SafeGuard Plug & Play

The manageable security solution for controlling Plug & Play devices within your IT Infrastructure

Plug & Play devices such as memory sticks or external hard drives are convenient, simple to use tools that often improve the productivity of your staff and have an important role to play in your business. At the same time, it is difficult for an organisation to monitor what devices have been connected and to what use they are being put. All of these Plug & Play devices carry with them an inherent risk that data can be loaded easily onto the devices and can, from there, be lost or stolen.

Consider the effects of the following on your organisation:

• Release of key customer information
• Exposure of financial information, research projects or product launch plans
• Company downtime due to staff downloading MP3 tunes
• How worms or viruses can bypass perimeter firewalls
• The smaller the device, the easier it can be lost or stolen

Rather than preventing your staff from using Plug & Play devices and losing out on the benefits, there is a way to prevent misuse.

By using SafeGuard Plug & Play it is possible to prevent unapproved devices from being used, thereby preventing data and applications from being imported undetected into the IT infrastructure, or being exported from it.

A range of features allow administrators to implement security policies centrally and refuse access to specific Plug & Play devices or entire device classes, and control the data types that may be transferred to approved Plug & Play devices. All this can be administered centrally, by individual user or by group.