DeviceLock

Firewalls and antivirus software are no defense against acts of data theft and corruption from within your organization at local endpoints. You don't have to be an administrator to connect a small digital camera, MP3 player, or flash memory stick to the USB and begin uploading or downloading whatever you want. If you are a system administrator, you know you can't manage such device-level activity via Group Policy.

Using DeviceLock, network administrators can lock out unauthorized users from USB and FireWire devices, WiFi and Bluetooth adapters, CD-Rom and floppy drives, serial and parallel ports and many other plug-and-play devices. Once DeviceLock is installed, administrators can control access to any device, depending on the time of day and day of the week.

The USB white list allows you to authorize only specific devices that will not be locked regardless of any other settings. The intention is to allow special devices (e.g. smart card readers) but lock all other devices.

DeviceLock allows you to generate a report concerning the permissions that have been set. You can see which users are assigned for what device and what devices are on the USB white list on all the computers across your network.

DeviceLock provides a level of precision control over device resources unavailable via Windows Group Policy – and it does so with an interface that is seamlessly integrated into the Windows Group Policy Editor. As such, it's easier to implement and manage across a large number of workstations.

Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) is the 14th largest building society in the U.K. After investigation and testing, N&P's general manager, IT, David Matthewman, chose DeviceLock as N&P's preferred security software tool.