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McAfee Device Control
McAfee System Protection
Regulate the use of removable media on your network
It’s 5 p.m. Do you know where your data is? In a McAfee-sponsored survey, more than half of respondents admitted to using portable devices to take confidential data out of their business every week. That’s frightening by anyone’s standard. McAfee Device Control helps you monitor and restrict data copied to removable storage devices and media to keep it from leaving company control.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Protect your business from the risks of data loss
Avoid the disaster that a data loss could spell: brand damage, customer distrust, noncompliance penalties, competitive disadvantage, financial losses, and more - Gain visibility and control over your data
Monitor and regulate how your employees transfer data to removable media such as USB drives, MP3 players, CDs, DVDs, and Bluetooth devices—even when users are not connected to the corporate network - Maintain operational productivity
Specify detailed hardware- and content-based filtering, monitoring, and blocking of confidential data on any removable storage device; ensure that employees continue to safely use allowed devices as part of their daily work activities - Centralize management with ePolicy Orchestrator
From a single, centralized console, implement and enforce security polices that prevent confidential data from leaving the company's control and being lost or stolen; reduce management effort, time, and training - Prove compliance with less effort
Monitor real-time events and generate detailed reports to demonstrate compliance with internal and regulatory privacy requirements to auditors, board members, and other stakeholders
Features:
- Comprehensive device and data management
Regulate how users copy data to USB drives, iPods, recordable CDs and DVDs, Bluetooth and infrared devices, imaging equipment, COM and LPT ports, and more; block any copy attempts that violate your policies; protect all data formats, even when modified - Granular controls
Specify which devices can and can't be used by any Windows device parameter, including product ID, vendor ID, serial number, device class, and device name; for devices that can be used, specify what content can and can't be copied onto those devices - Centralized management
Centrally define, deploy, manage, and update security policies and agents throughout your environment; set device and data policies by user, group, or department - Advanced reporting and auditing capabilities
Support compliance with detailed user- and device-level logging; gather details such as device, time stamp, and data evidence for prompt and proper audits
Description:
What value do you place on your customer data or the software that your company has been developing for the past 15 years? How do you know that the new programmer in engineering isn’t downloading your company’s entire software library to the USB drive she keeps on her keychain?
Data loss is one of the most widespread and costly security problems facing companies today. In fact, more than 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have fallen victim to accidental or malicious data loss. And the costs of data breaches are staggering. In 2007, the average cost was $6.3 million.1
McAfee Device Control protects data from leaving your company’s control and falling into the wrong hands through removable media, such as USB drives, MP3 players, CDs, and DVDs. It gives you the tools you need to monitor and control how users copy data onto these devices—regardless of whether they’re in the office, at home, or on the move.
McAfee is the only solution that has complete content- and context-aware device-blocking capabilities.
Here’s how it works:
- Use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) to deploy Device Control to your managed endpoints
- Again using ePO, define policies that control which content can and can’t be copied onto which removable storage devices
- Device Control then automatically enforces those policies, monitoring usage and blocking any unauthorized attempts to use devices or transfer data in violation of your policies
- Device Control recognizes your data as yours even when it has been modified, copied, pasted, compressed, or encrypted
- Legitimate business activities proceed without disruption
Finally, Device Control helps you meet stringent policies for safeguarding confidential information. With the solution’s advanced reporting and auditing capabilities, you can quickly and easily demonstrate compliance to internal and external auditors, board members, and other key stakeholders.
1 Ponemon Institute’s 2007 Cost of Data Breach Study
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 Windows Server 2003 SP1, 2003 R2
Hardware requirements
- Disk space: 250 MB
- RAM: 512 MB minimum, 1 GB recommended
- CPU: Pentium II-class or higher, 450 MHz minimum
Device Control endpoint
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
