There is a difficult balancing act between protecting your network from threats and providing your users with the flexibility to download or upload the information they need to portable devices, like USB drives. The proliferation of devices, from memory sticks to music players, PDAs, CD/DVD burner drives and more, only increases the potential for compromising the security of sensitive data.

Monitoring network endpoints and controlling which devices can be plugged into the network can significantly increase security, while preserving the flexibility your business needs, and preventing data leaks.

For the most comprehensive protection against USB–mounted removable devices, LAN2LAN recommends Lumension Security Device Control and Application Control software.

Combine this with PGP Whole Disk Encryption and you can easily establish and continuously enforce encryption security policies for device usage, including protection for data transferred or stored on portable devices.

You can maximise endpoint security with a solution that:

• Enforces policies that do not allow known and unknown threats to execute
• Provides a detailed audit trail of all device and application execution attempts
• Has comprehensive auditing capabilities, which Identify security holes
• Safeguards against network security breaches where confidential data could be exposed to fraud
• Disables suspicious executables that are locally authorised on too many computers