McAfee Device Control

McAfee Device Control Overview:

It’s 5 p.m. Do you know where your data is? In a McAfee-sponsored survey, more than half of respondents admitted to using portable devices to take confidential data out of their business every week. That’s frightening by anyone’s standard. McAfee Device Control helps you monitor and restrict data copied to removable storage devices and media to keep it from leaving company control.

Description:

What value do you place on your customer data or the software that your company has been developing for the past 15 years? How do you know that the new programmer in engineering isn’t downloading your company’s entire software library to the USB drive she keeps on her keychain?

Data loss is one of the most widespread and costly security problems facing companies today. In fact, more than 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have fallen victim to accidental or malicious data loss. And the costs of data breaches are staggering. In 2007, the average cost was $6.3 million.¹

McAfee Device Control protects data from leaving your company’s control and falling into the wrong hands through removable media, such as USB drives, MP3 players, CDs, and DVDs. It gives you the tools you need to monitor and control how users copy data onto these devices—regardless of whether they’re in the office, at home, or on the move.

McAfee is the only solution that has complete content- and context-aware device-blocking capabilities.

Here’s how it works:

1. Use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) to deploy Device Control to your managed endpoints
2. Again using ePO, define policies that control which content can and can’t be copied onto which removable storage devices
3. Device Control then automatically enforces those policies, monitoring usage and blocking any unauthorized attempts to use devices or transfer data in violation of your policies
4. Device Control recognizes your data as yours even when it has been modified, copied, pasted, compressed, or encrypted
5. Legitimate business activities proceed without disruption

Finally, Device Control helps you meet stringent policies for safeguarding confidential information. With the solution’s advanced reporting and auditing capabilities, you can quickly and easily demonstrate compliance to internal and external auditors, board members, and other key stakeholders.

1 Ponemon Institute’s 2007 Cost of Data Breach Study

McAfee Device Control specifies which devices can be used and what data can be copied.

Benefits and Features:

System Requirements:

Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

ePO Server

Operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1, 2003 R2

Hardware requirements:

• Disk space: 250 MB
• RAM: 512 MB minimum, 1 GB recommended
• CPU: Pentium II-class or higher, 450 MHz minimum

Device Control endpoint

Operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1 or higher
• Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or higher

Hardware requirements:

• CPU: Pentium III 1 GHz or better
• RAM: 512 MB recommended
• Disk space: 200 MB minimum
• Network connection: TCP/IP for remote access

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Device Control Datasheet (PDF).