DeviceLock

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 recognises 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. Recognising 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 unauthorised 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 authorise 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 authorise 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 authorised users are able to access the contents of the DVD, BlueRay 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 synchronisations 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 downsises 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 synchronise 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.

Network-Awareness

Administrators can define different online vs. offline security policies for the same user account. A reasonable and often necessary setting on a mobile user¿s laptop, for example, is to disable WiFi when docked to the corporate network and enable it when undocked.

Removable Media Encryption Integration

DeviceLock takes an open integration approach to encryption of data uploaded to removable media. Customers have the option of using the encryption solution that best fits their security scenarios among best-of-breed technologies that include: Windows BitLocker To Go, PGP Whole Disk Encryption for standard FIPS-certified encryption; TrueCrypt for free Open Source encryption; SafeDisk, SecurStar DriveCrypt Plus Pack Enterprise (DCPPE) software; and Lexar Media¿s S1100/S3000 series USB flash drives for pre-encrypted removable media. In addition, any pre-encrypted USB media can be selectively whitelisted with usage strictly enforced. DeviceLock allows for discrete access rules for both encrypted and unencrypted partitions of such media.

Search Server

DeviceLock Search Server provides full-text searching of logged data stored on DeviceLock Enterprise Server. You can use full-text searches to find data that you cannot find by filtering data in the log viewers. The full-text search functionality is especially useful in situations when you need to search for shadow copies of documents based on their contents. DeviceLock Search Server can automatically recognise, index, search and display documents in many formats, such as: Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Ami Pro, Archives (GZIP, RAR, ZIP), Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, OpenOffice (documents, spreadsheets and presentations), Quattro Pro, WordPerfect, WordStar and many others.