DataCop

Overview

In today's data driven environment, nothing is more important than the information your company owns. Your staff are bringing mass storage devices into the office every day. However innocent their MP3 player may appear it has the ability to transport vast quantities of sensitive company data out of the office and into the hands of your competitors.

Scenario: One of your organization's key traders has just been offered a lucrative position in an opposition company. Detailed information of your trading methods and client portfolios will make him very welcome at the other company. It's lunch time and the trader goes to the local computer superstore and buys a USB memory device. Back at his desk, he plugs his new USB memory device into his PC. Windows recognises the device and makes it available as another drive on the system. As he tries to start copying the USB drive has disappeared and he is presented with:

DataCop monitored the memory device being plugged in, compared the user and device type against the rules that you had created and disabled the device. It also alerted the you that this had happened along with:

• Date and time it happened
• Which port it was plugged in (if relevant)
• Exact device type including manufacturer (if supported)
• User name
• Machine name
• IP address

Most importantly, your data remained safe!

The above may appear to be a little on the dramatic side, but it is happening all the time, possibly not quite as maliciously. Data theft is becoming easier than ever before. The proliferation of pocket sized mass storage devices is now making it possible to carry huge amounts of sensitive information undetected. The most popular devices are USB 'memory sticks' or 'dongles', up to 1GB can be purchased for under $100.

As with many facets of the evolution of IT, Corporate policies have yet to catch up with this latest issue, and this has led to a serious security threat to the core of the business. DataCop is a focused product that manages local storage devices. Typically, these are any device that a drive letter can be associated with. With DataCop, an IT group can quickly and efficiently contain this issue by turning off users' ability to use removable storage devices. Then, on a per user and device basis, they can give permission.

Some rule examples:

1. Fred can use any SD card in his machine
2. Joanna can only use a specific Kingston DataTraveler Elite USB drive in her machine
3. Everybody else may not use any removable devices at all
4. By default, floppy and CD drives are disabled too.

An audit function reports back on all devices that have ever been connected into all PCs so that specific devices can be enabled or disabled, even of the device driver did not install correctly.

For less than the price of a mouse* you can now protect one of your organisation's most valuable assets, it's information with DataCop.

* Reputable brand, and it must glow underneath!