Centennial DeviceWall™

Protect your network and sensitive data from unauthorized portable device use and data removal.

These days a great number of external and internal devices are available to average computer users, such as PDAs, iPods, USB sticks, and the like. Devices of this nature can easily be connected to your company’s computers via Firewire and USB ports, making it quite a simple process for downloading information and potentially interfering with your network and business, especially in the event that sensitive information is removed and put into the wrong person’s hands. You must protect your business from this unauthorized connection of both internal and external plug and play or storage devices, potential downloading of important, sensitive data, and from anyone having access to introduce malicious code or transfer inappropriate content.

Many organizations are not equipped with the necessary tools to secure connections and the removal of sensitive data, or believe that the only way to get a handle on this is to completely disable and lock down PC access across the organization, but realistically, this isn’t exactly practical for all of your users, particularly those more senior or critical computer users.

Enter DeviceWall, an intelligent USB and removable media security solution designed to prevent the unauthorized connection of iPods, USB sticks and other portable storage devices to your corporate PCs and laptops. DeviceWall allows for the selective management of access to and from particular devices based upon a user's (or group of users) specific needs and privileges, ensuring that connections are left open for legitimate devices not capable of storing data, such as mice, keyboards and printers. By determining your permissible use policy and controlling access, you protect your company from accidental or malicious misuse and substantially reduce your security risk.

DeviceWall provides the following key features and benefits:

• Manage connections and protect your data. Manage the connections that can be used to transfer data to and from a computer, specifically USB ports, Firewire ports, internal and external floppy drives, plus internal and external CD and DVD drives.

• Manage a wide range of devices. Actively manage a wide range of devices such as: PDAs (for example, BlackBerry or Palm OS devices), plug and play storage devices (for example, iPods and other media players, cameras, and USB sticks) or other external storage devices (including CD writers, Zip drives and external hard drives), as well as optical (CD and DVD) drives. By creating classes for devices, you can easily set a policy for each individual class type.

• Define security based on user level. IT system administrators can easily and effectively define security and enforce policies for users and groups selected from ActiveDirectory, enabling users with the appropriate permissions to access only the device types they need, rather than forcing the complete lock down of your entire network.

• Track changes with a permanent audit trail. Keep a permanent audit trail to track changes in policy, such as during updated policy deployments, changes in privileges, as well as whenever temporary access rights to certain device types are granted.

• Permit temporary device access. Provide offsite users without access to your network temporary access to certain blocked device types.

• Windows OS support. DeviceWall supports current Windows operating systems, specifically Windows NT4, 2000, XP, and 2003.

If you have questions about DeviceWall, contact an Apropos consultant.