DeviceLock

DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users can access what devices (floppies, serial and parallel ports, Magneto-Optical disks, CD-ROMs, USB and FireWire drives, Bluetooth, ZIPs, etc.) on a local computer. Once DeviceLock is installed, administrators can control access to floppies, CD-ROMs, USB or any other device, depending on the time of day and day of the week. DeviceLock enhances access control for Windows System Administrators and helps control removable disk usage. It can protect network and local computers against viruses, trojans and other malicious programs often injected from removable disks. Network administrators can also use DeviceLock to flush a storage device's buffers. Remote control is also available. Keep in mind that almost 80% of all security breaches come from the inside! DeviceLock is a best solution to secure NT and protect your network computers against attack from the inside.


DeviceLock Endpoint DLP Suite - Comprehensive Features List

Devices Access Control.
Administrators can control which users or groups can access USB, FireWire, Infrared, COM and LPT ports; WiFi and Bluetooth adapters; any type of printer, including local, network and virtual printers; Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone and Palm OS-based PDAs and smartphones; as well as DVD/BD/CD-ROMs, floppy drives, and other removable and Plug-and-Play devices. It's possible to set devices in read-only mode and control access to them depending on the time of day and day of the week.

Network Communications Control.
NetworkLock's detection technology is port-independent and recognizes network applications types and protocols where data leakage can occur. NetworkLock can be configured to control web mail, social networking communications, instant messaging, file transfer operations and Telnet sessions. NetworkLock can intercept, inspect and control plain and SSL-tunneled SMTP email communications with messages and attachments controlled separately, as well as web access and other HTTP-based applications and encrypted HTTPS sessions. Messages and sessions are reconstructed with file, data and parameter information extracted and then passed to the ContentLock module for content filtering. Audit (event) logging and data shadowing trails are maintained as conditionally specified.

Content Filtering.
ContentLock supports content filtering for data objects copied to removable drives, other Plug-n-Play storage devices, and through network communications secured by the NetworkLock module on the endpoint. Recognizing more than 80 file formats and data types, ContentLock extracts and filters the content of files and other data object types including emails, instant messages, web forms, social network exchanges, etc. ContentLock filters data streams based on desired Regular Expression (RegExp) patterns, numerical conditioning and Boolean combinations of “AND/OR” criteria matching. Over 50 contextual parameters can be used. These include users, computers, groups, ports, interfaces, devices, data channels, types, data flow directions, day/time boundaries, etc.

Tamper Protection.
Configurable DeviceLock Administrators feature prevents anyone from tampering with DeviceLock settings locally, even users that have local PC system administration privileges. With this feature activated, only designated DeviceLock security administrators working from a DeviceLock console or GPO can install/uninstall the program or edit DeviceLock policies.

AD Integration.
DeviceLock’s most popular console integrates directly with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory (AD) Group Policy platform. As Group Policy and MMC-style interfaces are common knowledge for Microsoft administrators, there really is no proprietary interface to learn or appliance to buy to effectively manage endpoints centrally. The simple presence of the DeviceLock MMC console on a Group Policy administrator’s computer allows for direct integration into the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) or the Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) console with absolutely zero scripts, ADO templates, or schema changes. Security administrators can dynamically manage endpoint data leakage and auditing settings right along with other Group Policy–related tasks. In addition to the MMC snap-in console for Group Policy, DeviceLock also has traditional administrative consoles that can centrally manage any AD, LDAP, or workgroup network of Windows computers. XML-based policy templates can be shared across all DeviceLock consoles as well.

True File Type Control.
Administrators can selectively grant or deny access to over 4,000 specific file types for removable media. When a file type policy is configured, DeviceLock will look into a file’s binary content to determine its true type (regardless of file name and extension) and enforce control and shadowing actions per the applied policy. For flexibility, Content-Aware Rules for file types can be defined on a per-user or per-group basis at the device/protocol type layer. True file type rules can also apply to pre-filtering of shadow copies to reduce the volume of captured data.

Clipboard Control.
DeviceLock enables security administrators to effectively block data leaks at their very embryonic stage — when users deliberately or accidentally transfer unauthorized data between different applications and documents on their computer through clipboard mechanisms available in Windows operating systems. Copy and Paste operations can be selectively filtered for data exchanges between different applications (e.g. from Word to Excel or OpenOffice). At the context level, DeviceLock supports the ability to selectively control user access to data objects of various types copied into the clipboard including files, textual data, images, audio fragments (like recordings captured by Windows Sound Recorder), and data of unidentified types. Screenshot operations can be blocked for specific users at specific computers including Windows’ PrintScreen function, as well as screenshot operations of third-party applications.

USB White List.
Allows you to authorize a specific model of device to access the USB port, while locking out all others. You can even "White List" a single, unique device, while locking out all other devices of the same brand and model, as long as the device manufacturer has supplied a suitable unique identifier, such as a serial number.

Media White List.
Allows you to authorize access to specific DVD/BD/CD-ROM disks, uniquely identified by data signature, even when DeviceLock has otherwise blocked the DVD/BD/CD-ROM drive. A convenience when DVD/BD/CD-ROM disks are routinely used for the distribution of new software or instruction manuals, Media White Listing can also specify allowed users and groups, so that only authorized users are able to access the contents of the DVD, Blu-ray or CD-ROM.

Temporary White List.
Allows granting temporary access to a USB-connected device by the issuing of an access code, rather than through regular DeviceLock permission setting/editing procedures. Useful when permissions need to be granted and the system administrator has no network connection; for example, in the exceptional case of accommodating a sales manager who calls in with a request for USB access when working outside the company's network.

Protocols White List.
Allows you to specify whitelist-oriented policies by IP address, address range, subnet masks, network ports and their ranges including those based on “more than/less than” threshold criteria.

Auditing.
DeviceLock‘s auditing capability tracks user and file activity for specified device types, ports and network resources on a local computer. It can pre-filter audit activities by user/group, by day/hour, by port/device/protocol type, by reads/writes, and by success/failure events. DeviceLock employs the standard event logging subsystem and writes audit records to a Windows Event Viewer log with GMT timestamps. Logs can be exported to many standard file formats for import into other reporting mechanisms or products. Also, audit records can be automatically collected from remote computers and centrally stored in SQL Server. Even users with local admin privileges can't edit, delete or otherwise tamper with audit logs set to transfer to DeviceLock Enterprise Server.

Shadowing.
DeviceLock’s data shadowing function can be set up to mirror all data copied to external storage devices, printed, or transferred over the network and through serial and parallel ports. DeviceLock can also split ISO images produced by CD/DVD/BD burners into the original separated files upon auto-collection by the DeviceLock Enterprise Server (DLES). A full copy of the files can be saved into the SQL database or to a secure share managed by the DLES. Shadowing activities can be pre-filtered just like regular auditing to narrow down what is collected. DeviceLock’s audit and shadowing features are designed for efficient use of transmission and storage resources with stream compression, traffic shaping for quality of service (QoS), performance/quota settings, and automated optimal DLES server selection. ContentLock’s content filtering technology makes DeviceLock’s data shadowing feature even more efficient, scalable and intelligent. Content-based data shadowing is supported for all endpoint data channels including removable and plug-and-play storage devices, network communications, local synchronizations with supported smartphones and document printing. Incoming and/or outgoing transmissions can be conditionally shadowed. By pre-filtering the content of potentially large data objects before shadowing to the log, DeviceLock downsizes the streams to just those objects that contain information meaningful for post-analysis tasks like security compliance auditing, incident investigations, and cyber-forensics.

Mobile Device Data Leakage Prevention.
With DeviceLock, you can set granular access control, auditing, and shadowing rules for mobile devices that use Windows Mobile, iPhone OS or Palm OS. You can centrally set permissions with fine granularity, defining which types of data that specified users and/or groups are allowed to synchronize between corporate PCs and their personal mobile devices, such as files, pictures, calendars, emails, tasks and notes. DeviceLock detects the presence of mobile devices attempting to access ports through USB, COM, IrDA or Bluetooth interfaces.

Extended DeviceLock® Functions

Anti-keylogger.
DeviceLock detects USB keyloggers and blocks keyboards connected to them. Also, DeviceLock obfuscates PS/2 keyboard input and forces PS/2 keyloggers to record garbage instead of the real keystrokes.

Monitoring.
DeviceLock Enterprise Server can monitor remote computers in real-time, checking DeviceLock Service status (running or not), policy consistency and integrity. The detailed information is written to the Monitoring log. Also, it is possible to define a master policy that can be automatically applied across selected remote computers in the event that their current policies are suspected to be out-of-date or damaged.

RSoP Support.
You can use the Windows standard Resultant Set of Policy snap-in to view the DeviceLock policy currently being applied, as well as to predict what policy would be applied in a given situation.

Batch Processing.
Allows you to define settings for a class of similar computers with similar devices (e.g. all computers have USB ports and CD-ROMs) across a large network in a fast and consistent manner. DeviceLock Service can be automatically installed or updated on all the computers in a network using DeviceLock Enterprise Manager.

Graphical Reporting.
DeviceLock can automatically generate graphical reports based on audit and shadow logs.

Permissions Report.
Allows you to generate a report displaying the permissions and audit rules that have been set on all the computers across the network.

Report Plug-n-Play Devices.
Allows you to generate a report displaying the USB, FireWire and PCMCIA devices currently connected to computers in the network and those that were historically connected.

Traffic Shaping.
DeviceLock allows you to define bandwidth limits for sending audit and shadow logs from DeviceLock Service to DeviceLock Enterprise Server. This Quality of Service (QoS) feature helps reduce the network load.

Stream Compression.
You can instruct DeviceLock to compress audit logs and shadow data pulled from endpoints by DeviceLock Enterprise Server service. Doing this decreases the size of data transfers and thus reduces the network load.

Optimal Server Selection.
For optimal transfer of audit and shadow logs, DeviceLock Services can automatically choose the fastest available DeviceLock Enterprise Server from a list of available servers.