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McAfee Port Control (formerly SafeBoot Port Control)
McAfee System Protection
Govern the use of removable devices connected to your PCs
Protecting your data assets is tougher than ever. Today, a wide range and enormous quantity of USB thumb drives, Bluetooth devices, and other media can connect to your endpoints. If keeping confidential data secure is keeping you up at night, rest easier with McAfee Port Control. It provides strong access control, so that only authorized individuals can connect only approved devices to endpoints.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Better protect your business from the risks of data loss
Do all you can to avoid the disaster that a data loss could spell: brand damage, customer distrust, noncompliance penalties, competitive disadvantage, financial losses, and more
- Enable strong access control for your endpoints
Prevent unauthorized access and use of removable devices-even when endpoints are not connected to the corporate network; identify and control all port device classes and types, right down to individual device exceptions - Centralize management efforts
Gain centralized management capabilities to reduce IT efforts, training, and total cost of ownership for your installed base of endpoints - Support compliance with less effort
Use extensive auditing and reporting capabilities to support compliance with regulatory data-security mandates
Features:
- Strong access control for desktops, laptops, and tablets
Set up security policies that control how employees copy data to USB drives, recordable CDs and DVDs, Bluetooth and infrared devices, imaging equipment, COM and LPT ports, and more; block devices, make them read-only, or encrypt them for read/write - Precise control over removable media
Gain full control over devices that can connect to your endpoints; enable or disable an entire class of devices, or allow some while blocking others through individual device exceptions - Centralized management
Take advantage of central deployment, policy management, remote upgrades, a scripting tool, audit facilities, and policy synchronization; synchronize Port Control security policies with Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, PKI, and others - Integrated approach to security
Integrate Port Control with other McAfee solutions, such as McAfee Endpoint Encryption (formerly SafeBoot® Encryption), to provide end-to-end data and device security and single sign-on capability
Description:
As long as PCs have been in use, they have featured wired ports to connect them to peripherals and networks among other things. In recent years, wireless connectivity has become increasingly popular as well. And while these wired and wireless ports are obviously useful, they also pose a potential security threat to your customer information and proprietary data. Any number of unapproved devices could be attached to your endpoint ports and used to siphon off your confidential information. Only authorized individuals may connect approved devices to PC ports, including memory sticks, removable disks, and more.
Through a centralized management console, you establish security policies that control how users copy information to removable devices and media. You can even synchronize these security policies with existing solutions, such as Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, PKI and others. These security policies then run transparently to keep users productive. The only time users would even become aware of Port Control would be if they attempted to use an unauthorized storage device in violation of your established policies.
This solution’s centralized management gives you precise control over all devices, regardless of how they are attached to your endpoints. You have the options of enabling or disabling an entire class of devices through standard policies, or allowing some while disallowing others through policies with exceptions:
- Standard policy: No removable drives allowed
- Policy with exception: No removable drives allowed except Manufacturer A’s USB memory stick
Finally, Port Control integrates with McAfee Endpoint Encryption (formerly SafeBoot® Encryption) and other technologies to provide end-to-end data and device security within your environment.
System Requirements:
Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
Centralized management
Operating systems
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows NT4.0 SP6A
- Also supports Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME in Application mode only—not recommended
Windows 95 and 98 are limited to approximately 12 simultaneous connections; Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server are soft-limited to 200 connections, but may be increased to up to 1000
Hardware requirements
- CPU: Pentium-compatible processor
- RAM: 128 MB, 512 MB recommended
- Disk space: 200 MB
- For remote administration, a TCP/IP network connection with a static DNS name/IP address is required
- For high-loaded systems, please contact your McAfee representative for information on setting up multiple-server implementations
Port Control client
Operating systems
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
Hardware requirements
- CPU: Pentium-compatible processor
- RAM: 256 MB
- Disk space: 5 MB
- For remote administration, a TCP/IP network connection is required
