Enforce Security Policies for Removable Devices, Media and Data

Data leakage caused by the accidental or sometimes malicious use of removable devices and/or removable media has reached alarming levels. In fact, over 85% of privacy and security professionals reported at least one breach and almost 64% reported multiple breaches that required notification.1

Organization-wide Device Management

To enhance productivity, organizations need to provide employees and partners access to data. With more employees working remotely, access is required from outside the network. But the potential impact of data loss, be it accidental or malicious, is a very real concern. And today, removable media / devices are the most common data leakage routes — no file copy limits, no encryption, no audit trails and no central management.

The information contained in customer data, corporate data and intellectual property is worth billions to some. And the costs for recovery of data and lost business are rapidly rising as well: the total average cost of a data breach incident is estimated to be $6.3 million or $197 per compromised record, with the cost of lost
business averaging $4.1 million or $128 per record.2

Lumension Device Control provides:

• Enforcement of removable device and data usage policies
• Central management of devices and data using a whitelist / “default deny” approach
• Enablement of productivity-enhancing tools while limiting the potential for data leakage and its impact

Key Features

• Data Copy Restriction
• File Type Filtering
• Whitelist / “Default Deny”
• Temporary / Scheduled Access
• Context-Sensitive Permissions
• Role Based Access Control
• Policy Enforced Encryption for
• Removable Storage
• Centralized Management /
• Administrators’ Roles
• Tamper-proof Agent
• Flexible / Scalable Architecture

Key Benefits

• Protects Data from
• Loss / Theft
• Enables Secure Use of
• Productivity Tools
• Enhances Security Policy
• Enforcement
• Delivers Precise Control
• with Access Limits

“One of the main benefits in deploying Lumension Device Control is its whitelist feature, which ensures that o device, unless authorized, can ever be used, no matter how it gets plugged in. Flash memory USB devices represent a significant risk with the potential to steal company data or introduce “malware”, which could render the computer unusable and quickly infect other PCs on the same network. Device Control is really strong, easy to use product which is why Barclays chose this solution.”
Paul Douglas, ADIR Desktop Build Team Manager, Barclays

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1. Deloitte & Touche and Ponemon Institute, Enterprise@Risk: 2007 Privacy & Data Protection Survey, December 2007
2. Ponemon Institute, 2007 Cost of Data Breach Study, November 2007