personal information via unauthorized mobile devices, removable data storage media, and wireless pathways.
By deploying GuardianEdge Device Control, organizations can:
- Prevent the unauthorized transfer of data from corporate PCs by restricting
user access to external devices
- Align device access policies with the organization's business processes and
the roles of users
- Protect trade secrets, intellectual property, and the private information of
customers and employees
- Centrally manage and monitor port and device access control as an integrated
component of an enterprise-grade data protection platform
property, and sensitive customer and
employee information
Key Benefits
- Reduces the cost of meeting regulatory compliance requirements for data
security and privacy by leveraging existing IT infrastructure
- Eliminates the legal liability, customer service costs and other
ramifications of data breach disclosures
- Improves the ability to achieve regulatory compliance requirements for data
security
- Uses white lists to grant access to pre-defined devices and device models,
by class, type, or serial numbers
- Prevents use of any device not on the approved list
Key Features
Protection for all ports and access methods
- Protects the following input/output options: USB, FireWire, serial,
parallel, infrared, CD/DVD, floppy disk, tape, WiFi, Bluetooth
Alignment of device rules with business processes
- Allows establishing either broad access control policies (such as allowing
or denying all access), or targeted access control policies (such as allowing
restricted read-only access to specified devices at an allowed time)
Visibility to port and device activity
- Enables tracking of data movement by monitoring success or failure events,
date and time, device type, file name, and file operation
- Generates reports that audit permissions
- Generates reports displaying devices currently connected to computers as
well as those that had been connected
Simplified management and
reduced IT support costs
- Uses Group Policies to merge hardware lock-out tasks into overall system
management workload
- Automatically installs or updates on all computers in a fast and consistent
manner
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