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McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention
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Enterprises face dire consequences due to user behavior at endpoints, which puts sensitive data at risk. McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention monitors and prevents risky user behavior that can lead to a sensitive data breach. This protection works across networks, through applications, and via removable storage devices. You’re in control whether users are at work, at home, or on the move.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Enjoy unrivaled protection
Prevent accidental disclosure and malicious theft of sensitive data by insiders and hackers alike to protect your business against financial loss, brand damage, and noncompliance - Restrict data transfer via any channel
Monitor and control the transfer of sensitive information to removable storage devices, via email and IM, and through other communications channels—even when data is disguised - Protect all layers of your infrastructure
Ensure your sensitive data is protected throughout your environment—across endpoints, on file servers, at the Internet gateway and within the network—regardless of operating system or device type - Automate protection with minimal effort
Secure your environment against unintentional and/or malicious user errors through automatic discovery and enforcement of sensitive data residing on local hard drives - Centralize management with ePolicy Orchestrator
Streamline management of your entire security risk management portfolio—including McAfee Host Loss Prevention—via the centralized console of ePolicy Orchestrator® 4.0
Features:
- Control internal transfer of data
Control how employees transfer data over the network, use it in applications, and copy it to removable storage devices; protect data in any format—even if it's modified, copied, pasted, compressed, printed or encrypted - Comprehensive device management
Integration with McAfee Device Control allows you to prevent data from being written to USB drives, iPods, and other removable storage devices; specify which approved devices can and can’t be used according to any Windows-based device parameters - Multi-layered protection
Use Host DLP to stop data loss from endpoints by monitoring and preventing risky user behavior with your sensitive data; when combined with McAfee Endpoint Encryption, you have a comprehensive, layered approach to preventing data loss - Advanced discovery and enforcement mechanisms
Automatically crawl local hard drives for sensitive data and monitor, store evidence, encrypt, quarantine or delete the data as configured. Encrypt-on-demand when the data is copied to removable storage or network shares and block email/webpost unless encrypted -
Centralized management
Define and manage data protection policies, deploy and update the common McAfee agent, monitor real-time events, and generate reports to meet compliance requirements—all from the centralized ePolicy Orchestrator® management console. Quickly gather all the information you need to support prompt audits and analysis, including sender, recipient, time stamp, data evidence, and more - Advanced reporting and auditing capabilities
Through integration with ePO, quickly gather all the information you need to support prompt audits and analysis, including sender, recipient, time stamp, data evidence, and more
Description:
Customers and employees count on you to keep their personal information confidential. If it were to be disclosed, either accidentally or maliciously, your company would suffer brand damage, customer distrust, regulatory fines, and other financial losses. Likewise, you need to protect your company’s intellectual property if you want to keep your competitive edge.
Think you’re not at risk? According to a survey conducted by Illuminas and McAfee, 55 percent of respondents stated they use portable storage devices to take confidential data out of the workplace every week. Another 22 percent said they lend portable devices containing work documents on to colleagues.* That’s a lot of opportunities for sensitive data to be lost or stolen.
McAfee offers a proven solution to protect your company from the risks of data loss from both insiders and external threats. McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention (Host DLP) is a key component of McAfee Total Protection for Data—our approach to security risk management that lets you monitor and control your critical information. This comprehensive solution stops data loss across networks, through applications, and via removable storage devices, even when the data has been modified from its original form.
Host DLP prevents data loss by providing comprehensive monitoring, auditing, and control over user behavior across all endpoints. Host-based protection secures data regardless of where users or information go, or whether or not client machines are connected to the corporate network.
Integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® 4.0 enables you to streamline security risk management tasks from a centralized console. Advanced Web-based management and reporting and auditing capabilities let you define and manage policies that control how employees use and transfer sensitive data. You can also monitor real-time events and generate reports to prove internal and regulatory compliance to auditors, senior management, and other stakeholders.
* Threats Within Volume II: Data Loss Disaster. Illuminas and McAfee. February 2, 2007.
System Requirements:
Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
ePO Server
Operating systems
- Microsoft Server 2003 SP1, 2003 R2
Hardware requirements
- Disk space: 250 MB minimum
- RAM: 512 MB minimum; 1 GB recommended
- CPU: Intel Pentium II-class or higher, 450 MHz minimum
Desktop and laptop endpoints
Operating systems
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1 or higher
- Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or higher
Hardware requirements
- CPU: Pentium III 1 GHz or better
- RAM: 512 MB recommended
- Disk space: 200 MB minimum
- Network connection: TCP/IP for remote access
