With an increasing popularity of portable storage devices, theft of proprietary data is becoming a growing security challenge in today’s computing environments. Portable devices also provide an easy entryway for infecting systems with viruses, spyware, Trojans and other damaging malware, thus compromising an organization’s network.

Benefits:

- Totally block access to any portable devices such as USBs, CDs, DVDs, iPods, MP3 players, WiFi, FireWire, Bluetooth etc., thus reducing any incidences of confidential data leakage or virus infections of the network.

- Through the Allowed List, permit use of only company authorized USBs, FireWire and External Hard Drive devices.

-Assign security levels of full access, read mode or no access.

-Allow use of specific portable devices at allocated day/time slots, through the Scheduler.

-Control which Groups or PCs, have permissions to access the endpoint devices.

-Prevent unauthorized administrative users from stopping or uninstalling the AccessPatrol client service.

-The web based console of AccessPatrol gives authorized administrators, the flexibility of managing endpoint device control from any location.

-AccessPatrol policies apply to both on site and offsite systems. Even when laptops are not connected to the central network, access permissions to endpoint devices are still maintained.

-Administrators can govern the energy usage of all desktops and PCs across the enterprise remotely through the Power Management feature.

-Schedule the shutdown of workstations and laptops during off hours, resulting in noticeable savings in energy costs. Similarly schedule the WOL of systems at the start of work times.

-Schedule the shutdown of workstations and laptops during off hours, resulting in noticeable savings in energy costs. Similarly schedule the WOL of systems at the start of work times.

Platform: Windows XP

System Requirements: 256MB