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 | | Home > Solutions > Mobile Data Protection | | File Encryption Software: Mobile Data Protection | Mobile users have become a standard part of daily business operations at most large companies and have grown to include; global or remote sales people, telecommuters, independent distributors and country hopping executives. Mobile users must be able to reach and utilize the sensitive data required to complete their jobs. IT managers are tasked with making the mobile user experience no different than if they were inside and connected to the network, and just as secure.
The problem for IT Security Managers is that the security technologies of network content filtering and monitoring have been unable to address the challenges presented by the growing number of mobile workers. Other security investments that have been made in a variety of technologies that protect the company network can not, in most cases, offer protection to users off the network. Because of this, mobile users are quickly becoming the weakest link in most defense strategies.
With deficient mobile security technology and the lack of understanding or disregard of company security policies, mobile users regularly put sensitive data at risk, and are often totally unaware of that risk, both to data and to the network. Risky activities include:
- Accessing the Internet through wireless hot spots and sending sensitive data in the clear
- Copying unencrypted sensitive data to a USB memory stick that can be easily lost or stolen
- Having a laptop stolen with no idea what data was on the laptop and knowing none of the data was encrypted
- Downloading freeware, shareware and personal software programs such as an MP3 player, to a company laptop while off the network and later infecting the network with spy-ware
- Sending sensitive documents from your company e-mail to your personal e-mail unencrypted and unsecured
- Changing or turning off company security settings when on the road
The Verdasys Difference
Digital Guardian’s proven “point of use” architecture makes it an extremely effective mobile security solution. Digital Guardian monitors and controls user activities on the laptop and is not affected by “off-network” usage. Security polices can be enforced no matter where the user is operating, including warning prompts and blocking for activities such as copying, printing, attaching to email and screen capturing sensitive data. When you add Digital Guardian's email and file encryption to the visibility and control offered offline, you have a complete mobile user solution. Digital Guardian enables security managers to define central data and application security policies for mobile users and have those policies automatically and uniformly enforced across all mobile workers protected by Digital Guardian Agents.
Unique Capabilities - Apply data security policies uniformly across all users on and offline and collect all data related activities eliminating the “mobile user weak security link”
- Analyze information that defines sensitive data and determines policy enforcement level, including content, context, data classification and user identity on and offline
- Automatically enforce policy based email encryption for sensitive information sent over network or web based email eliminating the risk of data compromise
- Automatically enforce policy based file encryption for all sensitive files on local drives, attached to email or copied to a USB or other storage device protecting sensitive data from being stolen or compromised.
- Understand all local names and context of local files on any laptop or device from auditable records so if a laptop or device is lost, its contents can be quickly evaluated
- Enforce policy based controls that manage application execution offline; blocking the executables of unknown software while enforcing the use of A/V solutions and of VPN access utilization reducing the likelihood of infection by malware or spyware.
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