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GFI LANguard Portable Storage Control
Network-wide control of portable storage devices
The need to control entry and exit of data via USB sticks and other
devices
You have invested in network anti-virus software, firewalls, email and web content security. Yet any user can come into the office, plug in a USB stick the size of the average keychain and take in/out 1GB of data. This poses a tremendous threat: Users can take confidential data or they can introduce viruses, Trojans, illegal software and more – actions that can affect your network and company severely. Yet, as an administrator you have no way to control this! Group policy offers no control.
Technology analyst Gartner warns that portable devices containing a USB or FireWire connection are a serious new threat to businesses. In a July 2004 report, Gartner named removable media devices as a significant security risk in the workplace and advised that these can be used both to download confidential data, and also to introduce a virus into the company network. Gartner’s report listed pocket-sized hard drives that connect using FireWire or USB hard drive or keychain drive, disk-based MP3 players such as the iPod, and digital cameras with smart media cards, memory sticks, compact flash and other memory media as potential security threats.
Regain control with GFI LANguard Portable Storage Control (P.S.C.)
GFI LANguard Portable Storage Control (P.S.C.) offers you network-wide control of which users can:
- Plug in a USB stick
- Connect a smartphone, MP3 player, handheld
- Download/upload data to a digital camera
- Access CDs
- Access floppies
GFI LANguard P.S.C. allows you to define which users can use removable media centrally from Active Directory - simply by making them a member of three pre-defined groups.
Features
- Controls access to all types of USB sticks, SD cards (digital cameras)
and more
- Controls access to CDs and floppies
- Easily configure users who can have access via Active Directory
- Includes remote deployment tool
- Centralized control facilitates temporary access
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