Lumension Application Control

The battle to protect your network from malware is a costly, ongoing struggle taking up valuable IT resources and time. When a new malware threat appears, you have to stop what you're doing and update your antivirus signatures immediately to protect your data, taking valuable time away from daily activities.

The threats aren't going to stop and antivirus software alone cannot control the problem as malware threats are being developed faster than the necessary fixes. Malware has grown over 500% with more than 5.49 million unique samples of malicious software reported within the past year and targeted attacks, which are designed to specifically bypass antivirus solutions, continue to increase.

Organizations need a product that prevents the execution of malicious code, instead of one that requires time-consuming and reactive antivirus signature updates.

Protect your organization against malware attacks before they occur by proactively controlling the applications executing on your desktops, laptops, servers, kiosks and POS systems with Lumension Application Control, a primary component of Lumension Endpoint Protection solution.

Centrally manage, monitor, and control applications with a whitelist approach that allows only authorized applications to run ensuring no malware, spyware, keyloggers, Trojans, worms, viruses, zero-day threats and unwanted or unlicensed software will execute on your network and disrupt your business.

Lumension Application Control provides complete malware protection and increases IT and end-user productivity by preventing unwanted applications from causing configuration issues and consuming network bandwidth.

You'll be audit-ready with a detailed audit trail of all application and device execution attempts along with proof that software licenses are in compliance. With no viral attacks to thwart, malware to hunt down, or incompatible applications to invoke the blue screen of death, you can spend more time on other projects instead of constantly fixing computers.

How Lumension Application Control Works

1. Discover - Survey your entire network to collect information on all devices that are now or have ever been connected to your endpoints, all without disrupting business until you have developed your comprehensive data protection policy.

2. Assess - Use a "whitelisting" approach to define what is allowed instead of trying to keep up with the ever changing list of what is bad; for instance, control all "plug and play" devices by class, group, model and/or unique device ID.

3. Implement - After getting buy-in from all constituents, roll out your new data protection policy enforcement tool; for instance, impose file copy limitations, file type filtering and forced encryption policies for data moved onto removable devices.

4. Monitor - Monitor the effectiveness of device and data management policies in real time, and adapt as business needs dictate; for instance, examine all policy changes, administrator activities and file transfers to ensure continuous policy enforcement.

5. Report - Generate a complete audit trail that documents how your device and data management policies prevent unauthorized users and devices from compromising critical business information.