As organizations turn out to be more interconnected than before, external devices and removable media are common tools used to complete daily business operations. While these devices make it easier for employees to finish their work in association with other employees, they additionally represent a danger to big business information, data protection and fill in as a potential opening point for malware.
When accessing the removable device, sensitive information is moved away from the organization’s control and security. Vindictive insiders regularly utilize USB devices to rapidly take information or compromise the systems, frequently while the organization is unaware of the same, so data protection becomes crucial for the organizations. Therefore, Device control is an important function to prevent data theft in enterprises or even for home users.
eScan’s Endpoint Protection helps in monitoring and securing critical data to prevent any kind of data leak or data theft from managed endpoints in the network. It allows the administrator to whitelist or blacklist USB and other storage devices allow or block access to devices such as webcams, CD-ROMs, Composite devices, Bluetooth devices, SD Cards or Imaging devices.
Authorized access to such devices can be provided using One Time Password without violating policy deployed to the group. A sub-feature under device control enables to send notifications to the administrator when any data (which is not read-only) on the client system’s hard disk is copied to the USB.
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