When laptops, USB drives and iPods leave the workplace, are they filled with corporate info? whether so, were those users authorized to siphon notes from the network? And whether those devices are lost or stolen, will sensitive goods be open to view?

Safend has issued Safend Protector v3.3 to help businesses eliminate these concerns. that version provides a number of additions and enhancements by previous versions, according to Safend, a provider of endpoint protection solutions.

New features include file shadowing, which allows administrators to be alerted to breaches by tracking and collecting copies that come in from or go out to storage devices; and enhancements to external encryption, so administrators can mandate encryption to external devices.

Terrence Brewton, a research analyst with Frost & Sullivan, is conducting a market study on data-leakage protection (DLP) products. He told us that there are more than 20 data-leakage prevention solutions on the market that compete with Safend, but

said Safend has an advantage by many of these.

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“The biggest thing is that they’re locking down endpoints. A lot of DLP products monitor documents leaving the gateway, such as via e-mail. Safend is addressing every kind of vector where documents can leave the enterprise, including thumb drives as well as e-mail,” he said.

Safend works by applying rules to different endpoints, Brewton said. “If somebody plugs in their USB device to download data, Safend is going to take a look at that knowledge and that person, and verify whether they can or can’t download it to a USB drive,” he explained. whether they do have permission, the goods will be encrypted and the user given a password to decrypt the info.

“That’s going to avoid the kind of problem we had with the guy from the division of Veterans affairs who had his laptop stolen,”…

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