Control entry and exit of data via USB sticks, iPods, PDAs and other devices through endpoint security.
You have invested in network anti-virus software, firewalls, email and web content security to protect against external threats. Yet any user can come into the office, plug in a USB stick the size of the average keychain and take in/out over 32 GB of data. This poses a tremendous threat: Users can take confidential data or they can unknowingly 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.
According to a 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey, 44% of organizations have reported network intrusions from within their own organizations. Technology analyst Gartner warns that portable devices containing a USB or FireWire connection are a serious new threat to businesses.
In their 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.
GFI EndPointSecurity allows administrators to actively manage user access and log the activity of:
- Media players, including iPod, Creative Zen and others
- USB sticks, CompactFlash, memory cards, CDs, floppies & other storage devices
- PDAs, BlackBerry handhelds, mobile phone and similar communication devices
- Network cards, laptops and other network connections.
GFI EndPointSecurity ReportPack add-on
The ReportPack is a full-fledged reporting add-on to GFI EndPointSecurity which can be scheduled to automatically report on such items as devices connected to the network, device usage trends per user, files copied to and from devices (including actual names of files copied!) and much more.
